Kratie

6:30am we were down for breakfast before our briefing for the day. We took a 45min drive up the dusty roads of Kratie to Ko Ki village where our project site was located.

A lot different to our previous site, we were in the middle of the bush and unloaded our tools to take them a few hundred meters through the scrub to where our new build site was.
There were a few foundation blocks and beams in place which RAWimpact had placed to outline the house. The family’s existing house was basically a pile of sticks next to our job site with a single bowed piece of tin where a smouldering pot of something was being heated.

The previous "house"

The previous “house”

Our team was broken into small groups for each section to set work on a different part of the house.
Some were making the bamboo walls from scratch while other groups set to work building the base of the house and starting on a great set of stairs.

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It was a warm day with no natural shade so we rigged up a tarp so groups could do some work in the shade when possible. The gentle breeze helped keep us cool as we worked but we definitely went through the bottled water!!

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Making the bamboo walls

Making the bamboo walls

Lunch cooked by local ladies

Lunch cooked by local ladies

We sheltered for lunch in the Community Centre which was built by a team of RAW volunteers only the week before.

The team worked amazingly to accomplish what we did in the first day. After some practise on the previous house, and people getting familiar with the process and tools, the house has started to shape up nicely!!

 

Apologies for the delay in getting the last couple of posts up. There is no signal on the job site which leaves only time when we get back to the hotel to get something up when we have some time. Also I’ve been told that there are a bunch of typing mistakes in my posts, so I’m going to blame my phone’s autocorrect for that – thanks Hannah for proof-reading this before I posted it!! 🙂

5 thoughts on “Kratie

  1. I do hate auto correct! Look at ma girl go with that chainsaw!! No LOL about it!

  2. What an amazing job you guys have done to construct this house. You are truly changing the world!

  3. Dave, you and the team are doing an awesome job. The updates are really great. We really appreciate them. Keep up the great work. Regards Mark

  4. Thank you for the updates. They are fantastic. I am so proud of the work being done.

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