Cement steps up the hill, after three months carrying sand

The path was uneven stone and people slipped on it. I wanted to put cement steps in. I had no money, no help and no experience, and I started anyway.

Getting the sand up was the first hard part. Two hundred bags, half a kilometre into the forest, and it took three months. Some days I carried it alone. Some days I brought it up on the bike. One day I came off the bike and had to pick myself up, because there was nobody there to help me. There was no road then, only rock and a walking path full of stones, and a bike wheel could barely take it. It was painful, and it was a hard test.

Building it was the second hard part, because I did not know how to build anything out of rock. I struggled two or three days before we got it standing. Then the rocks went in over three days and the cement over two more, and we painted it and watered it.

That is Shiva's grace. He walked me through it and he taught me all of it.