CONSTRUCTION

The men in the community are learning additional skills through work initiatives alongside Quicken Trust. These include bricklaying, building, fencing and maintenance. They quickly learn these new skills that can be used to earn an income in the wider community.

They know how to make bricks from the earth by mixing it with water, forming in a mould, drying in the sun and then stacking the dry bricks into a kiln shape covered in mud and firing the bricks by burning logs and branches in holes in the kiln. They then sell the bricks for others to build houses.

What they couldn’t do was use the bricks to build houses for themselves because they couldn’t afford the cement and the corrugated iron for the roof. They had therefore never acquired the skill. But with training and the supply of cement they have shown an aptitude for construction. They are now using their new-found skill to help earn an income.

The same is true for all aspects of construction. Show them how to do it and they can. Uganda is going through a construction boom and their new skills bring an income and dignity through work.

No sum is too small in the provision of resources to assist the community to develop construction skills.

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