Imagine our surprise!!! We were told that chairs were delivered one late afternoon while we were at the house. I had hoped to get pictures of the students unloading them.
With many of our Pre-Form students sitting two to a chair, of having the chairs pushed together to form a bench for four or five students, we were very excited to hear that we would be able to organize our rooms a bit in rows.
Not so fast! The factory in Iringa provided ready-to-assemble parts. It will be a few more weeks before the carpenters get to this project.
The construction of desks was determined to be more pressing, and because the Form IV students were involved with National Exams,
the noise of constructing desks was moved to a couple of empty bedrooms and the center room of one of the boy teacher's houses.
After the exams were completed, the Form IV classroom was converted into a storage and workshop for the finishing of desk tops and the construction of chairs.
The lumber for the tops of the desks was moved to the workshop via a fire line that stretched the distance of the campus.
They found that having each student carry a timber was resulting in too many "bonks".
Your Hands & Feet in Tanzania,
Gary and Joanne
