Author: Bethany

Emanuel’s oldest brother, Amani, is helping mix and ready cement for the workers.

Off to buy a truck load of pebbles for the foundation.

 

Pebbles are hand shoveled onto the truck. No bobcat to scoop them up and load them.

Most everything is done by hand.

Two different sizes pebbles were purchased.

2 truck loads of larger pebbles — $230

1 truck load of smaller pebbles — $414

First piece of hand machinery I have seen. The machine is compressing the foundation land.

A tank of water was brought for making cement.

12 liters of water — $110

100 bags of cement — $551

Emanuel is keeping meticulous records.

And I double check it on my excel program 🙂

No photos today, but I was told pebbles arrived and were added to the foundation.  Emmanuel reflected on the progress and wrote this Facebook message.

Wednesday, September 13th, the land is officially cleared, and ready for construction.  Ground is broken for the school!!!

Environment Clearance — $69

11 workers today

Contractor payment for digging — $184, which comes to no more than $15 a day for each worker.