We have walls!

I just returned from a week at the construction site and just wanted to report that walls are up and we are getting ready to start working on the roof. A few details need to be put into place, like the concrete columns that go in between the sections of concrete block, but estimates are that by March 19th, the roof will start to go on. From that point it should be withina month and a half. My fingers are crossed.

The community continues to support the project well. I had a great conversation with one of the local volunteers and he informed me that he had been working almost four days a week because other community members who couldn´t make their shifts had been paying him to cover them. This news was great to receive simply because it let me know that the community volunteers valued their committment highly enough to put out cash to keep their part going.

In fact, one of the great pleasures of this project is getting to know the community and this year has been no exception. The small community of Aulo is scattered along the road and numbers only about 25 families with children in the school. The children are always a pleasure to get to know and have been busy painting drawing all over their previous school with the paints and chalks we have brought down. The sudden emergence of visible outside art rather surprised everyone and this wave of creative drawing was overpowering. we had to point flashlights at the wall as they wanted to keep working past daylight.

The project is moving forward in so many ways. More news soon.

Tab