Day 5: Inner wall and trusses

Today we started on the inner wall and we were building the trusses.  The masons had started the inner wall so it would be straight.

One room will be for a kitchen and the other room will be a sleeping/multi-purpose room.

The trusses were hand fabricated from a pattern from the masons.  Everything was cut with a handsaw and nailed together.

While we were working on the trusses, some of the locals came by to say hi!

We were able to get the windows secured into the walls once they were dry and set.

We got some help with the trusses from one of the village volunteers.

Here is a stack of the trusses.  We made 7 for the roof.

We also were able to put our names in the cement on top of the soak away.

Here is a shot of the progress of the inner wall.

We were also given the task of creating a wire anchor for the trusses before the roof can go on.  There were 14 in total.

We were also starting 2 garden plots for Tumisang to be able to start planting once he moves in.

All in all, it was a pretty productive day, hopefully tomorrow, which is our last day on site, we will be able to get the trusses up, roof nailed in and the walls plastered!