The base for the foundation is about half complete. The District engineer came today and declared the work "good" and pronounced that "you may continue."
We are porting river water, one container at a time, to the site with 2-3 containers on the back of a bicycle. Some of the women carry a water bucket on their head and walk back and forth. The river is just over a half mile away. We are also, one by one, moving the boulders and stones into place for the foundation. This part of the construction is the most labor-intensive and hard. There are about 50 workers each day so far after the first day. Overall, we are on schedule. We will begin to purchase cement and other materials by week's end or early next week and use the village tractor to transport the materials from Magugu, which is about 15-20 miles away.
It has been mostly overcast the last two days (but no rain) and this has been a welcome relief. It is still hot, hard, dirty, and taxing manual labor. I think about construction equipment in the States and how lucky we are to have bulldozers and lifts.
The mascot has disappeared.
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