These are the pictures taken on our final 2008 trip to City of Refuge where we worked with the Bosnian and American students to build shelter for the homeless.
This man, Burt, is the founder and director and has been doing his life's work here for the past 22 years. he is a great man on a mission to help.
The first picture is the building portion of the work that we accomplished during the week. The two units that are building will be accessible to wheelchairs via ramps that we also built during the week that will be installed when the building is completed and the bathroom and shower will also be modified to accomodate the wheelchairs.
The lower picture is what they will be when completed. 4 men live in each cabin and they share a bathroom and eat in a common kitchen/dining room on the property. They live here and pay what they can when they can toward room and board but are expected to work on site if they are not working off site (employed).
We met most all of them living their and found them to be a good group of people who found the margins of our society in their circumstance of life.
It was an honor to work with them and to know that we were providing shelter for others in the future.
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