Unfortunately little progress has been made since since the last update.
The money required in advance was too slow in arriving and work had to be suspended and plans changed.
The money wasn’t available to erect the roof and the cement mixer was “repatriated†temporarily, so work ground to a halt.
Just before Christmas we got the cement mixer back and the slab was laid during a break in the rains.
Business commitments and spare time constraints, not to mention lack of outside help, has pushed the Board Members on the Works Committee to hire a team of builders, who, this week started work on the walls of the first two classrooms, and foundations for the roof pillars.
The brick laying should now come on apace and we are hoping that by the end of February we will be erecting the trusses and purlins and by mid-March we should have the roofing sheets in place.
Then, again, it will depend on cash available as to the next step
Zesco is still dragging it’s feet so we still have no power for the bore-hole pump, so we are still having to truck in water for building.
However thanks to the rains, the trees – “Trichelia Emetica†that Ali Shenton planted along the driveway last year are flourishing and she is busy planting a “prickly†barrier(latin name will be advised) on the edge of the plot on the Nakatindi Rd.
