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The team
The ditch-diggers!
The site
Laying rebar
Building a retaining wall to stop mudslides
Main St Barrio Alto Rosario
Waiting for a home
A meeting with the town elders to discuss the project
Downtown Barrio Alto Rosario
The always present police. They didn't appreciate me taking this picture
The kids of the local town elder who is helping us build
Downtown Barrio Alto Rosario
These people invited me to join them on their shady porch
These people invited me to join them on their shady porch
Waiting for a home
Patricia (architect) showing me the toilet (bring your own water)
A makeshift kitchen
Inside the home of a displaced family
I don't think this one is going to be standing much longer
Waiting for a home
A room with a view...
Umberto the Architect and Project Manager
Boy waiting for a home
Cooking plantains hacked off with a machete
Downtown Barrio Alto Rosario
Caltrans workers in training...
You gotta love having an open sewer run under your bedroom...
I miss my little nephew Ian...
Girls waiting for a home
"This starter home needs a little TLC"
These are the houses we're replacing
Girls from a displaced family in the barrio Alto Rosario
These are the houses we're replacing
Little girl from a displaced family in the barrio Alto Rosario
There are so few books here that they gather to have encyclopedias read to them
There are so few books here that they gather to have encyclopedias read to them
Edgar Alzate, Habitat Colombia Country Manager
One rock and I'm exhausted...
I've never been so excited to have a truck full of rocks arrive!
Umberto (with the hat) - architect and project manager
"Exactly how square do these things need to be?"
Bending rebar
Laying rebar
The site
The non-square segments are the ones I made...
Please don't poop in my fresh concrete!
Rush hour traffic
I always wondered where those old tires went...
Mototaxis are the preferred way to get around town
There's no water or electricity here but somehow the managed to get Mission Impossible III
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