Project L.O.V.E.: Day 4 - 9: Road Repairing

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Day 4 - 9: Road Repairing

In the early morning of Day 4, we headed to the nearby village road to perform repair work.

According to Auntie Esther, the road condition was so bad that no vehicle can drive in. Indeed, we saw with our own eyes. The soil road is wet and soft that any vehicle wheels will just get stucked in, even bicycle!

One by one, the trucks brought in soil. Our tasks are to level up the soil brought in and pile the soil hard. The process was rather tedious and tiring as we got to shovel the soil from the pile to a basket then bring it to the other low areas and using a thick-tree trunk 'pile-r' to firm the soil (close up the air spaces between the soil particles). Before that, we were supposed to remove the long thorny grass at the side of the road. The cutted grass is placed into low areas and piled up with soil. They believed the soil will be more firm with the grass fibres inside.

After a whole day of hard work, all of us were seriously very very tired! Glad that we do our part to construct the road!

On our way to our destination

Small puddles of water are being collected on the road

See how bad is it!

After briefing, let's get started!We need to clear the tall thorny grass as we reconstruct the road!
Shovel...
Shovel...
Shovel...
let's collaborate!
where's the basket?

More 'shovelling'
The girls join in to shovel!