About the build

I'm back home and on the grid! Here is an update on the Habitat for Humanity Build that I was working on over the past week. More than three quarters of our group had participated in past builds and all said this was the most arduous. The combination of rigorous work and high-altitude was challenging, compounded by the fact that many of us became ill due to the poor air quality and sanitation. But the good news is that we got a huge amount accomplished.

Habitat has spent 34 years in Bolivia, building 14,000 homes, benefiting 120,000 people and training 37,000. Most of Habitat's work is in the city of El Alto. El Alto has 1M people and its own government, is primarily underresourced and home to the indigenous population in La Paz. El Alto has some of the worst traffic in the world--it ranks in the top five.

45% of people in Bolivia live in overcrowded or inadequate conditions. 20% of the population is homeless.