How long?

DEBRA ZEIT, ETHIOPIA: The man sits and dreams of his new home... one that he will own... one with more than one room for him, his wife and his expanding family (currently four kids). It will have a latrine. And an external kitchen which won’t fill his living space with health-robbing smoke from the charcoal fire on the floor every time they prepare a meal.
It’s more than a dream, because along with other villagers he is working with Habitat for Humanity to build his and other homes. Working together, side-by-side, producing mud brick blocks from soil and a smattering of cement.
Building a foundation from local volcanic rock chunks and slowly the walls rise from the ground. Paying it off in the strange currency of bags of cement. He’s so proud.
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