The progress*
Since December 2018 we have been working hard on the recovery of all the rooms, floors and walls. We have built a toilet and a shower and made a lot of adobe bricks. With the volunteers we dug several water reserves for the project, temporarily made from plastic and palmbranches, created various sheds to protect from the sun, almost finished the kitchen and built two bridges between the main road and the house.

Timeline design by Sara De Moitié

The first 1,5 years we lived without electricity and in summer 2020 we found a temporary electricity solution. Said installed electricity throughout the house and we could finally use a refrigerator. He also installed lighting and connected a pump from the water reserves to the smaller tanks in the house. He created a plumbing system so that we could have water in the shower, toilet and kitchen.

In summer 2023 we started changing our little garden inside the house and we are moving plants to the bigger garden outside. We have planted a couple of young trees and are trying to grow several herbs, shade-giving climbing plants and flowers. A first irrigationsystem is being installed. Preparations of new rooms and a wall around the land are in progress. We are reaching out to several nomad women in the desert and have made a first step in selling some of their handmade products. The underground water sources beneath our land have been checked. Said has made a first start in digging the well manually. The plan is to continue with a well drill soon.

*text & timeline updated in summer 2023.

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