Habitat for Humanity May 21, 2011

The Habitat for Humanity we went to Moratuwa for a build. The day started off as we went around and met all of the owners of teh property and they told us about the issues they are all facing involving the ways that they live. In Sri Lanka customs are very important so before we started to build anything we had to light the customary oil lamp. After this we began to get to work starting off making concrete; the people in these areas can't afford the store bought concrete so they make their own out of sand, concrete, rocks and water. Once all of the mixing was done we started to spread it evenly across the floor and walls as a foundation of a kitchen. In doing this i worked collaboratively with the other students and homeowners and persevered to help the people of the Tsunami affected areas. But despsite all of the work we started off doing and had originally intended to do we were forced to leave early because there was no more work to be done.