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<P class=MsoNormal>G ' day Balers on all the lists</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>David Bainbridge and I received this email from Pedro in
Peru, can you gals and guys assist him?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I am on the road as of tomorrow and we are in the middle of a
workshop here in Ganmain so I cannot get to all the emails until I return from
Trangie in a couple of weeks.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Salaams The Straw Wolf</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://strawbale.archinet.com.au">http://strawbale.archinet.com.au</A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>NO apologies for the cross posts these people need our help;
so let us help them. That's what straw bale is for me personally.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>61 2 6927 6027</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Pedro's email follows:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Hi Earthling!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Iīm a peruvian man whoīs developing an
ecological project in my country. We are trying to create an ecological
consciousness that most Peruvians doesnīt have. One of our concerns is he
ecological building. We have lots of adobe constructions here, but they arenīt
made with a proper technic so they tend not to last many years. Most Peruvian
canīt even afford to have an adobe house so we live in very cheap shelters made
of what ever we can find, like cardboard, strawmats (not bales), triplay, etc. e
know hat building wih adobe isnīt so expensive, but most people doesnīt know how
itīs made or think itīs too expensive (or canīt afford it).
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Natural construction technics like cob, rammed
earth, lime, straw bales, etc arenīt practiced here because nobody knows about
them. The group of young people I represent have received two books: The
Cobbers Companion from Cob Cottage Company and The Cob Builders Handbook from
Becky Bee (Groundworks).They have given us their books because they know about
our projects and want to help us develop them. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">We have
lots of hard time trying to raise founds and all of our expenses are from our
pockets. We canīt afford to buy other books and we donīt even have credit cards,
so that limits us even more. As you may know, </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix =
st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
/><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Peru</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> is a very poor country trying to
come out of itīs poverty, but in this raise, people tend to forget about the
ecology and put the progress before nature. We are trying to stop
this.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">We have
also made contact with Carol Steinfeld and received The Composting System
Book. Peruīs sewage system is very primitive, everything goes to the sea
unprocessed
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The
education in our country is so bad that most people are analphabets and many
schools are so deteriorate that the walls and roof falls down (many school
students have died with this accidents). We have no decent librarys or
bibliotecs. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">This letter is a cry for help. We donīt want
money, we want to learn. We need books, tapes, files, links, anything that can
help achieve a better education. We arenīt looking for any kind of books and
information right now, we need books about natural constructions, soils, roofs,
site work, materials, foundations, drainage, plastering, how to build composting
toilets in site, etc. Anything you have that can help us will do. It could be
second hand, fotocopies, or new. We need more sources so that weīll progress in
the right direction, the environmental friendly direction.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Thank you
very much for your time. If you can help with something, please answer this
mail. My address is:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN>Pedro
Carrillo<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Junin 421, Miraflores<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lima 18, Peru</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">PEACE.
Together we can save the
planet!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>