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• Regrettable trips – Putussibau

  Blog: See Simi Travel Blog - 6 December 2010

  “It’s probably an allergy to MSG, stop eating instant noodles all the time” This is what I was told after two weeks of feeling really under the weather: high fever running for days, stomach flu, aches and pains, delirium!  It wasn’t until the rash broke out on my face and hands that I thought maybe I should seek medical attention. An MSG allergy?  Really?  How could it have no connection to the 12 days that I had spent deep in the jungle of the Putussibau district of West Kalimantan, Indonesia? The trip was one that I had anticipated for months.

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• The JMM Cooperative – Jasa Menenun Mandiri

  Blog: See Simi Travel Blog - 30 August 2010

  The driver’s helper asked us to bow our heads in silent prayer before we left the “bus station” in Pontianak to take an 11 hour bus ride into Borneo. We were then each handed a box with a bun/danish and some water, and off we went to Sintang, where I will spend half of my time in Indonesia. My room is upstairs in the office, and other employees live here too. This is pretty common for NGOs in Indonesia, maybe even in Asia.

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• PRCF Indonesia is a Changemakers Finalist!

  Blog: See Simi Travel Blog - 7 June 2010

  People Resources Conservation Foundation (PRCF) Indonesia is committed to the conservation of natural resources and sustainable socioeconomic development, promoting the participation of local communities while enhancing their institutional capacities and revitalizing their cultural identity. (www.prcfoundation.org). Recently PRCF Indonesia was selected as one of 10 finalists from over 260 solutions entered in the Women | Tools | Technology Challenge.

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