February 2009_Updates

Classroom Block
The construction of the classroom block continues at a very good pace and the contractors are doing great works which will mark a great achievement for Chegutu and the whole community at large.

Two weeks ago we went to South Africa and we managed to acquire the following material :

* Plumbing material (water pipes, drainage pipes, toilet seats, urinaries, basins for washing hands)
* Electrical material
* Reinforcement steel




To date the contractors have put all the concrete footing for all the rooms on the ground floor and they are only left with the toilets as they have to finish to lay the plumbing pipes for water and sewage. Concurrently, the brick layers are busy building with bricks inbetween the columns and they have already done more than fifty percent of the walls from the ground level to the beam of the first floor. with some of the classrooms with door frames already.

We have just finalised on the schedule of all the window frames that are needed and next week we will be getting quotations and we should purchase them as soon as we get the best price.

Donations
In this past few weeks we received the following donations :

* There is an organisation in Germany which is donating a new car for the Congregation and they said they will give €23,000 torwards the purchaing of the new car, we got quotations from South Africa and we sent to them.
* We also received a donation of 1 tonne of mealie meal from the company we bought the bricks for the project.
* Due to the cholera outbreak and the lack of water in the community, UNICEF approached us and we had a meeting with them, they were asking if we could help with water supply to the people who in the neighbourhood and so we agreed to give water but we told them we do not have a pump to pump water for the designated people and so UNICEF donated a new pump and a tank that will be used as a reserve so the people can collect water for domestic use and help curb the cholera outbreak.