During last spring the boundary wall that demarcates the entire land of about 11,000 square meters of paddy fields and green banana trees was finished. Inside the wall there will be the house, the craft workshops, two wells for water, the porter's lodge, the guest house and a spacious and pleasant garden where children can play and study. Beyond the wall there will be a pond to collect water, a fence for poultry and the orchard.

In September, after the monsoon season, the construction works re-started, but the abundant daily rainfall and the temperature, still close to 35°, did not allow the activities to continue uninterrupted. The construction master explained to us that the construction work, especially in the countryside, is entirely carried out by men's. The ground, before being dug and used for the construction of foundations, must dry to avoid recurrence of landslides in case of a sudden shower.

Many of the inhabitants and farmers of the villages close to Balarampur have left the fields to work in building the house until they will be needed for sowing during spring. Thanks to the remarkable help of the local people and the abundance of clay, a natural resource highly used in India, the walls and the house are being built according to tradition, all manually.

In fact, the classic drilled brick, very expensive because manufactured by the most modern equipment, will cost too much and cannot last over time and resist to the cold of the winter and the tropical moisture of the summer months. The transport of materials is done by young women. Holding the dupatta on the head (the scarf that usually surrounds the neck and face protecting from the wind), women load the bricks and sand as real experts among Indian carriers. Men work instead on the bamboo or wooden scaffolding. The work proceeds slowly and many unskilled workers are needed for the lack of machinery.