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.

Sunday 17 June 2007

still as normal…

Although the curfew was declared on Friday night not much has changed, yesterday I avoided going to site just to see how it would develop, and since nothing serious seemed to happen. Today I decided to resume my life as usual (or at least between 6am and 6pm).

The trip out to site was as always calm, apart from the stop at the road block, and once on site work seemed to be proceeding well. We now have 3 slabs down, and by the end of tomorrow we will probably have another 2! (steel mesh was being placed into one of them when I arrived, being lifted over the wall and laid on the floor inside) Block A is speeding up. On Block B we are still organizing the stone but I hope that once we have got that on site it will catch up!

My trip to site today was also dedicated to thank the guys for the good job they have been doing! I decided to give them the copies of the photos they took and also some of mine! I gave them to Tau and asked him to distribute them at the end of the day.

I also visited Lydia to show her the layout for her new house. She was not quite happy with it yet so I decided that I will try and organize a meeting between her and Molope. He needs to get used to it at the rhythm that that project is going I doubt that I’ll have it sorted by the time that I’ve left, it might also be better to coordinate it that way…

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