Everyone at work again!

15th July, 2007

The violent and heavy rain of the last few weeks has stopped but for a while it appeared that no more work would be done on the construction.
On visiting the yard on 8 July everything looked unchanged. But if you look at the picture you see that all the wooden formers have been removed. They still lie jumbled on top of one another but tidying them up seems to be a job for tomorrow.

On the day after, eight workers were present. They laid all the pieces of timber in a neat pile so that the yard could become safe and accessible again.

Materials are brought onto the site

On July 12 a small lorry carrying a large tank with water needed to make wet mortar, arrived. Yet more sand and stones have been unloaded in the yard. It means that we can start the work again. In the yard there are no wheelbarrows or mechanical machines in use. Everything has to be carried by the workers themselves. One photo shows a worker sifting the sand to extract a grade suitable for mixing with cement to make mortar or concrete.

Eleven workers arrive at work

There are many people in the yard today. Eleven workers turned up to start the job. The workers hoist the stones onto their heads and carry them to the places where the walls are to be built. One of them mixes sand and cement in the correct quantities to make wet mortar.

The foreman inspects and keeps an eye on the work.

If  the workers can continue at this pace and there are not too many obstacles then we will finish the walls rapidly.

Hopeful !

The SISP centre is not ready yet, but it is nevertheless really encouraging to see that, with the support of so many people, there will be soon a new shelter for the many children and the employees of SISP!

background and earlier reports