Weekly Report for Dulzura

Week one with the new staff and Project Directors ended with all personnel having a good week. Much work was accomplished.

The B house has taken shape with all the interior and exterior walls standing and the trusses in place. We are fortunate to have a long-term volunteer in Dulzura who has experience using the Bobcat and much work was done to the B’s including leveling the yard around the house, back filling and preparing to have the decks and sidewalks poured. We are preparing for the framing and roof inspection next week.

At the T house, we have finally progressed past the mudding and taping, and have started the interior painting and trim. Work here is progressing well and the hope is for the house to be ready prior to the interns return home at the end of the month. There are still numerous small things to do, however we are moving forward.

The stem wall at the C house saw concrete between the forms on Friday and the materials have been delivered for the floor joists to be installed early next week.

The weather this week has been excellent to get all our work done. It has not rained here since the interns arrived on May 10 and so there have been no delays. God has been us at the project to protect us this past week with no injuries to report or illnesses. We have also been protected from the creatures in the area, namely snakes.

We were privileged to have Lois Nickel, from the MDS office in Winnipeg, and Kenton Lobe, instructor for CMU Disaster Management Program, as well as Marc Yoder, consultant for Hesston College, join us for a few days and work along side of our interns and long-term staff. We trust they enjoyed it as much as the interns did.

We were also happy to have Kevin King at the project as he toured all the sites and interacted with the interns. It was great to see the expressions on the faces of the interns when they had the privilege of meeting Kevin at the project.

More coming next week.

Bert, Doris, Dick, Esther, Alta, Kerney, Ginny, Jonathan, Melvin.