Build Our World is a third-world charity construction organization for which Sayid worked in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) sometime in 2007. When Locke came to see him, Sayid was part of the crew helping to build a school. Sayid refused Locke's plea to return to the Island, believing that Locke was being manipulated and that his own work with Build Our World was, by contrast, "real good". ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")