July 2008_Updates

Guest House
All the roofing for the guest house has since been completed and they have started plastering the walls in all the rooms. To date, a total of about nine rooms including the bathrooms have have been plastered already.

Electricity
The transformer was mounted and we are now connected, we have electricity now at the site and the only thing that is left is the internal distribution from the sub-station to the various places as we have on the site plan. On Monday we will buy the material required for the distribution.

Classrooms
As the construction of the guest house is nearing completion, we are busy preparing for the construction of the classromm blocks. We now have the list of materials required to build one block and since Monday we have been busy to put in place mostly river sand and the three-quarter stones that are used to make the concrete for the columns. For the whole block, a total of 800m3of river sand and 800m3 of stones are required.

Water Project
We have purchased all the material requred to fit one bolehole and we are just waiting for the distribution of the internal electricity lines and connect the first borehole.

Text Books Donation
We received a very good donation of more than 100 text books for our school children from the Archbishop's office, a BIG THANK YOU...! This donation will see our children through and curb their difficulties of sharing text books.

Visitors From Italy
Saturday nexy week, 02 August will mark a day when we are going to receive three visitors from Italy from the Africa Oggi organisation. The purpose of the visit is to familiarise with us and to get involved with 'hands-on' the school project. We shall keep you updated on their arrival and stay.

This is one of the trees that was planted on the Ground Breaking Ceremony