Every year ABSA has this MAD build a house project, where they undertake to build a certain number of houses in a week. This year they undertook to build 100 houses. 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 kombi's they hired to transport us to site
The payroll ladies
Driekie, Catherine and yours truly
OH Yes, we were also given these T-Shirts and Caps
One of the two houses, we were assigned to, this is how far it was
when we got there on Thursday. They started it on Monday.
However it was not organised very well this year, as we had to wait
for supplies to be delivered or they werent delivered at all. In which
case we moved on to help others at other sites
Some of the volanteer ladies
Driekie posing next to our Bytes flag
Some of the ladies cleaning the building rubble out of the house
Driekie and Mandy, and I got two right handed gloves
Passing the bricks, this was a back killer
Smoke Break
Catherine cleaning the excess cement off
Love the hard hats and gloves...
ReplyDeleteA good initiative. Well Done, Ladies.