Mama Zola's Roof

This Saturday, we are going to rebuild Mama Zola's roof. Mama Zola is a warm and lovely African lady of about mid 40's who cooks here at Beautiful Gate. She has been living in her house for 5 years while waiting for the government to reassign her to the promised government housing - which is nothing, some families have been waiting 20 years! She has a son of about 18 and also lives with her cousing and till recently, her sister.
Anyway, she was mentioning that she wasn't looking forward to winter because her roof leaked so she was wet and cold throughout it. So Beth thought that we should have a look at it.
We walked through the township, Darby, Beth, Chiye, Jenny and I till we came to her house. The total size of it is 7 x 6 metres, which is actually fairly large for a township house. No wonder the roof leaked though, it was made from the left over peices of corrugated iron that they use on construction sites here. Green soap had been used to try and stop the leaking and a plastic tarpaulin over the whole roof, but the tarp also had holes.
So we drew up some plans, measured carefully (after the original African measurement that Chiye did using his feet!) and asked for donations. People have nearly enough to recover the whole roof in zinc, whichI worked out last night it should cost about $1800 rand (approx $300 Australian). So this saturday we bring ladders and hammers and hopefully can redo it in a day.
Some of Mama Zola's friends are also coming to help apparently. Hopefully it all goes well, because I've never built a roof before and I'm the one who worked out the construction plans.