Construction
Most rural areas of Africa often lack proper infrastructure and very few offer the possibility of an education past high school, which often leads to high unemployment rates and a lot of competition for part time unskilled labour jobs that do not pay a living wage.
Buying bricks for construction often means travelling hundreds of kilometres and making special delivery arrangements, or make your own cement bricks as most people do because the closest hardware store does stock cement.
Those who are interested to learn to do construction are looking forward to receiving the brick press which Viri bought for the community driven project.
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Before we even had plans to start, some of the members from the community who are interested in construction asked us where we planned to store the cement we plan to work with because they cannot be left out in the open.
Four of them volunteered to help us build a temporary storage shed if we arranged materials and tools for them to work with, which we did and they got started as we started bringing it from the local supplier of the most basic materials and tools.
More people were interested to be involved than we needed. The community is so eager to help us get there sooner and shed was ready for floors to be laid, sides to be plastered and windows to be installed within 4 days.
With the shed almost done, there is much preparation that has to be done than funding the cement and other raw materials that will go into creating a training centre. Although there is a shed for bags of cement, plans have to be made for us as far as accommodation is concerned because it is in the bush, with all sorts of wild creatures you want to keep outside.