Sacks of cotton nearly 2 meters high wait to be used in the women's quilt-making projects.

A partially plastered brick wall.

Building materials stand against the windows of a mosque under construction.

A young apprentice carefully shapes the decorative moulding on a mosque ceiling.

A young boy stands near his father, a local leader who is overseeing a mosque rehabilitation project.

An old man balances on a narrow scafolding hauling buckets of plaster up for his co-workers.

A man plasters the side of his local mosque.

Workers kick up dust as then churn the soil of a local mosque with straw in preparation for making plaster for the compound's outer wall.