Since the worksite is located at the top of a mountain,
moving materials for the project proved challenging. With the community president promising 30
helpers, a community work day was organized.
Our team was cautiously optimistic that a substantial number of people
would show up, but we feared solid days of carrying materials ahead if they
didn’t. Due to the efforts of community
leaders and Graciela, 47 community members arrived to help! People, young and old, carried a cubic meter
of sand, a cubic meter of gravel, over 200 cinderblocks, several one
hundred-pound bags of cement, and an enormous water tank up to the site. This volume of materials really helped us understand what the air at 12,000 feet is like.
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| Half way up the hill! |
Meanwhile, others excavated the site to make room for the materials and the chlorination system, digging for over five hours.
The community work day was a success, enabling the
engineering team to pour a concrete pad the next day. The work day also resulted the second of
several community meetings about the project.
This meeting produced a commitment of several volunteers per day to the
engineering team’s construction efforts, and the community members voted to
fine households that didn’t help out!
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