Making mud bricks

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DESCRIPTION: Now, a man digs into dry, clay-like soil with a hoe. Beside him, hundreds of mud bricks, each about the size of a cinder block, lie in neat rows.

( people conversing in local language )

DESCRIPTION: A group of kids walk across the bricks and crowd our view. They smile and one of them waves. Our view sweeps to the right, showing more kids and adults gathered nearby.

Now, the brick-maker squats beside a pile of damp clay. He sets a rectangular wooden form on the ground, at one end of a row of bricks. He picks-up a lump of clay and rolls it into the shape of a bowling ball. Then, he drops it into the wooden form and presses it in. He balls-up another lump of clay and adds it to the form.

Kids gather around as the brick-maker makes another brick, dropping large handfuls of clay into the wooden form. A tall boy watches him, then scoops up a handful of sand from the ground and tosses it down.

The tops of the large, brown bricks have grooves and swirl-prints left by the brick-maker's fingers.