While I was holding babies and playing with kids at the orphanage, Kalan was hard at work under the hot sun. He helped lead a group of Korean high schoolers from an international school in China in some construction work at the mission base.
Here they cleared a seven-foot high pile of trash. Then they dug holes and began preparing supports for a new shed.
Mixing concrete for the supports:
Old homes in the squatter village:
KIM is working on several construction projects in the village. They are building stable concrete homes to replace the temporary shelters that cannot withstand typhoon season.
Many people are displaced each year when their homes are destroyed by typhoons. Sometimes the government moves them to refugee camps outside the city. In my next post, I wll give you a peek inside one of these camps.
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