Our community and service group combined with a few more students from Elizabeth Moir school had established the idea to start fund raising and spreading awareness. The fund raising came from us as a collective decision to do, and it was going to be done through selling pizza to the Modern United Nations participant in our school. Usually every saturday there are crowds of students that come to our school to take part for COMUN and with taking place in our own school we decided that it wouldn't be a good idea to sell pizza to them as well as other people who are willing to pay for some to eat.
The point of this pizza sale is to raise awareness for our Organization so that more people become aware of what they do and why we work along side them. We had produced pamphlets and borrowed some brochures from Habitat for Humanity. With this we would be able to expand the greater idea of what we are trying to achieve and not only raise money and begin funding for their purpose of construction but to also have more students from other schools join in with our group so that we can work faster and have more done within shorter periods of time. Right now we are collaborating with Elizabeth Moir school but we wish to spread out and have more volunteers join us from British School, CIS, AIS, Gateway College as well as others that are near by. We stand with only one goal and that is to promote the aims and reasons as to why we do what we do.
By the end of the day the amount of money we had made was enough to construct two houses down south or up north for those who needed any assistance or reconstructing to be done to better benefit their state of living.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Habitat For Humanity (Visiting New Locations)
On the 6th of December our Service group joined with the Moir School had taken a trip out to a local region in Wathala. Our goal was to bring in an action purpose to help people there get the organization to help them with their housing conditions. When we arrived there the first observation that i had was the surrounding itself was to be very damp and wet. Wathala is known to be in the wet zone where there tends to be a lot of rain. Within ground level these people are prone to having their houses flooded by the rain. As a group what we strive to achieve is to bring aid to those who need it and this situation with the constant flooding made it critical for assistance.
4 houses were looked at had all the same problems, they were built too low, their material was all ply wood and badly hammered nails that didn't give them much support or stability. The wood being the weakest aspect and the biggest problem of all, its all because when the rain starts to flood the wood becomes wet and soggy leading it to either break or start to fall out. Remember this is one of the wettest areas in Sri Lanka so these people who live here have to deal with rain fall almost every day. They didn't have kitchens, their bathrooms were just stone stacks in a squared shape to cover the view and their toilet is a hole in the ground. We produce resources for all these parts of a house but they cost separately for each part. The bathroom has its own price as does the kitchen and a single room. These people undergo several days of rain and have too much to worry about. Our collective ideas were to get the whole house reconstructed and made out of stone slabs and cement based floors.
Food supply was also low within this village. As you can see in this picture with the pigs, its their food resource. Our school enables us to follow some of the IB learner profile methods with everything we do. As a group we take risks for the people who need the help and deserve a better life. Reconstructing houses is the best start because they need to be able to feel safe in the confines of their own living area and that is what we aim to do as a Service group. Change! people want it but not many can have it due to their economical problems. For people like this we do them a favour by giving them something, we have everything we need now its time to give something to those who need it.
4 houses were looked at had all the same problems, they were built too low, their material was all ply wood and badly hammered nails that didn't give them much support or stability. The wood being the weakest aspect and the biggest problem of all, its all because when the rain starts to flood the wood becomes wet and soggy leading it to either break or start to fall out. Remember this is one of the wettest areas in Sri Lanka so these people who live here have to deal with rain fall almost every day. They didn't have kitchens, their bathrooms were just stone stacks in a squared shape to cover the view and their toilet is a hole in the ground. We produce resources for all these parts of a house but they cost separately for each part. The bathroom has its own price as does the kitchen and a single room. These people undergo several days of rain and have too much to worry about. Our collective ideas were to get the whole house reconstructed and made out of stone slabs and cement based floors.- Food supply
- Protection
- Shelter
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