January 2009_Updates

Happy New Year to you all...!

The project of the classroom block is going on and they are almost done with the concrete footing and on the areas where they have already finished to do the concrete footing, the brick work has commenced up to the slab level. The contractors did not close for the festive season hence there is a lot of progress that has been going on as they only stopped working for three days during Christmas.

Next week we should be able to collect the reinforcement steel from South Africa as the company was closed for the festive season and we need to make a plan for the other material that the Engineers need for the plumbing and electrical joints, together with door frames that they said they will need in a few weeks.

The cholera situation has reduced in Chegutu but there are still some cases here and there and in this week some people went and stole from the cholera centre some buckets that were being used by the cholera patients to vomit and as toilets because the patients can hardly move as they will be seriously dehydrated. The buckets were sold in exchange for potatoes in the farms surrounding Chegutu and the people who bought them started to use them to store water for drinking and as of yesterday, many people were infected with cholera and eight people died.