The work at the Teremi and Chwele schools is coming along quickly. During the site visit in April, the contractor had the walls complete, the roof trusses installed at Chwele, and was about to begin working on the windows and doors.
This is the outside of the Chwele School girls dormitory, showing the completed walls and the roof trusses in place.
The inside of the girls dorm, with the roof trusses in place, but no corrugated roofing in place yet.
This is the metal for the Teremi dormitory’s roof, being stored and welded at Chwele and then transported to the other job site.
Welding the veranda at Chwele.
Interior of Teremi dormitory, finished walls but no trusses in place yet.
Back wall at Teremi.
Veranda at Teremi.
Another project is Mkokoni, which is a small isolated town along the coast. We have to access it by water, taking an hour boat ride from Manda Bay to this school. The project entails the renovation of two buildings and the construction of a third classroom.
These are pictures of the two renovated buildings. They were thatched roofed and had poor mortar work prior to this contractor renovating them and putting on corrugated iron roofs.
This is the new building under construction. The ground there is loose sand, which forced a long design period determining the correct design so that the foundation would not settle/crack.
All the sand in the middle of each of these foundation walls had to be excavated out and filled with crushed coral rock. All of this work is done by hand with just basic tools, no backhoes, no power tools, just backbreaking work.
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