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.

Thursday, 9 August 2007

Contractor for a day

I picked up the truck at 8:30 am, as had been organised yesterday, and by the time I had arrived on site and that truck was already on its way to load some stone another truck popped up at the entrance!

Yesterday we had none and today we had two! It was bound to happen! So Ntate Sello and I just did what needed to be done, we organized for one truck to stay and collect the stone that we’d already quarried and together with the other truck we sent off to buy the stone at another place.

Thanks to Sentebale’s willingness to speed up the project it was possible to pay off the stone and profit of the fact that we had 2 trucks! In total we managed to bring to site 10 loads (60m3) and tomorrow we will do an extra 7 which should allow us to have enough stone to complete both fills.

Somehow I cannot understand why it had taken so long to organize everything, I tried and it was easy… So now let’s just get all we need so that then we can cast the slabs and start cruising to completion!
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