This past weekend we took part in a wonderful day of house building! Together with the South African embassy staff, Habitat for Humanity, Star Alliance Airways and staff from Goldfields, we went out to a site in Quezon City called Bistekville I think. (I hope I got that right) What fun and what a cultural experience.
There is a huge need for proper housing in the Philippines. Habitat for Humanity is partnering with various government groups and others to get them built. These houses were going to be granted to teachers and to informal settlers. You can see some completed ones in the background.
Before we could get working, we all had to do some basic stretching and star jumps!? of all things. Very different way of doing things to back home, but still good :-)
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| Brad doing star jumps :-) |
Thanks to the SA embassy and the staff there for organising all of this and letting us know all about it. A lot of organisation went into putting it all together.
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| House 1 |
The guys did a great job. I was thankful that there were engineers/builders on site to help make sure our bricks were laid straight and correctly!
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| Brad, Hugo and one of the engineers. |
This was the team that built house number 1. Later on I got to gate crash some photo's...ha ha ha.
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| Team 1 |
So the white on my face is sun cream, and no, Brad was not about to dump that cement on my head :-)
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| Brad and me at the house build |
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| Check out the cemented up garden gloves :-) |
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| Brad, myself and Hugo |
At the end of the morning - it was too hot to go a whole day - all the Saffers had a pic together. And in case you're wondering, I was not daft enough to choose white pants, rather, they were the only ones that fit the dress code...yes, there was a dress code...no open shoes, no shorts...jeans were just not getting done, so the 3/4 pants were it.
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| The SA embassy staff and SAFFERS |
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