We were driving around town on Friday, checking out missionary's apartment before transfer and come across this scene. It reminded me instantly of what I remembered seeing when I was a little girl in Hong Kong. There were no high tech equipment to help move materials upstairs and so you see instead of carrying the bricks up the ladder to the second floor, the worker on the ground threw the brick upward to be catched by another worker. It was very impressive how accurate the throw is and how the other person just catch it so easily. I am amazed at how manual labors are performed each day. Despite the fact the country is claiming to be building high rises building using cranes and heavy equipment but the little jobs are so done by hands! When we were in India 4 years ago, we saw workers carrying buckets of mortars/cement on their heads and climbed the stairs to put into columns forms to make supporting beams, here it is the same; the building right outside of our large window went from 3 floors to 8 floors; each time they build a floor, large cement truck would come with cements being mixed, using pully, workers moved the cement upward and put on the forms to create supportive beams for the next floor. Now the outside of the building is done, and works to create the individual units inside the building will begin. The fun part is watching this building goes up and how workers built it, but the sad part is, of course, it now blocked our once wonderful view of the skyline.
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| Manually putting the steel up, then putting boards to form columns |
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| It is getting higher! |
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Column now filled with cement!!
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| Completed with a blue roof! |
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