This week has been good but busy (as always)! The weeks just seem to fly by. I wanted to talk more about the projects this time to catch you up:
Bethany Kids Children's Center:
This is the main project that we came to work on. We are heading into Nairobi next week to sign the contract with a company called Itabuild that will build it for us! This is a very exciting point in the process. Once we sign the contract, we will turn over the site to them after 2 weeks and they will move in and get started. There are still some ground clearing items that they must do, so the actual getting started on the building will be a bit down the road. They have to move the Quonset Hut pictured below:
The Sanitation System:
The hospital is really doing a great job moving forward on the Sanitation system. So much has been done. They have trenches dug from the hospital all the way down to the old oxidation pits (about 1/2 kilometer). The pipes arrived this week and they will get started installing them this coming week. Here are a few pictures of what is going on:
The men enjoying some Chai
A hand washing station
temporary small Oxidation pit
digging trenches
As you can see, things are moving along well. We are still on schedule and Mungu Akipenda (God Willing) we will have a new, functioning sanitation system early next year!
The New Water Supply:
There is another on going crisis involving water here. The main water supply tank above the hospital is about to fail. You can see the bulge in the tank in the picture below! We think the rubber lining on the inside is all that is keeping it from rupturing. It is a 300 cubic meter tank (80,000 gal), and if it breaks, that is a lot of water that will coming barreling down on a motel and the hospital.
An old picture of the tank
The bulge!
Jim trying to save the world!
As you can see, this is a significant problem! The hospital is procuring some smaller tanks to be able to replace this if it ruptures. But, the fix for now is to put a belly band on it to stop the seam from getting larger. Hopefully, this will happen next week and we won't have "The Flood."
Palliative Care (Hospice Care):
The building is moving along nicely. The Hospice Care team is excited about finally getting to move in. They are starting to paint the inside this week and should be turning the building over in Oct (maybe even Sept). Here are some recent pictures:
This building will eventually have another 2 stories on top of it. But for now, the hospice people will have this floor to themselves at least until money can be found to build up!
CT Scanner:
Looks like we will have the scanner operating by early November. Some people from the states are coming to help hook it up at the end of Oct. This period of time looks like some kind of convergence though!
1. Another EMI team is getting together to possibly come at the end of Oct.
2. Our EMI Kampala office wants us to come there (Uganda) at the end of Oct for some meetings.
3. The CT Scanner hook up team will be here.
4. SAT testing for Trevor happens at the end of Oct.
So, we will just wait and hope that all things line up in series and not in parallel!
Jim and I are both fully involved with Trevor's class as they plan for Banquet. It is a very fancy diner and play prom type thing that the Juniors put on for the Seniors in February. We will be working every week end from now until then to put it together. The worst thing about it is that the meetings are every Friday night and most Saturdays. This wipes out Pizza nights on most week ends! How sad is that!
Hope you are all doing well. Psalms 46:10 says, God says, “be quiet and know that I am God.
I will be supreme over all the nations.
I will be supreme in the earth.”
Let Him rule your life and He will take you to places you can't even imagine!
In His Hands,
Jullie T.
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