Well as you can see by the date of the previous post it has been a while since I have updated the blog. Sorry to all of you who follow it faithfully. I guess with a streak of teams keeping me busy I have just gotten away from it.
In Manchay at the Oasis Care Center we have laid grass in our new park area. We have poured concrete on another nearly 20 meters of driveway. We have removed the mountain of rubble from outside at the street. We have finished the new office complex and everyone is enjoying their new surroundings. Our new moms clothing business has moved into their new workshop and are turning out lots of clothing. We added another section of fencing to our volleyball court which is helping to coral the balls better. We cut out the midsection of the staircase leading upstairs of the workshop and put in a landing which is used to get to the second floor of the office building. As you can see there has been a lot accomplished in the past couple weeks. Thank you to all the work teams who made all of this possible.
Work in Pachacamac has been kind of slow for the last little while. That is not to say that it hasn't advanced at all but we can only be in one place at a time. Construction is just beginning on the 5th house which we are very excited about. The kitchen and bathroom counters have been built in the 3rd house and the 4th house has been painted with primer. A team from Bethel Church which was comprised of mainly young people did a huge cleanup on the property and then laid gravel on the driveway and some sidewalks. Lately we have started our garden project with which we will start growing food for our rabbit project. We have also gotten fed up with our water treatment system not running at optimum potential, so we consulted the engineer another time and he has us filling the filter with more plants. This week we will work more on the garden project to get some seeds in the ground and buy tiles for the third house.
Also in the last couple months I made a trip to Andahuaylas. There I visited a childrens home which has recently come under Kids Alive. I checked out the construction of their new homes and visited many hardware stores to see what materials are available. The trip was very exciting and the construction was very impressive.
