The Danish school in Masaka builds mud house

Today, the Danish school was invited to Kibale Comunity Center, which is run by our Canadian friends Jeff & Shannon. The focal point of their work is a big school project for the area's poorest children, but beyond that, they have started various community projects. One of the projects is to build mud houses for families in need of a new house. A well built and planned mud house will survive for about 50 years, so it's a great gift for a family to get a new mud house. Today we helped build a mud house for a family whose existing house had halfway collapsed, so they really needed a new home. A school class from their school helped to build the mud house together with the Danish school, and UCC volunteers and some of the students from Douglas College, which we chose to invite to participate, as it is quite a fun experience to participate in building a house.

Salma, Esther and Mazzy started to "jog" mud

Before we came out to the mud house building site,  a local construction crew had built the house frame of sticks, so we just had to mix the soil with water, give it a good jog, form large blobs and put it on the skeleton

When the soil is to be transported from mud hole to the house, it is a great advantage to work as a conveyor belt, so mud-scoops goes from hand to hand

Avin and Rosa enjoyed this experience together

Finn and Elias enjoyed each others company

Emeli and Kathrine really worked hard (and I can inform you that it can is felt in the muscles the following day!)

Mud Throw - and it's not just for fun! In fact you do this when you need to "close the gaps". When all the mud is placed on the house, it has to dry for a few days, after which it is resurfaced by slapping mud mixed with cow pats on the entire building. It helps to strengthen the structure of the building.

Joel was hard-core mud house builder!

So the house is built - here is the team from the Danish school in Masaka

And the UCC team made up of Ruth, our 2 UCC volunteers and 2 interns from Douglas College, who are apprentices at the baby home

In addition to building a mud house today, our medical team was as usual on Fridays out at Sango Bay to treat the sick. Along with our four employees were an American and some Danish nursing students.

/RJ