The coordinator of the Fuller Center’s Global Builders program, Tiffany Ellis, led her own team to Cluj, bringing 20 volunteers to help on the worksite of the Britta Sofia non-profit housing community.
During the work week, Global Builders were hard at work trenching. There always seems to be something to dig in Jucu, and this time it was all about the placement of the future gas & electricity connections for the homes. They also made excellent progress in insulating duplex 11, future home for the Călean and Bereschi families.
Outside the home, they placed styrofoam boards, and mixed the plaster needed to glue them in place before special fixtures are also mounted for added security. Inside the wall frames, the team installed rockwool, a thick layer of insulation that provides warmth and dampens noises.
In their free time, volunteers went underground in Cluj’s most visited tourist attraction, the Turda Salt Mine, featuring hundreds-of-years old tunnels and galleries, the longest echo in the world, as well as some newer attractions like undeground boat rides, Ferris wheel or even mini-golf. After the work week, the team took the weekend for a trip to Maramureș, to visit the Merry Cemetery in Săpânța, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as well as to have fun riding a traditional olden steam train, Mocănița, through spectacular scenery in the mountains. One of them was even allowed in the locomotive itself for part of the journey, and escaped largely unscathed!
