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The old school building that has been outgrown:

view from the front view from the side four classes in one room

The construction of the former "new" school building:

mixing mud to make blocks forming the blocks with a mold Is this the way unions work? trimming the stringers and nailing them in place putting on the tin roof almost done

And this is what was left of that new baked mud block building after one extraordinarily heavy rainy season:

the remains of the former school building the remains of the former school building

Building the (larger) replacement building: (This building is still under construction.)

the foundation of the new school building laying blocks on the new building filling mortar joints and smoothing them out laying more blocks pouring a cement beam the cement mixer loading the manual cement hoist emptying the cement hoist and going for another load