Housing Update
Since the start of our trips your funding has
supplied over 90 houses. That’s 90 families with a solid
house that stays dry in the rainy season.
This year we received a couple of substantial donations
for houses and it was a delight to
see these houses built and the smiles of the families
inside.
It did mean
however that every house we visited we had
to have coffee, a long traditional process that can take
an hour or so. The coffee is very
much like the Ethiopian people, strong and dark, so after
visiting several houses in one day
our caffeine intake was very high.
As mentioned in the
summary report the increase in prices has impacted on the
houses. The cost of a house is now about £200, materials have doubled and the increase
in food prices has meant that labour costs have
also risen.
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