Day 4

Today we spent the morning working on the Habitat house. When I was working on it, it seemed to go really slow, but I think we got a lot done considering how high it is getting. Towards 12:00, we went to visit a Home Based Care lady, Grace, who is currently living in her mother-in-law's house with thirteen other people. She and her husband, Prosper, are building a new house of their own. They have eight kids of their own. We first visited where they were currently living, and then went to the one they have spent seven years working on. The house they share with her mother-in-law has two bedrooms and a sitting room. In the new one they are still working on, they have four bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a sitting room, a playroom, a toilet room, and a bathroom. They need 60-70 more sheets of corrugated metal to finish the roofing. It looks like a mansion compared to the surrounding houses in the area. When we got back to the work-site, Daniel, a man from Jubilee, took us to Kaps so Mom could get the claim slip. I stayed back with Lisa Blystra, while Mom went with Daniel to the airport. The officer that needed to sign the slip was at lunch so she couldn't turn it in, but Nicole, a member of the Habitat team, had her baggage lost along the way and it had come so they took that with them. While they were gone, I got freshened up and did some homework. When they returned, Mom took a shower and we waited for Martha and Agness to come and pick us up for an appointment at Seeds of Hope International Partnerships (http://www.sohip.org/). What they are doing is really inspiring and creative. They recycle everything, and come up with the most bizarre things out of ordinary, everyday materials. When we left there, we went to QuickSave to pick up some sweets. They were out of ice cream, so I got a croissant instead. We went back to Kaps and had dinner, then we all gathered to review the day.