Jacque: Clean Up and Tear Down

We have been on several projects to help people. From tearing down homes to building homes to cleaning up their lots. This project was dismantling a home so they could move their materials to another location to rebuild their home. It was a pretty dusty job and I lost my voice for almost a week as soon as they started knocking down the blocks of cement.

Mr. Frog. The little boys, lalakai, tried to catch this frog. He was pretty big.

Pulling down the woven panels. The family will reuse the panels on their new home.

Dad doing his part.

On the path back to the car, one of the Elders climbed a tree and pulled down some pods. The sisters were pealing the outer covering and as they ate the contents they pulled faces. Telling me it was really sour. I tried a taste expecting it to be reallysour. But it was very good and sour. I will have to look up the name of it. It has a stone inside and then a sticky substance around the stone. You eat the sticky substance.

We did a clean up of a families lot. The people do have trash collection but burn a great deal of their refuge, however everything does not burn, including cellophane wrapped snack packaging, rubber, glass bottles and plastic. Yards have several burn piles and they never are completely burned. The people also have a habit of just throwing down their food wrappers. The people are always snacking and everything is individually wrapped so as they walk around they just drop the packaging as they walk by. Every morning outside of our gate there is discarded wrappings to snacks. Jeepneys loaded with people will drive by and you will see people throwing their garbage out the windows. It is really kind of sad.