In late March, twenty students and two staff from UNIS (the United Nations International School of Hanoi, Vietnam) accompanied Thom Henley and his team from In Touch with Nature Education to the Island of Siberut, in the Mentawai Islands, of the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. We chartered the boat D'Bora to get to the island and back, and stayed in the uma (traditional longhouses) while on Siberut

The purpose of this trip was to experience the ways of the Mentawai people, one of the last (near) neoloithic tribes still living their traditional lifestyle, in Asia. Our students raised money to purchase mosquito nets to donate to the local people. At the last minute, Vestergaard Frandsen donated a large amount of Mosquito nets, so we used the money we had raised to purchase first aid kits, which we also donated.

This website was put together by the students and staff of UNIS, after we returned from this "trip of a lifetime".

Enjoy

Wayne Hodgkinson
Teacher in charge