giovedì 27 agosto 2009

Soccer Team

We now have a social soccer team and it is doing quite good, we are trying to keep the workers together and the youths from the church so everyday after work when we are free we go to practice and then weekends we go to play against other teams and of late we have been winning against strong teams.

Africa Oggi

At the beginning of this month we had three guests from Africa Oggi, Milano, Italy; Nuccio, Desiree and Sabrina, they stayed with us for three weeks and they left Zimbabwe today for Italy. The three are just a great team I must admit, they kicked off their mission with an intensive Italian language course which they were conducting twice a day with the Oratory children in the morning and with the adults in the afternoon. To date the results of the course can be seen as all the children now know the basics of the Italian language.
The three were also part and parcel of the school project as they helped also quite a lot. We planted together about fifty trees around the guest house; they cleaned and
removed all the weeds in the orchard at the school; they worked day and night with the database for the Oratory children that is from the individual children details, photos and information pertaining to all the children and then fed all the details in the computers.

Project Update

Classroom Block:
The construction of the classroom block is nearing completion as we are basically left with fittings, all the major construction work has since been completed and to date the following has been accomplished:

• All the floors in the classrooms, offices, toilets and hallways are done.
• More than twenty doors have been put up out of a total of thirty four doors have been put up and by the end of the week all the doors will be in place.
• All the toilet seats and hand washing basins have been installed and are now awaiting testing as the water tanks that will supply the water are still yet to be connected.
• Final painting is also part of the work in progress as the are now painting with gloss paint from the floor up to the specified level to keep the walls clean after the school is open.
• All the glasses are now in place.
• The two main entrance doors have since been put up.
• The stair case is now completed and the flooring has been done, together with the glass bricks that give light to the stair case.
• We have since bought all the door handles and door locks for all the doors and the carpenters are busy installing them.


Administration Block:
The construction of the Administration block has kicked off at a rather fast pace and to date they have finished pouring the concrete, and raised all the sides to the window level.

The following material has been bought for the administration block :

• Door frames
• Window frames
• Ant poison for the prevention of termites.
• Bricks
• Cement

Since it is a ground floor building only, in these days we are running around getting quotations and negotiating good prices as the roofing material will be needed in two weeks time.