The first house

Nearly all preparations are complete, the first team of volunteers arrive in a few hours and this pc keeps shutting down every few minutes.

Anyway, here is the first house that we are replacing:

Note the rickety stairs, the holes in the walls and the patchwork repairs.

Here's what it looked like yesterday:


And here's what has happened to the bits that were pulled down:


This is where the family are living until the new house is finished.

Wish I had time to tell you more of the sights, sounds, traffic, heat, the Mekong ferry and about why it's rotten to be suffreing from a bad cold when it's 30C in the shade.