Our five projects

With 85 teenagers split into 6 groups with 2 leaders per group, YC gave us 5 projects. All teams rotated each day, giving us a chance to work at each site.

My team, the Rubber Duckies, was the best team. Sam disagrees.

1. Ana's House: Ana is a very sweet old lady who had a stroke last year, and has been handicapped since. She has two houses across from each other, and both do not have running water inside. Since her stroke, Ana has not been able to pump water from her pump, so our job was to run pipes from the well into both houses and put a sink in. Ana now has running water!

Oleku's House: Oleku was an elderly man who is paralyzed from the waste down and is in a wheel chair. In order for him to leave his house, he had to crawl out of his chair and down the stairs and pull himself up into his other chair outside. We built him a concrete wheelchair ramp so that he doesn't have to crawl.

NOTE: Ana and Oleku's projects were small compared to the others, so 1 team would be divided between the two houses.

2. New Park: Across the street from Ana's houses, we began the construction of a park. We had to level out the dirt, pour concrete, dig trenches for a fountain and a path. The team that was there this week completed it, and set everything up.
Two teams were here

3. Road: At the camp where we stayed, the road there was bumpy and messed up. We evened it out and poured concrete on it.
One team was here

4. Demolition: At the camp there was an old brick building that was falling apart. We demolished it, and then cleaned all the bricks of the concrete and stacked them in tractors that would take them to the park site and gypsy village.
One team was here

5. Gypsy village: We dug 3 new wells, put up a wall around 2 other wells, planted 2 huge gardens, and re-mudded an old lady's house. They use hay and mud mixed together as their "stucco" with a lime wash over.
One team was here