Up! Up! And away…

March 9th at 9pm I will fly out and the mission will begin. As a case study for finishing my diploma at FAUP (Porto Architectural School), I've decided to volunteer and join A4A (Architects for Aid) in one of their humanitarian architecture projects. The projected on which I've been assigned is the construction of the LCCU (Lesotho Children Counseling Unit) centre in Lesotho. The building has been halted and an assessment, survey and new proposal and program will be drawn up in order that the building might finish to be built. Once this is completed a second trip will be organized and I'll be overseeing the building on site. The objective of this blog is to keep record of the work that is being done, both for the benefit of the members of A4A in London, FAUP to whom I'll also be reporting, my own record as well as friends and family that might want to know what I'm up to. Please comment on any post that you have an opinion, as this will undoubtedly help me in the completion of my thesis. Disclaimer: The information displayed on this site has not been previously edited or checked by any A4A staff and I'm the sole responsible for it's contents. A4A or any of the other involved organizations are not to be hold responsible on any account for what is published on this blog.

Monday 11 June 2007

Drawings delivered

Not much to say about today…

At about 10 o’clock I got a call form Ntate Linankane, saying that we had a bit of a problem with the steel company… He was telling me that they didn’t mange to manufacture the steels with the amplitudes we needed… It sounded worrying so I asked him to meet me at my office.

He came and when he was there he showed me a sample of what they could do. It looked okay… Just needed to be bent a bit more to get the angle right, but for some reason that I could not understand it wasn’t possible! So as I was trying to find a way to achieve the needed angle, he suggested that they could just get them like that and they would hammer them on site to its final shape! Great problem solved!

We then had a brief conversation of what needed to be done, and he seemed pretty confident that it all would happen on time! I told him I’d be there tomorrow to speak to the electrician and arrange for the conduits to be put in the right places.

But in order for that to be done I had to deliver the new drawings on site today. I did so and whilst I was there I also helped Ntate Tau to change the film in the photographic camera so that our inside view of project could continue to develop!

But before I went there I stopped by Lydia’s to give her copy of the contract for the building project. Whilst I was there I met a group of American students that are trying to help fund Lydia’s operating costs… It seemed to me as though they need to speak to Sentebale.

Well, maybe more happened today than I had said at beginning!

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