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Volunteers from Botanica Life are back from a three-week training course in Denmark.
30.10.2018
А training course on Sustainable Development took place in Brenderup, Denmark, in the period 23.09 -13.10.2018, as part of an Erasmus + project. Botanica Life Foundation was represented by Donka Apostolova – a volunteer at the foundation and Teodora Todorova – a volunteer at Botanica Life and a student at the Vocational School of Agriculture in Popovo.
The course was divided into three modules: clay theory and practice, woodworking, and learning and living in an Off- Grid House.
In the first module, the Bulgarian participants, together with participants from Poland, managed to build a working oven of clay. During the second part, they created a mobile home for hens, built according to all European requirements for free-range hens. The third module consisted of the completion of an OFF GRID HOUSE – a house totally independent from central water and electricity supply. The participants studied how solar panels functioned and how the rainwater was collected and filtered. They also took part in the process of assembling heat-conversion panels. (panels converting heat into electricity). This was the last element of the house which closes the cycle of generating electricity for the needs of a household and the distribution of heat and hot water.
During their stay in Denmark, the participants had the opportunity to visit two small farms of Mr Bjorn Wickstrom and Peter Mogensen, which were examples of sustainable farms, using the benefits of nature - sunlight and heat, wind, rain, the natural properties of the land concerned, as well as the recycling and / or purification of all "waste". They also visited an eco-village called "Friland", where all homes were built from recycled rags, newspapers or organic materials - shells, straw, clay and wood. The main idea of this type of village is that the people living in it are independent from banking institutions and they are building a healthy and democratic way of life in the community. The people in the village plan to build a large factory to provide the financial stability of the community and to help promote the implementation of sustainable environmental models for business and commerce.
The Bulgarian visit to Denmark opened new horizons for the participants and gave them the confidence that, step by step, by incorporating more people into a noble idea, the idea can turn into a reality.
