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The wall pillars are ready. The next step is to insert bamboo poles as intermediate elements, but they must be treated beforehand. Because bamboo is on the menu of some small crawling animals that love it for its sugar content. This can be remedied by treatment with boron salts, which are not really toxic, but … Read more

The start after the Corona construction stop is delayed due to continuous and heavy rainfall. There are no paved roads leading to our project site yet, therfore accessing it is very difficult at the moment. Unfortunetely the truck with a delivery of wall stones got stuck… Fortunately, there were many hard-working helpers who picked the … Read more

The corn grows and ripens! It’s a win-win situation: A local family uses the project site for corn and cassava cultivation during the construction stop. The harvest gives them food and income. While farming, they care for the land and keep it clean of weeds. This saves us expenses for clearing the land again. The … Read more

Rainy season and Covid-19 force a construction stop: In the meantime, we release the project site temporary to the “locals” for corn cultivation.

Stone on stone: The property wall is built.

The wildly overgrown land is cleared and prepared, building materials are organised and transported to the project site. Blocks are moulded and trenches for the wall foundation along the property boundaries are dug. All by muscle power and manual labour of the local workers!