It is a scorching hot day when we attend the opening of a new bridge over the Cai Ban River in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, Vietnam.
But it is not the sun’s heat that warms the cockles of our hearts, and those of others present at the ceremony, but the story of how this bridge came to be: It had been built by people in their late 60s, 70s and 80s, voluntarily, charging nothing for their labour.
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