The gift of a cheapest house on Earth

I watch the struggles that we make today fighting hard to make ends meet, with economic challenges that threaten the lives of many people. Apart from food, shelter is one great necessity but this is mainly felt in big towns and cities around the world.

When I look around, the environment is degrading day by day. The beauty is perishing and the wild animals have moved away to find a living elsewhere.

Gulleys have formed on the once great earth. I look at the mountain I see a proof of the beauty that has existed over the years. I live near the black mountain. A beauty that is rich in many types of indigenous trees and shrubs. It is the source of our water, for wild or domestic animals, insects like bees and others.

Most modern houses are beautiful and good. They provide comfort to people. Where do they get the building materials from? How do they get the materials? Most bricks for construction of modern houses are found in quarries. They are dug from the ground. To get more they dig dipper ar use dynamite to make big mines which contribute to earth breakage.

Other construction materials include cement (cement) has lime and mix sand with cement for house construction . The lime stones are dug from the ground causing holes. Sand is found on our river beds. Sand harvesting is drying rivers and people who depend on shallow wells for water are will soon suffer.

To construct a modern house one needs money to buy these and other materials such as timber to complete.

The traditional Maasai house is the cheapest house I have known for years. What materials does one need to make this house? 1) Tree branches /shrub branches 2) Grass 3) Cow dung and cow urine 4) String from back of trees.

Sakaya unlike many men from his pastoral community married one wife. End of last year 2015 the wife decided to construct a much bigger house for the family in preparation for the birth of their 5th child. She looked tired from the pregnancy but determined to have a new house.

For many days she collected dry grass, wood from trees for poles, wooden sticks from shrubs, cow dung and cow urine.

She dug holes dip enough to accommodate and hold the poles for a strong foundation. The shrubs were tied in between the wooden poles by use of tree back strings. She used the tree back strings to weave the sticks and poles together to make it firm. She then fixed the grass between the sticks to conceal the spaces. The walls were first made and then the roof.

The finishing was done by mixing the cow dung and cow urine (she collected every day from their few cows) to plaster and smoothen the walls.

The house has one entrance and the windows are small round holes. T o collect and construct takes her several weeks but she eventually manages to finish. She is her own architect and builder. Women in her community construct houses.

She didn’t buy building materials from a hardware all she did was go to the slopes of the mountain and get them for free. ‘Wonders of Mother Nature’ This house is very cheap. She only needed her time and energy to do so.

If you convert the energy and time she used into money. It is very cheap.

This is how kind and generous Mother Nature can be. Why, then can’t Sakaya’s wife and others like her who make the majority of the world’s population not support her.” Her house is a gift from Mother Nature”

As a great supporter of Mother Nature and to stand in solidarity with her;

I participated in the # Women Act for Climate Justice -Global Mobilization 2016.

I read my story to our children on my love for Mother Nature and for them to join its protection for future generations.-shared my story of 29th August,2015

https://www.worldpulse.com/en/community/users/rosemaryntoipo/posts/51909

I decided to write a letter to Mother Nature to show my love for her.

Please, read my story to your children, friends, family and all let them be ‘Environmental Ambassadors of Good Change’