The 1st Habitat for Humanity Build

For the first Habitat Build, we travelled to village south of Colombo to help build a house. We had to fill in a foundation and build the walls for a new toilet. To fill up the foundation, we shovelled dirt from this mound into these large pans which we then carried to the foundation and dumped it in. The foundation was about 6x4 feet in area and about 2 feet deep, and although we initailly thought that this job would be easy, it was extremely tiring. My arms hurt and had to take a lot of breaks, and not only did we have to fill up the hole, we had to spread out the dirt evenly.