Ofa (which means ‘love’ in Tongan) is an older widow living by herself in Nuku’alofa. She lives in a small shack on land that belongs to her grandson – because, of course, only Tongan men can own land in Tonga. The shack’s roof and walls leak and you need to watch where you put your feet on her floor so you don’t fall through. She is also quite lonely and this is possibly affecting her mental health somewhat. Conveniently, at some stage in the past some benevolent soul laid a concrete pad right next to her shack, but they never returned to finish the job and build her a house. There is also space beside the pad for a small water tank, if the resources were available to provide that too. She currently gets water from a neighbour. We are privileged to be sending a team of 34 youth and adults from Hamilton Christian School this July to build Ofa a home. We are currently in the process of packing a container to the hilt, to be shipped to Tonga in the next two weeks… You might even say we are shipping the ‘ofa’.