domenica 6 ottobre 2013

Con el barro en el barrio

Hi!

I'm sitting on a sofa to enjoy the last hours of quietness. Yes because tomorrow I'm starting a new adventure: we go 3 days to a camping place on a beach with 35 students. As in every spots in the world, 35 adolescents spending two nights together, won't probably spend their nights sleeping in their bed, so we, teachers, are called to our duty. 

But facing this new experience, I want to tell show you the first step of a project we started in the "Barrio", the place where our students live. As you probably remember from my pictures, they live in barracks, which for us is difficult to call home. The problems is, they don't have whether the money nor the knowledge to build normal houses. This is maybe going to change. Mariana, one of the nun living here, met a man who might be able to make a change. He is a man who builds houses made of mud. Mud is something which is not missing at all, so we can start changing our enemy (the mud that invades all the barracks when it rains) in our best friend!

At the end of October we´ll have a 3 day course to learn how to build block of mud and the architect is then going to come with us a week later in the barrio to help us building the first walls and teach something more. We already started getting ready!

Piling up sand.
 








Everyone helps as he or she can! For the moment, we have mothers and children working hard for building their houses. The men need some more time to get convinced to lift their bottom from their chairs. 



Filtering



This is a house now...

This is how we would change the house above
  
And after some hours working hard, we all deserved our plate of spaghettis :)

Well, I'd better go to sleep now, because I won't sleep for the next two nights!

Have a nice week!

Bye!

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