Every year ABSA has this MAD build a house project, where they undertake to build a certain number of houses in a week. They then approach large organisations for donations, for the building materials and man power. Last year our Company (Bytes Managed Services) sponosered the building of three houses in Orange Farm. This year they sponsored two houses, and volanteers to go out for the day and assist
the qualified builders with the building by assisting with all the unskilled jobs, like throwing bricks for the buildiers to build with, mixing cement cleaning the mess up cleaning the garden, plastering and putting the roof on etc etc. Then every day for a week, plus minus 30 employees that volanteered go out for the day and help with the building. Yesterday was my departments turn (Payroll office), along with a number of other employees who volanteered. Here are some of the pics........
7h00 am, before leaving we were given breakfast packs, which had a cheese tomatoe and lettuce sandwich in, a yoghurt, a muffin, a jungle bar and a liqui fruit. We were also given gloves and hard hats
The Payroll Department
Driekie, Catherine and Mandy
The buses they hired to transport us to site
One of the two houses we sponsered
Some of the lady volanteers
Driekie posing by the Bytes flag
Moving to help at another site
Removing building rubble
Ermine, cleaning off the excess cement off the windows
Passing the bricks on to the builders, back breaking stuff
And we went home very stiff, very tired, very dirty with dust and sand everywhere
up our noses in our ears, We went home appreciating our homes very much.
