After flying into Kota Kinabalu on Saturday, I was off on another plane with Ben and Margaret on Sunday night to fly to Sandakan. We visited a school on a palm oil plantation near Sandakan on Monday. This is what a palm oil plantation looks like, with an occasional water buffalo to haul the wagon of palm oil.
This is what palm oil looks like after they cut it out of the tree. I had no idea palm oil is such a booming business. It is quite sad that the rain forests and jungles of Borneo are being wiped out to make room for the palm oil plantations.
The palm oil plantation we visited is called Arus Sawit. The plantation workers live in these homes.
We went to the plantation school to present each child with a back pack and other school supplies. The workers on most plantations are Indonesian and the children can't go to school unless they have papers, and most of them don't.
The woman in the left of this picture is Kathryn. She does amazing work getting these Indonesian kids educated.
They sang and danced for us.
Ben and Margaret presented maps, shovels, soccer balls, and other equipment to their school on behalf of Latter-Day Saint Charities.
They called up each child one by one to get a back pack.
They were so excited to get their school kits and hygiene kits, especially the toothbrushes. How many times have I been in a ward where we put together hygiene kits and school kits. It was amazing to see children actually open these kits that the church provides.
Beautiful!
After meeting the children and giving them their back packs, we were treated to a lunch. It was such a great day to see first hand the humanitarian work going on in Malaysia.
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I notice that no one is wearing shoes in the school. Why?
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