Habitat for Humanity - Batam Project - It was in the middle of close to nowhere, a small village in Batam and before we realize we were already on our way building a small house for the less privileged people. We started on Thursday, leaving from Singapore to Batam Island by ferry. The one hour journey was fascinating. Arrived there and after lunch we quickly geared up for work.
It was a joint contribution by MediaCorp to take part in this programme. I believe MediaCorp did support and sponsor for 10 houses to be built under this initiative.
The programme is arranged in such a way that the actual owners of the house are the ones who work to build their home. The programme provides support and materials and some on-off manpower like us to help build the homes. By doing this, the people receiving the support will have more value over the help the get and also will have ownership to take care of the property. The lady in the pink blouse and two guys net to her will become the joint owners of the house. The last guy on the left is our coordinator from HFH programme. Each house will cost and estimated SGD 4000.We just helped for 3 days 2 nights before heading back on Saturday evening. We were extremely tired but it was a very good experience. The Indonesian people here are really hard workers. The amount of strength is probably 10 X more than us. Yup, maybe since we are just used to our daily office air-conditioned environment, we find it so difficult to cope here, but definitely its worth it
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