Interesting to see how you can make concrete look beautiful.  this house has been made of concrete yet looks like wood, simply by the use of a plank.  be an interesting way to finish building nicely at low cost.    

Been an enjoyable few days getting to know the updates of what is happening here and preparing for the team. When I arrived it was great that Penny and Ruth (old Mission Direct friends) had a spare room and gave me a base in Phenom Penh as I was able to do a bit of shopping and book the restaurants…

Off to Cambodia and arrived after a 16 hour trip and missed a night with the 7 hour time difference.  Didn’t start well as I mistakenly took 46kg to check in at Thai airways, only to find their allowance was 30kg.  One bag was entirely full of football kit, donated by Kitaid which I was taking to provide a team…

You may know that Home Leone is taking corporate teams as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility agendas.  Working with Manna4Life, our corporate team from the Birmingham based, IM Group are preparing to leave on 31 January.  We’ve just confirmed that Habitat for Humanity will pass over the title of land to the village leaders who we are working with…

Let me tell you the land story.  A year ago I met a lady in the UK who agreed to give us 9 acres of land to get going.  This was a fabulous start and we visited it several times and met her relations.  Unfortunately they decided to withdraw the offer so come June last year, whilst we had looked…