Pachacamac April Update

The past month has seen the waste water treatment system near completion and today we are finishing installing a fence around the whole project and next week we can try it out.

This past week the footings for house 4 were poured, all the conduit for plumbing and elctrical were installed and the floor was poured. This week the coulmns will be formed and poured and the house will begin to take shape.

Finally our kitchen cupboards and bedroom closets arrived this week for house 1. The work took way longer than we expected but it is very beautiful. We contracted the work out to a home for deaf children here in Lima. They have a woodworking shop where the kids learn skills and they have a side business making doors, cupboards or anything made of wood. Windows and screens have been completed on house 2 and some lovely granite countertops were installed in the kitchen.

It has been a while since we have taken a photo of the Kids Alive Peru Construction team so this week Brenda came out to the worksite to surprise us with a request. Although we don't have on our Sunday best as far as clothes, here is an updated photo of Eduardo and I.

We want to send out a special thanks to all of the service teams that come down to Peru to work with us. Without you and your help, the work here would not advance at the rate it does and we would not be able to provide the lovely homes that we have for our family here.

Calvary Baptist/LAM Team 2

The past 2 weeks we have had the second team of the year here from Calvary Baptist Church Oshawa and Latin American Missions. This team is very skilled and very experienced and they go on several missions trips each year. The team completely wired and installed the electrical pannel in house 3 as well as completely painting the house.

The team also installed 12 doors and door jams in house 2. At times it was a little hectic with a guy there working on window screens and 2 other guys installing countertops.

Amongst all of this teams knowledge is a great understanding of water systems and how they can be optimised to make them more efficient. Here is a tank that was previously installed but the team need to raise to make their system work. With this sytem all 6 of our houses will be able to run off of 1 automatic level switch. Near the end of week the electricians were running out of work so I went looking for something for them to do. They agreed to go to Manchay to our "Oasis" site to wire and hook up electrical in our new office building.

Thanks very much to all of the people who came on the 2 Calvary/LAM teams and did all of the great work and were so fun to work with. Also a very special thanks to everyone who supported Calvary Baptist Church Oshawa in their CD sales fundraiser.