I had a great opportunity to visit a Habitat for Humanity Vietnam (HfHV) site at the start of this week.  An eager and delightful group of 14 volunteers from USA, Mexico, England and Canada arrived for two weeks to build two houses.

Two recipients had been selected to get help with their houses by the community and HfHV.  I drove down with the group on Monday morning from HCMC and then we had an orientation and met the local government officials and visited the housing sites where we would be building.  On Tuesday the group started building.

HfHV provides the tools and the construction supervisors to guide the building.  Everything is done by hand, mixing cement, transporting bricks, breaking bricks and making reinforcement wire.  The house owners also help with the build and we normally get a few spectators from the road.  It was a hard and hot day out there and I was glad to make it home.  I will catch up with the team when they arrive back in HCMC in 2 weeks.

I take my hat off to these people, they donate them time and energy and travel half way around the world to help people less fortunate than themselves.  We had a couple of Vietnam Veterans who hadn’t been back for 40 years so it was very emotional for them.   Enjoy the photos.