The project programme

The modest costs of some $US 5000 (£2500) were spent from 2004 onward, first on cutting and storing the reeds, and making mud bricks, then in a tourism workshop (April 2005), and finally in the house and boat shelter construction. The boat and shelter were finished by 21st June 2005 for a big Winter Solstice ceremony in Irohito, with visits from indigenous Uru communities from Peru and other parts of Bolivia. The tourist houses were completed in November 2005, ready for the first visit of 15 Norwegian journalism students to the Irohito community, in an intercultural project coordinated with ILCA.