Day 30: Huts for the workers

Today's Friday started much warmer than the previous mornings: as the weather and especially the temperatures become more wintry, we had the little heater in the room on for the first time tonight. During the day it still gets 20-25 degrees warm thanks to the sun, but once the sun is gone, we're scraping the 0 degree mark. But still, after breakfast we started working. In the morning we helped out in the workshop. There I helped Karsten attach the electronics and taillights to a new, self-built trailer. Meanwhile, Jakob and Absalom dismantled two new huts for the charcoal burners. The walls are manufactured in the workshop and consist of a steel frame and corrugated iron or parts of an old truck trailer. Once the small hut is finished, the individual walls are unscrewed and transported to Okaue. There they can be assembled into small huts again.

Shortly before lunch break, we loaded one of the cars with the huts, generator, flex and more corrugated iron for the roofs.

The trailer in the workshop ...

After lunch break, we drove to Okaue with the loaded car. With 4 men on the continuous bench seat in the driver's cab and the walls on the roof, we moved on legally rather unstable terrain - but still reached our destination.

On site, some of the charcoal burners helped to build the huts. First, the 4 walls were screwed together, then more corrugated iron was screwed onto the frame for the roof. The approximately 4 sqm 'large' huts do not offer the comfort of a European single-family house by any means. But the charcoal burners here live very simply and modestly and are completely satisfied with the huts.

At 6.30 pm both huts were finished and we could make our way back. Karsten was already waiting for us at the farm with dinner. Sylvia and Jens are at a hockey tournament in Windhoek this weekend and will not return to the farm until Sunday. We were back in bed by 9.30 pm. Tomorrow is the weekend, but Saturday morning is working time and starts early as usual ...