The pictures show how homes are made here in Galmi. The bricks are fashioned by hand, and laid in the sun to dry. It reminds me of the way the Israelites must have made their homes thousands of years ago. Each brick is quite heavy. The homes in the village are all made out of these bricks, with mud as the mortar. Apparently the heavy rains in rainy season do not damage the homes much because it comes down so quickly and the homes have drainage pipes built into the tops of the roofs. It is in the extended slow rain that comes down and soaks into the brick that causes quite a lot of damage. Everything built here is done by hand, and watching the men build a new addition at the hospital shows just what hard manual labour is. The afternoons here in their cold season have been getting up to 90 F so digging foundations and pouring cement becomes a very long afternoon of work.
