Three years after earthquakes destroyed villages in Lombok, Asia's first earthquake-resistant school has been built with recycled plastics.
"Our school, which used to be a temporary pop-up school, with plywood walls and dirt floors, has now become a beautiful, clean and tidy eco-block school," he said.
"The next morning, I was inundated with phone calls from people I know who live on Lombok, on the Gili islands, expats, locals — people I care about — whose homes had been destroyed." Together with Pelita Foundation, they set up 23 pop-up schools, which allowed 4,000 children to return to school. But it wasn't a permanent solution."The government spoke to us and asked if we could build permanent structures. I said, 'No, we can't, because all your permanent structures are in rubble.'
According to Mr Ward, this is the ideal material to rebuild permanent schools in earthquake-prone areas.
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