Volunteers for Peace Building Walkways, Shelters and Trellises

A series of five summer work camps through began this past Monday at Vietnam Friendship Village.  International and Vietnamese young people have joined this volunteer effort to help the Organic Gardening Project and Friendship Village in general.

The current work camp is comprised of seven international and 15 Vietnamese volunteers. They are working every day at VFV, hauling bricks and sand, to aid in the effort to build brick walkways through the net house, gardens and orchards.

Over the last two weeks, we welcomed a group of volunteers from Volunteers For Peace (VFP) who came and did a lot of work for the project and for Friendship Village. The group included young people from Korea, the United States and Vietnam.

They thoroughly weeded the vegetable garden, net house and orchards and helped us to harvest beans, carrots, and leafy vegetables. They also lent their hand to catching caterpillars in the cabbage patch.

In addition, they spent two days moving sludge from the fish pond to the morning glory/Vietnam apple garden and planted more than twenty longan trees which they donated in the orchard and around the fish pond.

Renovation of the fish pond is now under way.

Dredging fish pond