Cleaning Up

Syd and some of the middle schoolers show off the trees that they planted.

A group picture at the Indonesian school.

Kade and his buddies give the thumbs up.

Some of the litter we were able to clean up.

Kathi helping one of her Kindergartners.

This cleanup is fun!

The after picture.

For Earth Week our school decided to do a service project with a local school. We purchased 20 trees, 2o large garbage cans and a lot of gloves in order to clean up a local school and the adjacent park. This is the first time our school has done something off camp with another school ever.

There is an Indonesian school system on camp but that is reserved for children of Chevron/BP MI. The school we partnered with is just outside of our main gate and we all drive by this park every time we head into the city. It is always covered in garbage as people do not use garbage cans here very often. As you can see in the picture we were able to get it cleaned up pretty well. We also have paid for the new garbage cans to be emptied by a sanitation company for the next year so we hope they are put to good use.

The kids worked really hard and it was great to get to work along side the Indonesian students. There were lots of smiles and excitement when were all working. It was funny because most of the Indonesian elementary kids did not pick up the trash but picked up the leaves and twigs and put those in the garbage bags. I guess a little more education on litter control is in order.