Here is the latest update on the building progress at the camp. The structure above will be staff housing. This is where we will temporarily live.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Camp Housing
Here is the latest update on the building progress at the camp. The structure above will be staff housing. This is where we will temporarily live.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Camp Site Construction in Progress
We are so excited to see all the work that is being done on the camp land even though we are not in Uganda. This post is from our friends and partners Syd and Andrea Sparks.
Construction Site/Camp Land
Construction continues and we are making some good progress. It is exciting to see things go up. Here are a few pictures of what is happening. The photo above is the house in progress on the left hand side of the photo, the nearly completed bathing shelters which are a little hard to see but are right in the middle, and then the nearly completed pit toilets. The photos below are of our store room. The first one is before they roofed it and the second one after.
Storage Room
Pit Latrine
Construction has finally begun. Last week we broke ground and began working on the foundation for our first building. One thing that is quite different about the construction process over here is that there are no big machines to do the work for you. So everything that you see dug out in the photo was dug by hand. All of the rocks that are being used in our concrete mixture are broken by the man in the picture below. He has used a hammer to break most of it. How would you like to sit and break rock with a hammer and have to fill a dump truck full. Not my idea of fun but it is a job and he is earning money. The bottom picture is a 12’ long x 8’ wide hole that will eventually be a 10’ deep holding tank to collect rainwater (cistern). As you can see they ran into a big problem as they were digging. There is a very large boulder that they couldn’t just dig out. So they brought in the rock crusher and he went to work.
Construction Site/Camp Land
Construction continues and we are making some good progress. It is exciting to see things go up. Here are a few pictures of what is happening. The photo above is the house in progress on the left hand side of the photo, the nearly completed bathing shelters which are a little hard to see but are right in the middle, and then the nearly completed pit toilets. The photos below are of our store room. The first one is before they roofed it and the second one after.
Storage Room
Pit Latrine
Construction has finally begun. Last week we broke ground and began working on the foundation for our first building. One thing that is quite different about the construction process over here is that there are no big machines to do the work for you. So everything that you see dug out in the photo was dug by hand. All of the rocks that are being used in our concrete mixture are broken by the man in the picture below. He has used a hammer to break most of it. How would you like to sit and break rock with a hammer and have to fill a dump truck full. Not my idea of fun but it is a job and he is earning money. The bottom picture is a 12’ long x 8’ wide hole that will eventually be a 10’ deep holding tank to collect rainwater (cistern). As you can see they ran into a big problem as they were digging. There is a very large boulder that they couldn’t just dig out. So they brought in the rock crusher and he went to work.
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