Yesterday afternoon the team started in on the second cement floor of the day, however, this required a different type of work, and it took everyone to get it done. Even Carly and I got into the act of hauling sand and dirt to the house site. The woman with the bucket is Melanie and it is her house where the floor will be poured. (see photo of her with the bucket) She is standing in front of her house. I didn't get a picture of her husband.
The fact that her house is not next to the road, but on a side of a hill, makes this job more difficult. Hauling sand and dirt down the hill to her building site was exhausting for all of us. There was one guy who didn't seemed to be phased by the work. (see the photo of the little boy with the pail on his head) This little guy went up and down the hill with a pail of sand, outworking all of us. He couldn't be more than 5 years old. Wow! He was there to help us, and this is not his house. We couldn't figure out who he was related to in the community.
This community is Don Bosco, a barrio of Barahona. It is a huge community in the hills above Barahona. COTN's school there is the largest of the COTN schools, grades K-8, double-shifted, approx. 900 students I think.
The heat was turned up on us yesterday, as the rain is gone and temps. above 88 degrees with huge humidity are back.
Yesterday afternoon the team started in on the second cement floor of the day, however, this required a different type of work, and it took everyone to get it done. Even Carly and I got into the act of hauling sand and dirt to the house site. The woman with the bucket is Melanie and it is her house where the floor will be poured. (see photo of her with the bucket) She is standing in front of her house. I didn't get a picture of her husband.
The fact that her house is not next to the road, but on a side of a hill, makes this job more difficult. Hauling sand and dirt down the hill to her building site was exhausting for all of us. There was one guy who didn't seemed to be phased by the work. (see the photo of the little boy with the pail on his head) This little guy went up and down the hill with a pail of sand, outworking all of us. He couldn't be more than 5 years old. Wow! He was there to help us, and this is not his house. We couldn't figure out who he was related to in the community.
This community is Don Bosco, a barrio of Barahona. It is a huge community in the hills above Barahona. COTN's school there is the largest of the COTN schools, grades K-8, double-shifted, approx. 900 students I think.
The heat was turned up on us yesterday, as the rain is gone and temps. above 88 degrees with huge humidity are back.
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