A recycling challenge...

When we returned from the UK last month, we were surprised to find a large building site here at the Karen Bible School.  The old wooden dormitory building, where the female bible school students stayed, had disappeared, and foundations were being dug for a new, concrete building.

This was a dormitory building... now a building site

 The following day, however, we realised that there was not one, but two construction projects under way at the bible school.  At the far end of the bible school site, a large wooden structure was being built.

New wooden building under construction

The bible school students at work on the building explained to us that they were building a new 'guesthouse', to accomodate visitors to the school.  They estimated the building could sleep about 30 people. 

And then they told me that, with the exception of the concrete foundation blocks, all the wood they were using had been stripped out of the old dormitory building.  Could this be the world's first fully recycled guesthouse?  Just don't enquire too closely about the health and safety regulations adhered to during construction!