Saturday 11 July 2009

Kyle and Rusty have started meeting with people from surrounding villages in hopes of creating a community of people who trust and love each other. This is a picture of a house we helped build for the village chief because his house fell apart in the last rainy season, but this one should be the last house he will ever have to rebuild. This is because we build it out of cob which is a clay, sand and straw mixture that becomes very hard and we will thatch his roof which can be good up to twenty years compared to the grass and plastic roofs that have to be annually replaced. It was such a good feeling to be able to help this community build this house for one of its members. this community gets together once a week to work on various community projects like building stoves for one another, building rabbit of goat cages, or just helping someone harvest their corn. so I hope all is well on that side of the pond and I love you all.

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