Pics from the worksite and neighborhood

The team

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The ditch-diggers!

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The site

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Laying rebar

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Building a retaining wall to stop mudslides

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Main St Barrio Alto Rosario

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Waiting for a home

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A meeting with the town elders to discuss the project

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Downtown Barrio Alto Rosario

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The always present police. They didn't appreciate me taking this picture

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The kids of the local town elder who is helping us build

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Downtown Barrio Alto Rosario

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These people invited me to join them on their shady porch

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These people invited me to join them on their shady porch

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Waiting for a home

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Patricia (architect) showing me the toilet (bring your own water)

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A makeshift kitchen

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Inside the home of a displaced family

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I don't think this one is going to be standing much longer

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Waiting for a home

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A room with a view...

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Umberto the Architect and Project Manager

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Boy waiting for a home

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Cooking plantains hacked off with a machete

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Downtown Barrio Alto Rosario

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Caltrans workers in training...

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You gotta love having an open sewer run under your bedroom...

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I miss my little nephew Ian...

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Girls waiting for a home

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"This starter home needs a little TLC"

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These are the houses we're replacing

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Girls from a displaced family in the barrio Alto Rosario

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These are the houses we're replacing

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Little girl from a displaced family in the barrio Alto Rosario

2006-05-11T09:17:04-07:00

There are so few books here that they gather to have encyclopedias read to them

2006-05-11T09:18:25-07:00

There are so few books here that they gather to have encyclopedias read to them

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Edgar Alzate, Habitat Colombia Country Manager

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One rock and I'm exhausted...

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I've never been so excited to have a truck full of rocks arrive!

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Umberto (with the hat) - architect and project manager

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"Exactly how square do these things need to be?"

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Bending rebar

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Laying rebar

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The site

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The non-square segments are the ones I made...

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Please don't poop in my fresh concrete!

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Rush hour traffic

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I always wondered where those old tires went...

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Mototaxis are the preferred way to get around town

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There's no water or electricity here but somehow the managed to get Mission Impossible III

2006-05-11T11:26:05-07:00