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It’s Monday, September 16, and our alarm just went off at 5 a.m.
After a short night, opening your eyes is the day’s first big challenge.
The hotel has no kitchen, so we search the street for a street vendor to buy some rice and bread for breakfast.
The road that takes us to Lao village, where Bau is carrying out his projects, is winding, dangerous…
On our right, the vehicle grazes the mountain, on our left, the wheels brush against the void and its hundreds of meters of elevation drop.
After an hour of small mountain roads, we finally arrived at Lao village, and it is in the village chief’s house that Bau takes stock of his construction sites.
Mr. and Mrs. Chao are deaf-mute and parents of 4 young children.
Mr. Chao’s dream was to provide a more comfortable home for his family, but with the 4,000,000 VND (150€) he had saved over many years, he was far from having the budget to realize his project.
Knowing that the Vietnamese government allowed Hmong families to recover the wood necessary for building their house from the forest, Bau thought that if the entire village mobilized on the construction site, 15,000,000 VND (580€) would be enough to purchase the sheet metal and cement to complete the construction.
At Bau’s request, the village chief agreed to become his construction foreman.
Mr. Chao signed a contract committing him to build his new house within a period of 2 months, and Bau gave him half the budget.
Upon our arrival at the village, we visited Mr. and Mrs. Chao, whose house was, in just one month, almost completed.
It is a particularly happy couple that we met.
Since Mr. Chao had honored the contract he had signed, Bau gave him the final part of the budget.
Building this house by professionals would have cost Mr. Chao 90,000,000 VND, or 3,460€.
By recovering wood from the forest, asking village residents to help him, and having the village chief oversee the construction site, Bau divided by 6 the budget that allowed Mr. Chao and his family to be relocated.
