Construction has (finally) started on Peace House Academy! These pictures are great because they show the site so beautiful and green because of the rain. Believe me, last month it was baked hard and dusty from the heat! It's amazing what a little rain will do--although it's amazing in a totally different way when you see what it does to the road. There are places that are almost impassable. The road to the school winds through maize fields, which have been planted with no thought to erosion prevention. Many of the fields have furrows that run perpendicular to the road with no contour farming, so the rain pours down the furrows onto the road, carrying away the topsoil. In fact, there are considerable erosion patterns on the school site that need to be dealt with to preserve the land as well. Bear with me...the upload speed over here means I can only upload a couple pics at a time, so there will be multiple posts to get everything up...
In February a group of terrifically amazing people from Chicago called Project 640 arrived in Arusha to have fun and do good works for PHA. Their efforts raised over $100,000 for our work! This is the (almost-finished) banda they began when they were here. On this day it was SO hot (over 90 degrees), yet inside it was cool and breezy! Great work guys!
The guest housing will be on the hill behind the banda. Here the bulldozer is leveling out part of the hill for the first guest house.
In February a group of terrifically amazing people from Chicago called Project 640 arrived in Arusha to have fun and do good works for PHA. Their efforts raised over $100,000 for our work! This is the (almost-finished) banda they began when they were here. On this day it was SO hot (over 90 degrees), yet inside it was cool and breezy! Great work guys!
The guest housing will be on the hill behind the banda. Here the bulldozer is leveling out part of the hill for the first guest house.
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