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.

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Analysis

Yesterday I spent the day trying to tie up some of the (still) loose knots.

One of these is still the water situation. With Playpumps laying bellow the radar we have decided to start moving on to plan B, which in reality was plan A…


When the contractor priced he priced also for the water pump. Later when Playpumps said that they would donate a pump, we were happy and decided to go for that. As it seems that they will not be able to deliver. We have already moved back to sorting out this issue.


However before we do any trench digging or erect the tower, the water needed to be tested for quality. This was the task I started yesterday and completed today.


Yesterday I went to the water Lab, got the appropriate containers and arranged a time to deliver them back, and this morning I went to collect them and have already delivered them.


Fingers crossed now for the water to be suitable for drinking!


(results come back tomorrow)

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