Here is a link that the church made of the Haiti trip. http://www.vimeo.com/13979557
It was played at the beginning of the service yesterday. I know that one of the pictures shows a pile of 2 x 4s. The group said that it was what they walked up on when they got to the work sites in order to build the shelters. Luckily, the guides that were there to help knew what to do. One story that I was told (this is Lisa writing, by the way) was that there were 2 or 3 Haitians that were there to help each group. Haitian helper #1 might go about building the shelter a little differently than helper #2, and the teams had to adapt to whoever the leader was at that chosen time. Leadership might switch hands part way through the build, and the team would have to readjust their thinking according to how that leader wanted the shelter built. I know the teams were just thankful that someone knew what they were doing, and were glad to adapt their strategies.
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Since there aren't a set of directions, everybody seemed to learn it a different way. After building a few with different teams, we learned that some ways worked a lot better than others. We tried to pass on some of those tricks to the other teams. I think we got pretty good at it by the end of the week. So if anybody needs a shed or cabin, I have the plans in my head.
Erik
Great pictures! I'm sure you were glad to get home and out of the heat. Looks like there was a lot of work to be done. I don't know how you got so many houses built in such a short time!
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