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Seen from the hill above the Village spring, the first stages of housing construction. The piles of grey sand on the right will be sifted to remove all the stones and later made into bricks. The open-topped structures in the middle are the foundations of houses - because of flooding during the rainy season, the houses have to be raised 4 to 5 feet off the ground. Once the walls are set and pipes for water and electricity run, the foundations must be filled with sand, rocks and gravel. All of which was carried by hand in sand bags. In the far left, completed houses, with their sloping roofs. houses were made in groups of three side by side units, with three blocks forming a horseshoe type courtyard.
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