The sun-baked barrio on the outskirts of the Colombian town of Neiva is a community with pride. The housing and living conditions are not good, but they are changing through the efforts of the people and with a small financial grant of $5000 for building materials from the Agency for International Development. The people had been living in ramshackle huts pieced together from pasteboard boxes. An American Peace Corps architect designed a small, attractive house which the people themselves could build. With the help of a local engineer he demonstrated how to make bricks and concrete blocks. Soon new houses were under construction. Everyone in the barrio has pitched in to improve the community. Children too young to help with construction carried water form mixing concrete. Neighbors pitched in to finish the house of a man whose hand was injured in an accident. The Alliance for Progress coordinates the assistance effort throughout Latin America. Here a resident of a slum area in Colombia builds his new home with materials supplied by AID.
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.25.2015 10:57 |
| Photo ID: | 2117724 |
| VIRIN: | 150812-O-ZZ999-178 |
| Resolution: | 16000x12894 |
| Size: | 21.43 MB |
| Location: | CO |
| Web Views: | 27 |
| Downloads: | 14 |
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