Half day's work

Today is Friday, and the local Indonesian workers, being of the Islamic faith, had to go for their prayers in the afternoon. Therefore, we were only required to work in the morning. We removed the wooden mould at land plot #118 and found that the cement which we had poured in yesterday was already all dry. We then assisted the home-owner to cut even more steel bars, and bent more steel rings to be used as vertical reinforcement columns. The home-owner himself was busy making the wooden moulds for those same vertical columns.

At some point in the late morning - one tended to lose track of time in idyllic Tibang - the village chief came up to me and extended his warmest welcome and thanks for the work Team Pembantuan had been doing in his community. He had not been able to come meet us earlier in the week, as he had been tied up with supervising the reconstruction of a local school and a clinic elsewhere in the village. Many thanks to Adele, who served as our interpretor. :)

Hock Teck and Aan bending steel rods into rings, while in the background, wooden planks were being fixed around the vertical steel reinforcements

The home-owner and a fellow skilled labourer were busy at work, getting the vertical columns ready