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David Bainbridge and I received this email from Pedro in
Peru, can you gals and guys assist him?
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.
Salaams The Straw Wolf
http://strawbale.archinet.com.au
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.
61 2 6927 6027
Pedro's email follows:
Hi Earthling!
I´m a peruvian man who´s developing an
ecological project in my country. We are trying to create an ecological
consciousness that most Peruvians doesn´t have. One of our concerns is he
ecological building. We have lots of adobe constructions here, but they aren´t
made with a proper technic so they tend not to last many years. Most Peruvian
can´t 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 isn´t so expensive, but most people doesn´t know how
it´s made or think it´s too expensive (or can´t afford it).
Natural construction technics like cob, rammed
earth, lime, straw bales, etc aren´t 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.
We have
lots of hard time trying to raise founds and all of our expenses are from our
pockets. We can´t afford to buy other books and we don´t even have credit cards,
so that limits us even more. As you may know, Peru is a very poor country trying to
come out of it´s poverty, but in this raise, people tend to forget about the
ecology and put the progress before nature. We are trying to stop
this.
We have
also made contact with Carol Steinfeld and received ?The Composting System
Book?. Peru´s sewage system is very primitive, everything goes to the sea
unprocessed?
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.
This letter is a cry for help. We don´t want
money, we want to learn. We need books, tapes, files, links, anything that can
help achieve a better education. We aren´t 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 we´ll progress in
the right direction, the environmental friendly direction.
Thank you
very much for your time. If you can help with something, please answer this
mail. My address is:
Pedro
Carrillo
Junin 421, Miraflores
Lima 18, Peru
PEACE.
Together we can save the
planet!