On the 17th and 18th of February, the club Brick by Brick went to Temoaya with Construyendo to build a house for Lucero and her son Marco Antonio Mejía Calixto.

The club has been an active organization within ASF for the past decade, known for teaming up with NGOs such as TECHO and Construyendo with the end goals of helping the homeless community within or around Mexico City.
This year, club President Ivanna Wiaktor, and officers Daniel Cielak, Liam Dondisch and Pablo Perdomo collaborated with Construyendo, in their AMIGO CONSTRUYENDO project, a project which seeks to promote the solidarity of volunteers in order to complement human development through construction projects focused on raising the quality of life of the most needy families.
Around 40 ASF students and teachers signed up to be part of this project, knowing it would last two days and around 10 hours of travel and labor.
On Saturday, upon arrival, ASF students got to meet and learn about the Mejía Calixto family. A family that consists of 26 year old Lucero, and her two year old son Marco Antonio, the mother and son found themselves in need of a home. They had previously resided in Lucero’s brother's house, living in one bedroom: a space not apt for creating an engaging and supportive environment for her son. As a result, Construyendo sought to not only provide a roof under which they could live, but also the possibility of providing Marco Antonio a conducive environment for adequate development.
Lucero works as a merchant in Temoaya, specifically dedicated to the sale of typical embroidered napkins, a work rooted in its region.
The students, with the help of Daniel Santiago Jimenez and Jesus Dominguez Tule, the leaders of construction, arrived at the site at 8:00 AM, and started binding the styrofoam structure of the walls and roof of the house together. This process, which had to ensure that the walls were sturdy enough to withstand the concrete later on, lasted a promising four hours.

New skills were acquired, and the students got a sense of the complexity of a concrete house.
Thereafter, the walls had to be laid up and the house began to take shape. Once the four walls on the exterior were up and standing, half of the group stayed inside of the house, whilst everyone else grabbed the roof on the outside. On the count of three, those that were outside were to pick up the roof, and throw it on top of the house. Those inside, had to catch the roof. An exciting and nerve racking event to say the least, the house's foundation was finished.
The last task of the day was making the concrete, and laying the initial foundation for the students on Sunday to continue.
A tedious process, students learned how to stick concrete onto styrofoam and finish a wall in 30 minutes! Pictures below.
Students on Sunday kept up the hard work, and the house was finished.
Thank you to all that could participate and create a new home for Lucero and Marco!

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