More than forty local families found employment during the Funzi school rebuilding project. Conscious of the extreme poverty and unemployment in the villages of Funzi and Bodo, the Trust stipulated that the contractor must use local labour wherever possible. Women were employed to draw water at the well, carrying it in the traditional manner on their heads to the men mixing cement.
Others were employed to smash stones to create ballast. Meanwhile local men pushed handcarts filled with coral blocks from the local quarry. Others worked alongside the craftsmen helping build the walls, lay floors and drive in fence poles. The benefits have not been limited to these families. All of this has helped feed the local economy with people able to use their wages to buy from the local stalls, purchase fresh vegetables from other local people working in nearby fields or even buy a cup of ginger tea at the ever popular Adilles cafe
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