Over the past few weeks we have been working on building a pigpen for an orphanage. The purpose of building the pigpen is to provide the orphanage a way to earn money for itself so that it can have the money it needs to run properly. In Tanzania, properly raised pigs from birth can be sold for over 1000% profit. Thus, you can see why we would want to build a pigpen and start a pig raising business for the orphanage. The following are some photos of the progress of the project. The photo to the right is a shot of the site before we began.
Excavating the site and laying the foundation went quick ;) Actually, this was the most difficult part of the project. You know the short-handled shovels that we sometimes use at home? That was about all we had for the digging! I got a little tired bending down to dig out and level the foundation. You can see how much we dug out by looking at that back wall of soil.
Progress actually went pretty quick. As soon as we laid our cement slab, the following day we began building up our brick walls.
By the following week, we had our walls up and we started putting up the frame for the roof.
We oiled the wood part of the structure with used motor oil to protect the wood from rotting. (Yes, that is a fire hazard). I didn't know you could use used motor oil for that purpose.
And then we added the roof. Looks pretty good, huh?
