Before the work started, accumulated rain water in the soil created a muddy ditch behind the school. Clearing the area behind the school to make room for a fence to surround the school. Despite hot weather, local volunteers from the village did a lot of the work. Building the Wall 9. Villagers and Mr. Miyao, a Japanese advisor, mix cement with sand in order to make concrete.
Workers pour cement into the temporary wood frame to reinforce the walls.
Here village workers dig up large roots which were damaging the building's foundation. Because they could not get a chain saw, they chopped and dug up the roots with agricultural tools. Village women give refreshments to the workers. Here wooden frames are being built for the front concrete wall. Since this front wall faces the road, it was constructed with a slight inward slant.