Day 4 - 9 : Roof Repairing

Wow! "We want to go up!" That was what all of us said... Our task for Day 5 was to repair roofs for the poor. We got a few zinc rooftops to replace the torn straw rooftops and even provided our service to take off the old one and put up the new one.

In the morning, we were just assisting the carpenters to do ground work of like cleaning up and having to shift tools up.

Should we be given a more challenging task like climbing up the roof?

Yes! In the afternoon, we were sent up the roofs to help out! We were all so excited but never have we neglect our safety in the midst of fun. See Prof Edmund's post here & here & here!

Reflecting upon this task, we are very fortunate to have a roof over our head which is not leaking!

We're spilt into 3 groups
(one of the groups on tuk-tuk to the furthest location) See how bad the roof is...
Imagine when rain come...
When rain come, a lot of pails will be needed for the massive leakage
One of the beneficiary families
The woman and her 7 children (2 more out in the fields to work)
Finding the house that we are helping
Sawing the wooden plank to be nailed onto the roof for the new zinc roof Learning how to make the 'dried coconut leaves' wall
Climbing up the roof
removing the strings that hold the tattered roof
Can you handle it?
How is it? Can manage?
Examining how much more to be done
Be careful!
We're doing fine!
Coming down to grab more zinc sheets for the roof
Waiting to pass the zinc sheets
cleaning up the 'debris'
the old planks too?
I think we've dirtied their cooking area?
Waiting for someone to pass them the zinc sheets
Beware!
Hold on to tight!
Climbing up!
Able to sit on the slim support!
Able to manage?
Holding the crowbar for?
The shiny new roof!
Taking with the beneficiary family
We too!
Reconstructing the whole house

The Group Pic!

Sherri