Our job – as a team of 12 volunteers – was to build the second part of a wall around 3 water tanks. The wall would be hand built, 2.5m high, 15m long and 1m thick. Surely, enough to stop a 6000kg elephant from breaking through to get to the tank water inside.
After 3 days of really heavy, physical, back breaking work we were 2/3rds of the way to completion. Our secret agent Tobi a 190cm towering man from Cologne and the team work of the rest of the chain gang working tirelessly irrespective of age, sex or nationality. An amazing achievement. The wall will be completed next week.
Yes, this is me hand mixing cement in a wheel barrow!
Builders hands….
5 days of no showering…
Summary of the week
- Elephants seen zero, 0 ( not expected)
- Electric sockets, lights, chargers 0
- Gas used 0
- Cars seen 0
- Planes seen 0
- Internet 0
- Phones 0
- Amount of noise 0
- Number of humans seen outside the group 2
- Wall built 1.8m x 15m
- New friends made 16
Comments
4 responses to “Africa Unplugged Part 3”
What an amazing feat, sounds like such hard work but great cameraderie.
Bet your glad you had a manicure before you left 🙂
Hope the back is holding up, & you have a shower soon….
There’s something primal fantastic about being dirty and tired from working the land and deeply gratifying to collaboratively work this week way with others.
I love seeing the roughed up hands and the beautiful smile!
❤
When you get home you should be able to keep those Wild Boar out and that nasty fox as a fence should be easy after building that wall. Well done little Sis.