VOLUNTEERS have not only assembled a greenhouse but provided the next step towards sustainability for a remote Nepalese community.
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It took the volunteers five days to build the large greenhouse at Mera Primary School at the remote village of Kharikhola in the Everest region.
The Rotary Club of Port Macquarie Sunrise project took seven club members and five partners and friends to Nepal.
Project coordinator Kerrie Wood said the team achieved its goal under difficult conditions.
"The teamwork was exceptional and we have provided the village, and the children, with the next step to sustainability, the next opportunity to break the poverty cycle that everyone within remote areas are locked into purely because of where they are situated," she said.
Ms Wood said the volunteers were taken right out of their comfort zone but they worked beautifully as a team.
The Rotary club has supported the school for over a decade.
The greenhouse will extend the growing period, with produce used in the lunch time food program, and give villagers the chance to develop a small cottage industry down the track.
It was a two-day walk in and out of Kharikhola, and volunteers walked one hour each way to and from the school every day. The team was treated to a celebration ceremony at the end of their stay which brought together monks and the villagers.
They ended the trip with a seven-day trek.