Bela Vista glooms in New Splendor!

Building weekend- Bella Vista glooms in new splendor

Building weekend- what does it mean? On a Friday and Saturday all volunteers at IICD do their best to work at a project together. The idea is to learn new practical skills and capabilities, irrespective of the different previous experiences of each volunteer.

This weekend, the 14. and 15. August, it was time to paint one of our volunteer houses, the Bella Vista. Our painters really had a splendid view for painting. On those two days you could see a group of seven different nations in old clothes working in the blazing sun. Their concentrated faces suggested that they were really intent upon their work. Some courageous who were not terrified of heights were standing on a ladder for painting the upper part of the building.

The promotion team's job was to support the painters by cooking every meal in those two days. They differed from the others in not having any paint in their faces. With ice cream, coffee and cake they tried to cheer up the exhausted painters.

On Saturday evening, just in time, the last brushstrokes were taken and Bella Vista could enjoy its new fresh appearance. The persevering painters were recompensed by a barbecue. Some volunteers never painted a building before, others were already adept in painting. They all did a very good job!

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