The Orphanage

Clearing the land

Below are a few photos showing the progress of the new building. Right now we are in the first stages of clearing and preparing the plantation. The next step will be building a fence to secure the building materials.

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The plantation has a path that the locals use as a walking road. This will have to be moved to the outer edges of the plantation.		Regrettably we needed to remove about 25 older trees. They will be replaced.
Volunteers and local hired hands work by hand to cut down and remove the trees.		The trees are removed by locals. They will most likely use the wood for firewood.
Oxen pull the wagon. Everything is done manually, which makes the task at hand slow. Labor is very affordable in Haiti.		Volunteers work to dig trenches.
If you look closely you can see the trenches trailing through the property. In the background are workers, which gives you a perspective of the size of the donated property.		Yet another trench.
We needed to construct a road to the orphanage from the main road, almost two blocks long.		As you can see, the hole for the cesspool is quite large. Keep in mind, this was all dug by hand.
One of the cesspools (we dug two).		At the end of the week, there was still room for church. The voluneers and several of the children in the orphanage pile into the truck and go to church.