Girls carrying bricks to building site
On Saturday, May 15, about 30 orphans, 15 widows, and 5 brick layers met out at the PHC widow garden for a work day on our first building project undertaken since the PHC orphan center was complete in 2007. While the girls (and some of the boys) carried bricks from 400 yards away, where the boys made and burnt them last summer, the boys were moving dirt and helping to unload the heavy bricks from off the heads of the girls. They all worked hard and made it look like so much fun!!
What started out to be a project to build a simple veranda-type structure to provide shade for widows has turned into a project that will achieve many other purposes as well. When completed, this structure will have a large, open (but covered) portico where the ladies can sit during the heat of the day, a second sitting area inside the house-like
Women carrying bricks to the boys
structure, a storage room, and a small closet-sized room where the manstanding guard over the garden will sleep.
This building will be a huge blessing to widow care providers of PHC orphans, who are assigned plots on the 40 acre widow garden to help provide food for their orphans. The challenging part is that this building will cost more than what we had budgeted so we are still in need of 5 gifts of $1000 to make up the difference. So, if you’re looking for a great ABF or small group project…
Lord willing, the building will be up at least enough to provide shelter from the sun’s rays by early June when long days out at the garden start.
Widows by the shelter