What levels of skill are required? Will there be leadership?
The work is hard manual labor of different skill levels. Hot, heavy, sweaty, dirty. Women with building experience are extremely preferable. Some brigades will be limited to skilled women only. If you do not have building experience, you may still be considered, but please realize that building is not a glamourous profession: there is a lot of grunt work! You must be willing and able to take direction, or you will have a miserable time. We need building trainers/forewomen, as in Condega there are hardly any skilled women in the trades. Amanda Centeno, the Director of the Collective, has wide experience and will be coordinating the work (e.g., logistics, between-site communication if separated, work teams, contracting, allocating, materials, etc). Also, we have Lilliam, the administrator who will take on what corresponds to her to take a load off Amanda too. But there’s a need for women on-site teaching: marking out, taking levels, digging foundations, making form-work, building walls,
