BRICKS FOR GATUMBA, BURUNDI REBUILD

The monsoons and flooding of Gatumba from December 24, 2011 until the end of February, 2012 left over 1350 families homeless and hundreds more with severe damage to their homes, businesses, and churches. The average home in Gatumba is made of mud bricks. The cost of building a home is $450.00 in US funds. It takes about 1500 bricks to build a home. The cost per brick is 24 cents. An inner village ministry run by one of the local youth pastors (who also serves as one of our interpreters) is helping to rebuild these homes. They have five brick layers on their team with about 40 others who manually haul mud and bricks to the work site. It takes about 2 weeks to build a home.