Jambo!
Hey, it's really tuff to get time on this computer and of course it's dial-up so anything we do takes much time and is going to be slow. The power went out last night preventing me from adding to this blog. Hey, that happens quite often... It's Tanzania for Pete's sake!
I'll try to give a synopsis of what we've been up to so far. As of Monday morning, the interior walls were up on 85% of the rooms, mesh is on most of the walls but there is no concrete installed yet. IHP has no concrete (very little) and the law was temporarily changed on the exempt status of NGO's and the cost would have been at least 20% higher to buy concrete. We are hanging suspended ceiling tiles from the rooms that are all meshed for concrete (trying to anyway - the ceiling tiles and hanging rails did not match and we had to send some back and get the right parts). We have had to send Celli (Our right hand man and foreman) shopping many times as we did not have all materials needed. He was also sick on Monday so that slowed building progress down too. We are still adding interior stud walls and meshing walls on the interior that were not done. A lot of medical equipment supplies and building materials are stored in the building. This makes it very hard to move around and have a space to work. We have also built some shelving for the storage container office and we are building other shelving for Patricia ward. Some of the crew has been working at Patricia ward to get it fully up to speed, organizing, cleaning and assembling things, putting some stuff into the storage conatainers. I believe some painting is also going on. We're making progress ! We have new studs walls up for 2 new rooms, we're putting the ceiling into 2-3 at this time and finishing all the meshing.
More to come.
Dave.
Hey, it's really tuff to get time on this computer and of course it's dial-up so anything we do takes much time and is going to be slow. The power went out last night preventing me from adding to this blog. Hey, that happens quite often... It's Tanzania for Pete's sake!
I'll try to give a synopsis of what we've been up to so far. As of Monday morning, the interior walls were up on 85% of the rooms, mesh is on most of the walls but there is no concrete installed yet. IHP has no concrete (very little) and the law was temporarily changed on the exempt status of NGO's and the cost would have been at least 20% higher to buy concrete. We are hanging suspended ceiling tiles from the rooms that are all meshed for concrete (trying to anyway - the ceiling tiles and hanging rails did not match and we had to send some back and get the right parts). We have had to send Celli (Our right hand man and foreman) shopping many times as we did not have all materials needed. He was also sick on Monday so that slowed building progress down too. We are still adding interior stud walls and meshing walls on the interior that were not done. A lot of medical equipment supplies and building materials are stored in the building. This makes it very hard to move around and have a space to work. We have also built some shelving for the storage container office and we are building other shelving for Patricia ward. Some of the crew has been working at Patricia ward to get it fully up to speed, organizing, cleaning and assembling things, putting some stuff into the storage conatainers. I believe some painting is also going on. We're making progress ! We have new studs walls up for 2 new rooms, we're putting the ceiling into 2-3 at this time and finishing all the meshing.
More to come.
Dave.
Honey,
ReplyDeleteTry singing that song we learned that I think is Swahili --
Uyai mose tinamate mwari
uyai mose tinamate mwari
Uyai mose tinamate mwari
Uyai mose zvino.
Come all you people come and praise the Most High
Come all you people come and praise the Most High
Come all you people come and praise the Most High
Come now and worship the Lord.
I love that song!
Love, Claudia
Dave,
ReplyDeleteThx for update. Bummed didn't get to talk to ya before you left, But will when you return. Good work over there.
Jon