So on Saturday we rocked up bright and early to rebuild Mama Zola's roof. Soon neighbours of hers arrived and we pulled off the plastic sheet that had been waterproofing her roof and started ripping up the current rusted corrugated iron. There were about 10 people on the roof, which I would have said couldn't support even a child on it!
Then we sat around in true African style and discussed for over an hour about where the new timber should go! We had only collected enough money to buy timber to replace one half of the building so we had to make do with re-inforcing the other side with scraps.
That's Lindsey playing with the kids. the neighbourhood turned out to watch.Amazingly the roof was nearly done by midday, so we had lunch all together in one of her neighbours house.
This is Kari on the roof siliconing it. She cut her thumb and bled all over it soon later.
This is everyone who worked on it, except for Andrea and Chiye who went home early. Mama Zola is in the middle and she is ecstatic.
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