FRI, JAN 14 - TOURED AIDS HOMES IN MAUA AREA

AIDS home; Left side=new home; Right side=previous home

On Friday morning, we attended chapel service and then rode in vans to view some of the homes the community has built for very poor people with AIDS and for families where the parents have died from AIDS.

These houses follow a standard design. It is one room (two if there are both boys and girls in the family). It is wood framed so it is easier for women VIM team members to construct than are the cinder block homes we have helped build in Mexico.

In the picture above, the new house is on the left and the original dwelling is on the right. Many original homes were mud huts - like the sod homes Okahoma settlers lived in prior to Oklahoma's statehood!