Meeting with the village elders of the Koromasilaia community.
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Old building on the site, which was no longer being used,having been described as a deathtrap for the pupils. Demolished on the first day to make room for the new building.
An overview of the village.
The health center and looking at the town from the overview.
This is what the village settings looks like.
From the center of the village.
Panning to show the Junior Secondary School built by SfS in 2020 and an outbuilding used as a library (that needs serious rehab to be really safe and functional).
The layout has been done and work starting on the foundation trenches.
Two schoolgirls passing with their bicycles (which were provided by Schools for Salone in 2022). Another 470 bikes were just distributed to schools around SL this past fall, including more to Koromasilaia and Madina.
Digging of the trenches starts.
April 5: The chairman of the school helping in the digging of the foundation trenches for the new Senior Secondary School building.
Laying out digging the foundation trenches and the column posts finished. We are hoping to get cement next week because we have storage of cement in Kabala [note: the largest nearby town, population ~ 19,000].
April 9: Today we managed to get a few hundred bags of cement. the cement is scarce in Kabala. Off loading what we have today.
April 10: We started erecting the pillar columns for the foundation. This started late due to a shorted of imported materials in Kabala. We managed to get some materials yesterday. Here, we are putting the local materials together.
Steel binding work going on.
Steel binding rods are prepared for all the columns of the building.
Steel rods for the pillars erected.