Each house is rectangular, about 5 metres by 6 metres, and is supported on wooden stilts about half a metre high. Walls are made of woven bamboo and roofs of coconut fibre. Each house has a cooking room with an open fire and three other rooms used as bedrooms or sitting rooms. There is very little furniture and people sleep on the floor. The only piece of furniture in the village leader's house is a television.
Food is grown in and around the village.
People keep goats, chickens, ducks, water buffaloes and cows and there are three fish ponds near the river. Small cubicles on the edge of the fish ponds are used for washing and as toilets. Small animals are penned in cages above the fish ponds and both human and animal waste filters into the fish ponds. Secondary Teaching and Learning Units is part of the Access Asia series, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs through the Asia Education Foundation.