Here's what's been going on in Lawmbogo over the past few months.
Before I left in July we were working on cordoning off a piece of the church property to cultivate for some community garden space. Because this village is closely surrounded by commercial sugarcane plantation, people don't have a lot of space for personal subsistence gardens, especially the marginalized.
(Why yes, that young man is pulling the barbed wire with bare hands. And even though it looks like the backs of Paul's legs are about to get shredded, I promise that's not the case. Maybe if someone weren't stopping to take pictures...)
Since then, Pastor Mawa and others have tilled and planted and things are beginning to grow. We've got maze and beans coming up as well as passion fruit, matoke (a type of non-sweet banana), and cassava. I've been talking to a few people who teach a method of sustainable agriculture called Farming God's Way that I hope we can learn and implement at the next planting.
Another project we're working on now is building a large chicken coop. Again, the hope is to be able to provide for the church and the most marginalized of this community.
From design...
(This may not have been completely necessary for building a chicken coop but sometimes I need to get back to my roots and I'm also trying to learn this design program.)
To implementation...
Measuring & Layout
A lot of digging. At least there are no frost line requirements
Poles are set and heights adjusted
Roof framing going up
And then sheeting
Not finished yet but we'er well under way. I've been building the doors here at home so we'll install those and fence it in soon. Should be omelets for breakfast and BBQ'd chicken in no time. Though which one comes first I wonder...?
