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Is Feider Linn!

We Can Do It!

ALL day, the building site is noisier than a Marakesh market, with hammers pounding, drills shrieking and people shouting.  

But at night, the teachers from the School for the Blind tell us, the children sneak out and make their way to the silenced site to touch walls, floors, tiles and smell the fresh paint.

The place has been an obstacle course, even for the sighted, yet these brave, resourceful kids find their way around it and experience the whole thing in a way we can’t even begin to perceive.

The volunteers are tired, many have been sick or injured and all are pushed to their limits but they are still smiling because they are heroes, every one.

This morning when we arrived, the power had been switched on and finally, after two years of work and planning, the wish to take these beautiful children out of the slum conditions they were living in has become a reality.

Gone are the wheelbarrows, the bits of wood, the gigantic cement mixers, the hammers and drills. The patch of red African earth which was a dustbowl in the centre of the buldings has been transformed into a garden, with lush green shrubs and trees nodding in the breeze.