8^th September 2008

Ongoing Actions

This man is 77 years old and has been living in a small shack on his own for the past few years. It has no running water or electricity. Up until recently he had earned a living by collecting recyclable rubbish from the street. Now he has just returned from hospital after having a cyst operation on his neck and he has no energy to walk the streets collecting rubbish.

The woman in the shack next door cooks for him. Thanks to recent generous donations O has just started to provide a small supplementary income, food, etc. We are now preparing to employ some local people to fix up his home, currently a lean-to shack with no real protection from rain. This area has frequent violent storms most evenings during this monsoon season.

Over two days On Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 September, a small team of local builders were hired to rebuild Loong Bai's hut. These first two pictures show Loong Bai sitting in the front of his original hut. It offered very little protection against the evening storms that regularly battered it.


Loong Bai lives alone with very few things, a tiny income and very little support.
His hut had been totally inadequate to live in due to a leaking roof and insubstantial walls. The heavy rain caused everything to get damp.

The builders put up a bigger, stronger hut, made from wooden beams and locally bought second hand materials.Loong Bai in his new dry hut.
O intends to continue to monitor his situation and provide support until he recovers enough to be able to work.