The Making of the Nature Hut

As you know from, past blog posts, I am a big fan of the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Nature Park. It is a truly wonderful place and we wanted to make a nice meeting space up there to encourage more use of the park.

Rainbow on our last day of work at the Nature Hut

In the third term, Nathan (one of the other cousins) and I worked to build a Nature Hut. We started September 12th, 2012 and finished October 17th, 2012.  We had the help of many of the maintenance workers, a team of 27 students, support of the directors and also help from various families and the environment club during Saturday Service.  We started dreaming of this project in second term and managed, with alot of hard work, to make it happen in the third term.  It wasn't always easy but with teamwork, Nathan and I managed to keep the momentum of the project going when we hit bumps along the way.

Nathan and I in the finished hut

This is our How to Make a Nature Hut PDF which has many wonderful pictures and the steps it took to get from start to finish.

We opened the Nature Hut on October 22, 2012 with the help of Anne Heyman, founder of ASYV.

Opening ceremony- photo by Steve

Anne cutting the ribbon- photo by Steve

Natural building team at the opening ceremony-photo by Steve

Natural Building team with their certificates of achievement- photo by Steve

The girls in my family who were part of the Natural Building team and Mama Annociata

We also had the closing staff meeting for informal education at the Nature Park on November 1, 2012

End of year staff meeting at the Nature Hut

Nathan and Miki helping Mama Emerthe on the slackline

I can only hope that the Nature Hut will be well loved and used in the years to come!!

Sunset yoga at the Nature Hut