Construction at La Fraternidad

My account of our time in Xela has been fragmented (as you may have guessed) because we did a variety of different things on each day - our day consisted of, in a general sense, construction, lunch at La Fraternidad, and visits to the womans groups and churches.

The above pictures are of a couple stages of the construction that we helped with. La Fratenidad is currently building a new addition in the yard of their lot so that they can hold their larger classes on the premises and save the money they would otherwise have to spend renting a place out. W assisted in digging the trenches within which the foundations of this new building would be placed, and so over the two mornings and one midday we spent our time digging and hauling dirt out to the pile in front of the building - which by the time we left was very impressive, and is probably much more so by now.

The trenches had to be about one meter five inches for the walls and at stages along the way a little deeper for the pillars, so with picks, shovels and buckets we all got to work. But the time we left it looked like the foundation digging was almost completed, and if I do say so myself (which I do) we made a great little construction team, and I think the real team appreciated our work- even if they may have been a little skeptical to start.

But we left La Fraternidad feeling good about our contribution, larger in spirit than works, and knowing that it was for an excellent cause.