A few First Aid patients followed the unloading of the metal roofing, but there was an air of great excitement and energy when trucks started arriving with building supplies.
The students swarmed over the trucks, unloading ceiling boards, paint, nails and sheeting.
VST was doing what they said they would do, and the villagers are responding in like manner with their side of the equation.
Reports are coming in from Idiwili, Iyula, Itewe, Ikuka, Ichesa, and beyond about bricks available for the Idigima project to complete the school buildings.
Timbers arrive for the trusses
Soaked by rains during the shipment, timbers are stacked for drying before being moved to the building site.
Bricks, bricks, and more bricks
Student streams (classes) have been taking turns loading up in the truck and being hauled to area villages where they will spend the day moving bricks from burn piles and loading the truck...again and again and again and again.
On the other end, students are called from class when the truck arrives. Actually, the truck arrives with its horn blaring, and students pour from the classrooms to meet it at the designated building site.
They carefully stack each brick on edge to protect it from rain damage. Small walkways form through the growing sea of bricks that will become the walls of future classrooms, science laboratory, community center and health clinic.
Stones and sand
Teacher Madam Odilia's son, Misheki, sits on a pile of stones . . . one of many, many piles . . . loaded by the hands of our students and hauled to the school.
The stones will be used for future foundations of additional teachers' houses, walls to join the buildings and enclose the campus compound, and possibly student dormitories. This foundation for two classrooms already has walls going up!
Sand is dug from the river, piled on the bank and later loaded into the truck or hauled by bucket to the building site.
Trusses in place
Meanwhile, on the other side of the school complex, trusses are being set in place.
This building and the adjacent one should be enclosed by the end of November, providing four new classrooms to our growing student body.
Cement floors
A huge truck rolled into Idigima this past week, and the students unloaded 300 bags of cement to be used for the floors and walks of the new classrooms.
2011 was a huge building year, now finishing 8 new classrooms and a laboratory building, thanks to the faithfulness of some blessed friends.
Your Hands & Feet in Tanzania,
Gary & Joanne
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