Lame Duck - Loving It!

What do you do when you have trained your replacement? Go on a Service Project!

We met at the church parking lot at 6:30 am. Ward members and Quezon City Missionaries

Walked over to the job site and picked up the yellow "helping hands" pennie for everyone

Most of the work is done by hand - not a lot of equipment to move dirt and such around

Each of the sites need the dirt levelled and shifted in order to pour cement foundations - I get the feeling that the cement will be mix up on the site and "poured' from buckets Note lady to the left with a crutch and shovel.

I worked on sweeping the debris and cement dust build up on the new sidewalks. All debris from the constructing has to be sacked up and carried out by hand - I wonder where it goes?

The project is for the blind and lame and replaces their lean-to homes. 

In order for the participants to qualify for their home they need to give 1000 hours of work in the construction. So ladies with crutches and a shovel work along side of us. Little girls and boys sweep up debris and garbage and bag it up. One lady continuously sweeps the piles of rock and cement dust off the sidewalks. Children work and play all around us.

Crutch and a shovel - amazing what can get done

Sister Lorraine and I spent the day together - so we started out with the Service project and then went on visits after

Homes of those still waiting

All along the street we walked past blind and lame people going about life. The homes in this neighbourhood or mostly shacks put up - the temporary homes - one good wind could blow them away. Only cement homes will last.