Today we spent the entire day at the project site. Yesterday, the contractor had 5 laborers there. We quickly realized with just those 5, we were going to have no chance of getting very far quickly on this excavation of the floor of the church. It is roughly 5000 sft and they need to take 18" of dirt out of the entire floor. No machines, just sweat. After a long day, we made some progress. We talked to the contractor about why he did not have more help. He said that he budgeted for 5 laborers. We asked him how much it would cost to get some more for 2 days. We all pooled together and put in $200 total of cash. That bought us 25 additional laborers, for 2 days work. This morning we arrived to a room full of guys digging. We got a lot accomplished today!
The kids have started to realize that most of us are packing candy! That brings even more smiles. All of the kids say when they see you, how are you? If you say to them, "How are you?", they reply, "I am fine, thank you!" So cute.
When we were taking one of our many breaks from the manual labor, we noticed that as the kids came out of their classrooms, they had to jump about 18" down from the doorway to the ground. For 20 years this school has been there and it was like this? We took about 30 minutes and some stones that were excavated and build a basic set of steps for them. When the kids came back around, they were so excited to be able to walk down their new steps, it was like Christmas!!
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