Monthly Archives: May 2014

Rehabilitating a House

The SEEDs partnership with local Indonesian organisation Yayasan Pendar Pagi includes the placement of professionals in a rural Riau region of Sumatra. Collaborating with a local builder, workers recently completed the rehabilitation of a home for an elderly widow in one village. Local experts recommended that the back portion of her traditional wooden stilted house should be removed due to substantial termite damage and replaced with a small brick extension connecting to the old section. The new building, which consists of a toilet, seating area and small room for sleeping, was funded by an external sponsor concerned about housing conditions of the poor in this area. After the building work was completed the family and neighbours came together for a traditional blessing and prayer event and it is now in use!