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Beyond the End of the End of the Road

It’s a straight road from Gunung Sitoli, the capital of Nias, to Dusun 8 in Sahoya.  A dusun is a sub-village, or hamlet.  Just head south, resisting the urge to turn off at the airport, and keep going. The road is good and progress will be steady. Veer left after an hour and the road will deteriorate. But don’t lose heart. Keep going until you get to the other side of Sahoya and the road will keep deteriorating. And you’ll know it’s time to get out and walk when the road comes to an end. Don’t expect to stand wondering where the road comes to an end. It just stops, as surely as you have arrived at the end of the Earth, and are sheepishly looking over the edge.

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Gobik Community and SurfAid Complete Clean Water Project
SurfAid’s Mentawai Clean Water Program (CWP) team has completed construction of a clean water facility in the village of Gobik, on the island of Sipora. Gobik lies on the opposite side of the peninsula from Katiet and is close to the famed Lance’s Left.

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Classroom to the Community
“Gunung Sitoli is a bit different from Melbourne,” according to Endah Setyaningsih.  And she should know. She is a master of understatement, and is also a Master of Public Health, which she recently received from Deakin University. Melbourne to Nias is not a common route for Indonesian Masters graduates. After finishing her degree, Endah could have gone back to Jakarta and chilled out with her friends, hoping for a nice corporate job in a nice corporate office. But Endah wanted the opportunity to make use of her Masters Degree, and that explains how she ended up in Nias, as SurfAid’s Monitoring Officer.

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