This morning, we travelled to Lesotho, a tiny country completely surrounded by South Africa. It's a beautiful, mountainous country where 50 percent of the population is unemployed and HIV/AIDS rates are alarmingly high. We met up with a former colleague and some of her friends and traveled to Maseru, the country's capital. There we joined some volunteers from Tzu Chi Foundation in helping to build a bathroom for a children's day care center.
At first, it was difficult to help out, and I largely felt useless, moving cinder blocks from one pile to another pile, closer to the structure. But eventually, I got into the groove and was troweling cement, laying bricks down and shoveling cement to different areas of the structure.
I can't say that I worked terribly hard, but it was nice to get into the community, work alongside some Basotho men and work toward building a needed structure in the community.
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