Our 7, Pablo and Claudio (a co-worker that coordinates
relief work) were up at 4 am and flew a domestic flight from Quito to Manta on
the coast. From Manta we were driven 2-1/2 hours to Simon Bolivar where we are
working at putting in latrines where another team will be building replacement
homes. We stay at a home that was rebuilt as a temporary structure after the
earthquake. People who lost their homes are living in temporary structures. At
first they move into a home of fiberglass cloth and dirt floors. The next team
will replace these with houses on a cement slab with traditional bamboo sheet
walls. The people here are still reluctant to live in concrete and brick homes
like the ones they lost.
We arrived in the village a little after noon and started
work on a latrine for the family that owns the property where we are staying.
Eddie and his wife have been living in the house that is going to be rented to
the team that comes in August. We finished the latrine that was about half done
and helped them cut a door in the fiberglass tarp that forms the walls.
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