Pit Latrine

Our practical part of the trip was helping to build the pit latrine. The hole was already dug once we arrived, they just had a few feet left to dig. Soon the foundations were being laid and we were seeing this building rising before our eyes. The final pit latrine had 6 toilets, 3 on one side, 3 on the other. It was incredible that in just one week we had seen a building erected. We did get to lay a few bricks but mostly our job was simply to carry bricks over to the construction site. Although this was a bit disappointing the best way to (and the way that we chose to) look at it is that it is better that they now have the skills to be able to build and construct and that we are slaving away, rather then vica verca, which in the past has been how it was as they were uneducated and so we (people from the UK) did the building and constructing while they slaved for us.