Construction Update

Once the ten rows of bricks are complete and dry, wood forms are placed around the four corner re-bar structures and they are filled with concrete - which ties all the walls together.

Corner Supports

Mixing Concrete in the Lane

With a full day work on Friday and  half-day of work on Saturday, our status on the three construction sites is as follows:

• Site A - Bricks completed, the corner supports filled, and a special concrete slab was added to the back of the facility to be used as a communal washing area
• Site B - Bricks complete and corner supports filled
• Site C - Bricks complete and currently drying

Bird's Eye View of Site C

The Washing Area on Site A

We were told that of the six WatSan groups in Addis so far, we have accomplished the most in terms of construction progress, but we had a lot of local help. The ladies at Site C even provided food with coffee today. Although there were no takers from our group. That was OK, though - it was certainly appreciated by the local workers and disappeared in about three minutes flat.

Helpers

Team Member Sahand with Local Helpers

A light snack with Coffee?.

On Site A we are also well known to the local kids and our skipping ropes and water-based tattoos were a definite hit.

Skip-Rope Championship

Tattoo Flash-Mob