PLUMBING: Plumbing, plumbing, and more plumbing. Blu HATES plumbing. He is almost done with the kitchen/dining facility and will move on to the orphan house from there. They are doing all of the plumbing with galvanized steel, so there is a lot of pipe threading being done.
ELECTRICITY: Zesco came and inspected, and it did not go well. Another man did the inspection (apparently the man in charge) and he was very rude and gave us yet ANOTHER list of things we need to fix/do differently. We finally decided to get them to give us a quote so they can come and do it themselves. SOOOOO frustrating...electricity does not look like it will be in our near future.. please pray!!!
SCHOOL: School is going great--the kids absolutely love it and the teachers are doing a great job!
KITCHEN: Kalenga experimented with banana bread and pizza this week! We walked in one day to find the staff eating bread topped with jelly and chocolate cookies for breakfast....we'll have to do a session on nutritional meals for sure! :)
ORPHAN HOUSE: I spent the week painting the orphan house. We are now cleaning the floors and in the next 2 weeks will be furnishing the house and getting ready for some little children to move in! Exciting!
And below you can see the pics of the new buildings we are working on! Thanks for praying for us here at New Day as we are working HARD!
Our lettuce got a little tall before we picked it.. :) And I promise, my kids are usually clothed... well maybe promise is too strong of a word...
We tiled for the first time ever--love my new bathroom floor! The same color as the Mapanza dirt! :)
The foundation for our donated 40 foot container that will arrive next week! Yay for storage at New Day!
The foundation for our guest house (which will house 2 full-time volunteers starting in January 2012, as well as future teams and volunteers!)
The footings and box are done for the Wilcox foundation!
Pounding the dirt and getting ready to pour the slab for the Wilcox house!
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