Maybe they are having some iron sheets".
The roof is made of corrugated iron sheets.
Roofs are generally made of slate tiles or corrugated iron sheets.
In 1960, heading in yet another direction, Burri turned to scrap iron sheets fixed on wood.
"I like looking at the new buildings, especially the new iron sheets on the roof," she says.
Shortly after the earthquake, aid agencies distributed survival items, including rice, clothes and iron sheets for cover.
"When we were living under corrugated iron sheets I had skin problems and was constantly feeling ill," she said.
Amilcar de Castro, a sculptor who captured Brazil's tempestuous contradictions in geometric parables of massive iron sheets, died on Nov. 22 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Before Elasu headed back to Kampala, his mother had made another request to her son– she wanted a permanent house made of bricks and iron sheets.
Manyenga, he knew, had already mentally bought the iron sheets for the roof, kept the change, and perhaps put aside the scraps to sell or trade.
Unicef has supplied thousands of corrugated iron sheets for 1,996 schools, such as Thuwana's Middle School No 1, that lost their roofs.
