Ecobrick Namibia

Sean and Robyn Rӧhm have returned to Namibia where they used to work for the MEFT more than 30 years ago. Having run their own business in tourism and hospitality (Yellowwood Forest in the Eastern Cape coast) since leaving Namibia they set up and been involved in number of Education and environmental projects. They have been involved in Nature conservation all this time and their specialist fields are as facilitators in Environmental education. Waste management became an area of interest due to having to manage, sort and dispose of the waste generated at their resort. Since 2018 they have become increasingly concerned about microplastics coming from single use plastics that are not recyclable and so became involved with Ecobricks.

Ecobricks.org  is the global ecobrick alliance with which they are affiliated, that make, train and facilitate workshops in ecobricks as a solution to sequestering single use plastic OUT of the environment. Out of harms way. Both Sean and Robyn are passionate about green buildings and their resort was entirely build out of 2nd hand building materials, local rock, wattle and daub and cob (a mixture of mud and straw) In collaboration with Stone Valley Environmental management facility since December 2023, where they plan and facilitate education outreach, they now have a venue for building with ecobricks collected by individuals and schools.

They will teach how to use ecobricks to build raised garden beds to plant food, furniture modules, crafts etc BUT their ultimate goal is to build a chapel. The Folly Chapel. This project, for which more than 9000 ecobricks had been collected, the plan drawn and approved, was shelved during covid and now having emigrated back home to Namibia and in collaboration with Stone Valley, is a dream very much alive.