Mark and I took CDR Fetters to our job sites at Teremi and Chwele after our trip through Tsavo.  These two jobs are our best in Kenya, with a very impressive contractor who is doing a great job and holding to a schedule.  Both of these schools are getting large dormitories, one is a boys dorm, the other is a girls dorm. 

 Our first stop was at Teremi, since they were actually pouring the foundation that day.  Anwar, the owner of the construction company (in the white hardhat) brought almost all the workers from the nearby Chwele site to help support the workers from Teremi to complete the pour in one day.  

Its a full production here in Africa, whereas in the states this would be easily accomplished with only a handful of guys, two concrete trucks and a pumper, there are nearly 100 men and women working at breakneck pace to keep the two cement mixers working optimally.

CDR Fetters and Capt Rausch overlooking the progress.

Teams of men kept bringing wheelbarrows of concrete as work leaders directed where to pour it and other try to set the construction joints in place at the right location.

At Chwele, the concrete work was completed the week prior, and work had begun on the walls.  The first layer is always the toughest, but even as we were there, we watched as the second and third rows were quickly laid into place.

Only a handful of workers were at this site, but even in the hour or so we were there, nearly two courses of brick were laid.

The overall condition that this jobsite is maintained at is immaculate.  I have been very happy with this contractor's work and I am happy that he is doing 3 out of the 4 current projects underway in Kenya.