Mud House

The mud house we saw while on our outing is typical of most people's houses in the area.  We've had the chance to see a few of them being built from time to time.

 This house belongs to the family of a man who recently passed away after a long illness.  His family was here at the hospital off and on for months.  It was fun to be able to see them in their own home and know that they are still doing OK.

Follow-Up pt 3

Once our patient was in her home, there was still one more thing that needed to be done.

The house was ready, but the outhouse still needed to be mudded.  We found some willing volunteers.

FIELD TRIP!
In place of our normal Thursday afternoon school reading time, followed by art class,
we headed out to the town to do some work. 

The structure was in place, and we just needed to pack mud between the sticks.

Our youngest volunteer shows off her muddy hands.

The kids worked hard, running back and forth between the mud pit and the outhouse with mud, then packing the mud into place to form the walls.

Ian had some girls giggling over him and everything he did.
They seemed to think he was really cute.
He was not amused.

This wall is almost done!

At the end everyone was quite a bit dirtier than when they started.
We got some interesting looks walking back home!

Follow Up- pt 1

This young lady was mentioned in one of our Random Saturday posts.
She is an Auca, abandoned by her family, with multiple medical problems.
One additional problem was that she had nowhere to live when she was able to leave the hospital.

This is the old house that is falling down and uninhabitable.

Mama Sarah hard at work on the new house.
It's made of sticks stacked to make a frame with mud in-between to fill in the spaces.

The kids came to watch all the fun.

Muddy feet

The house is almost complete, and Mama Sarah and two community health care workers will be able to follow her care at home.