Sentences with phrase «mud huts»

How do you find words when you're standing before a 10 - year - old boy under a rusting tin roof in mud hut in Africa, who's holding an empty jerry - can guitar in one hand and mopping up tears with a handkerchief that he pulled from his pocket with his other hand?

Leigh's transportive trio of mud huts in Marcus Garvey Park and Newkirk's glistening, opalescent curtains in St. Nicholas Park are highlights, in particular.

The average person in the region where we work lives on less than one dollar a day, and there are often six people living in a single mud hut without water or electricity.

Life in a high Andean village is astoundingly different; one room mud huts with no running water or electricity, sharing your living space with chickens and guinea pigs and the nearest school or store is at least an hours trek away.

«That day came in a little mud hut church in the middle of Mozambique,» she recalls.

Straight from mud huts to all this brick and plumbing, the narrow village society of caste and family replaced by Boy Scouts, the 4 - H, and evening Bible studies.

We drove for two hours on a rocky unpaved road, through rolling green hills dotted with acacia trees and tukuls (traditional mud huts).

The wildness of Coffee Bay The effortless sandy coves, steep green hillsides, cliffs, wild aloes, thatch - roofed mud huts and the notable hole - in - the - wall are an un...

The low thatched roofs of the tukuls [cone - shaped mud huts] and storage sheds pop up into view all of a sudden.

And we now know the Jerusalem of David's and Solomon's time was composed of perhaps just 300 residences, many mud huts.

Twenty years ago I sat for hours in the kitchen of my Mum's house at this giant beech desk my sister had bought, staring at the 21» monitor of our thoroughly underwhelming PC, building mud huts and marketplaces on the way to conquering whatever nation's outpost happened to be nearby.

Many of the local schools are little more than multiroom mud huts while the larger schools from the Saddam - era are in total disrepair.

The shrine itself was a low mud hut containing a large, brightly painted wood carving plastered with human and animal figures.

In the illegal side, fires are a constant threat due to indoor cooking practices inside the cluttered mud huts.

Likewise, those who make the claim that global warming isn't real are those who believe quite firmly that the only way we could adress the issue would be to live in mud huts freezing to death, eating roots to stay alive or something as dire.

Standing in a refugee camp amidst the squalor of countless mud huts, I observed villagers waiting for hours to get their daily ration of water.

In her home of Letlhakane, a village of mud huts and thatched roofs, schoolmates post themselves at 100 - meter intervals when she trains, to urge her on her way.

The endless stream of bad news — of natural disasters, of disease, of civil wars, of political instability, of aching poverty — that pour out of this continent, and its depiction through our media as a great monolith of barebacked and malnourished children living in mud huts, numbs us to the detail of Africa.

Stone floors, high ceilings and air - con keep the oversized beach huts cool and breezy and built - in bed and day - bed along with primitive - style carved bathroom doors lend an air of a traditional mud hut.

I would rather be broke, living in a mud hut and surrounded by others with the same outlook than the nutters who've forgotten why they chose the fields they have.

Outside of a mud hut in Africa, I want to ask Noah if there was a dry corner of handkerchief in that willing and ready pocket of his?

«It is so humbling to us, because it is God Himself, coming through people, to help us,» she gestures to her mud hut and that tin roof over our heads.

You can sit in a mud hut in Africa, talking about God and feel like an outed fraud.

Noah wanders outside his mud hut, and then I watch him stand up on this heaped pile in a garden to again sing out his heart of thanks to God's people.

I can understand people living in a mud hut worshiping.

My Dad was not officially racist but I did hear him ask once why Africans still lived in mud huts and never evolved to much more then tribal communities.

I want my great grandchildren traveling the stars, not cowering in a mud hut because of a solar eclipse.

In New Delhi, a woman said, as she sat in the doorway of her mud hut nursing her fourteenth baby, «These are all Godgiven - children.»

However, a church steeple is supposed to be as alien to this country as a mud hut is in the artic.

We find ourselves standing in front of a mud hut where three children play — two girls and a boy.

Sometimes it rains so hard that the Tarach River bed, which runs through the camp like a spine, overflows and washes out dozens of mud huts, melting them, Istarline says, «like chocolate.»

She encouraged David to take the boys outside to see the cows, and her «mud hut» out back while we discussed previous pregnancy experiences.

Keep in mind, those who believe that you should mutiliate your daughter's genitals for the sake of moral purity constitute a large plurality, bordering on an outright majority, of the WORLD's population, never mind how many of them live in mud huts.

In Blue Latitudes, he goes international, taking readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries, from Bora - Bora to the Bering Sea, from the mud hut where Cook was born to the sunstruck shore where he died in Hawaii.

If you cross the bridge that goes over the canal and continue a few more miles, you reach the field - rimmed cluster of mud huts.

Born in a mud hut without shoes, water, or power, he struggled after the genocide to gain an education and to learn to forgive the killers.

Now I have a 4G connection here in my mud hut, and it would be hard to find anyone here that doesn't have smartphone.

We arrived at their grandparents» home just as the sun was setting and were seated around a battered table in their mud hut.

The oldest house in Aruba — a cas di torto, or mud hut, dating back some 150 years — is still standing within this historical town.

Progress from building wood and mud huts to huge stone structures with your friends in open multiplayer, where you can wander the world together to discover new places to build and new resources to scavenge.

As the section was being installed yesterday, Gregory told me that she had been thinking through the idea of economies after traveling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she had stayed in a mud hut in a jungle, and Moscow, where she was doing research.

That appears to be true; I have not seen any genuinely serious suggestion that we simply turn out our lights, toss our car keys in the trash and hunker down in mud huts.