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Where is Belize?... and why are we going there?

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How did all this start? Well, some years ago, unknown to me, MAC found a 'GoFundMe' site for something called Open Source Ecology which wanted to develop low-cost machinery for thrid world applications. This intrigued her (she has a strange 'bent' for construction stuff as epitomized by our trip to Las Vegas some years ago so that she could drive a bulldozer!!). The project developed over the years and she followed it until one night last summer, she lobbed a question to me "Do you want to go and volunteer to build a house in Belize?"  Without really thinking too much, I said,  "Sure".  I didn't really think it would happen, they wouldn't want 'oldies' like us. Well we signed up, we were the first, and they said "Great" so here we are. In the following posts you will find more than you ever wanted to know about the project and our progress. Right at the north end of Belize is the town of Corozal, Copper Bank wh