Gavin Edward Birch rose earlier than sunrise. He liked to look at the horizon, the thin line between sky and sea, witnessed the first light of sunrise. "I can not live without the beach," he said.
He was also the beach that Gavin back to Lombok after his first visit in 1984. He fell in love with the beauty of Lombok, although the beauty was covered with trash. He decided to reside in Lombok and changed his name to Abdullah Husin.
People do not know the name, they knew him as "crazy foreigner" (bule gila), a man who has toured the Lombok beaches to pick up trash and recycle. The people found strange that a stranger had scavenger-like tendencies.
He collects garbage along Batu Layar route to Senggigi Beach. The separation of recyclables from non-recyclables, he turned organic waste into fertilizer, which he sold to a florist, and recyclables were sold to him and his family to earn a living.
The local government supported programs that included cleaning mosques, beaches, roads and villages. His love of the kind conducted in a quest to make Lombok a cleaner and greener place. Gavin Birch devoted 25 years of his life trying to achieve it. He died in 2010 and the successor of his mission, his son Abdul Aziz Husin, aspires to be an organization that will manage the cleanup activities.
"It will not be an easy path to follow," said Abdul Aziz, recalling the commitment of his father, despite the insults and low family income. In the long term, Abdul Aziz plans to have a model area, which will show the public the direct effect of looking after the environment. the organization he plans to build will host the dream of his father in educating people about the environment, providing more places for the waste and the management of volunteers.