ISPCC in Africa

“Good Morning! Good Morning”. It was far too early, and much too cold, to be waking up but this was our wake-up call each day.

Breakfast was served:

Work started in earnest that morning, clearing the gravel from the site while a small group went and gathered stones to use in the foundations. They returned when all the hard work was done…

We mixed the cement by with just our shovels, no cement mixers for us! We removed all the rocks from the trailer and placed them in the foundations. This was then covered by the cement and levelled off expertly:

Once the foundations were down, a local builder added the first layer of bricks. We needed this help because the whole building depended on how straight your first couple of layers were. We weren’t complaining mind!

We were shown how to make trusses for the roof and worked away for the afternoon doing this.

The kids thought we were doing a good job anyway

A job well done, the end of our first day.

See the full set of photos from Day 3.