September 2011
WiFi interenet connection is available now at DinDang Eco lodge, If you wish you bring your own notebook.
July 2011
With the 6 french students from ITECH engineering school in France came for one month to volunteers helped us with the toilet building. It was very hard work to carried all stones needed for the walls, mixed cements, dag the shit holes ^^, builded the walls, cutted bamboos and structured the roof. And many more to thanks for their helps. In September we will have a group of student who will stay for 3 months, we will finish it!!
February 2011
The small clayhouses are now ready for living. We'll do some maintenance this month and from March on, volunteers will live in a real clayhouse! The restaurant and kitchen will be used by our volunteers then too.
The big job for now: showers and bathrooms.
January 2011
DinDang's office and dormitory is progressing. Thank you every volunteers.
This building will be used as an office down stair and up stair is dormitory for about 4-5 people.
December 2010
The finished stone wall. Great works of all.
stone wall
November 2010
The stone wall is being build behind the small houses. It is to protect the ground from sliding and create and nice flat sitting area on the top. It is a hard work but its a good work!! Thank you guy.
July 2010
Two houses are being build. The hard work of summer group.
February 2010
We finished the foundations of the three new houses and after making tons of adobe bricks, we are now starting on the walls. Many volunteers have come to join us and the work is progressing rapidly.
January 2010
DinDang tool-shed. Builed out of bamboos by David from Holland.
* We have attached some new interesting video links. Please have a look at them.
January 2010
The kitchen building is finished! Recently we are continueing with three more small living houses.
December 2009
The beautiful bamboo benches in front of the kitchen are done by Adul, they are nice and strong!
We worked on building the kitchen sinks from river stones, included water release systems around it. It is nearly ready to be use!
A birthday from Marie (UK volunteer )this week and we had a nice evening all together. Thanks for her delicious cake!! She said that this birthday is one of the nicest in her life!!
December 2009
Last week DinDang and all the volunteers were working on the kitchen floor. For many people it was the first time experience in working with cement, and so it was a bit physically hard for somepeople. We did some cleaning around and placing tables, etc. Futhermore, we will need to work on water and electricity systems to be completed.
November 2009
Dindang and the volunteers have built two huts, intented to welcome worshops.
Both of them are around the kitchen.
June 2009
DinDang Kitchen progress
DinDang Centre is building a kitchen where will be used as well as a meeting place for the future. There is an agreement together with TCDF that when the building has finish TCDF volunteer will be using on temporaly based.
The Building is halfly with stones and clay, the roof we used leafs.
The building has planed to finish in August.
Natural building workshop for UCLA student
On June, 30th - 2nd July 2009 DinDang Natural Building Centre will host a group of 33 people from University in Los Angerles for two full days. The workshop will take place in Paksong, phato, chumphon province, in coorperation with TCDF, Runs N Roses, and local hosting people.
May 2009
DOT Development Organization In Thailand
In 2008 DOT networking organization had founded to help promotes, connects people and organisation on social, education, evironment feilds, etc.
DinDang Natural Building is actively partnership of DOT.
Natural building workshop on 28th May
On 28th of May 2009, DinDang Natural Building Centre will organize a natural building workshop for a period of one day. This workshop will contains of natural building theory and practical learning. Thereafter, The trainning documents will be used for coming group in June.
April 2009
What are we doing? DinDang and Volunteers are working hard to completed the second small clay house and a kitchen. You can follow the work we have done by checking the site ;)