Habitat for Humanity

Bedman Henry Hutabarat is building his home for his family of 4. His oldest child is 11 year old, second child is 9 and the youngest is just over 2 years old. He works as a driver while his wife is a homemaker (right with youngest child, left is Henry). His home is in Indonesia, Batam (Google map here).



His house costs S$3K and will take 4 years to pay back. The money will then goes towards building another home for another family in the neighborhood.

Each week, a different group of volunteers from Habitat for Humanity will arrive and do whatever necessary towards finishing the house. Depending on the stage and state of the construction, they could be transporting bricks using human chain, straightening scrape metal for wire-fountain, digging holes or laying bricks.

When I was there in the 1st week of Sept, we moved bricks, broke and leveled earth and laid bricks. The perspiration we left there was very meaningful as we can see our efforts making an impact even thou it was back-breaking labor intensive work. For me, there is a sense of achievement mixed with educational feeling attached to the time spent there.

Build - Housemartin