The core of our project is to provide authentic ethnic living with added comfort. Our guesthouses and rooms are thus built from recycled, renovated, reassembled old Rakhine houses. All building is done manually and it all starts with erecting the first pole. That first pole is blessed with “gold-water” (putting someone’s gold ring into a cup of water) and adorned with banana, flowers, greenery and a money-garland. Then, the volunteers lift the first pole and are offered Coconut rice for breakfast.