Sarah's School - Part II
It has been all systems go with the work on Sarah's school. I really don't know where to start as so much has happened! Thanks again to all of you who have supported Sarah and Malchiory to fulfil their dreams (open a school of their own and live in a house that isn't shared - not unrealistic in our society).
This is a picture of the school just after we had started work on it. Most of these low branches have been cut off now to allow more light into the building. The door you can see leads into the classroom.
This picture shows the walls after they have been undercoated - they still look revolting. Everything out here gets dirty so quickly and isn't helped by us not having a supply of running water to wash things down with. After we'd undercoated the walls we started cleaned the ceiling only to discover that lots of the boards were rotten and needed replacing.
Do you like Adam's traditional African dress?! We don't have an
y 'painting' clothes with us!
We painted the new ceiling boards before they went up - much easier than using our rollers attached to sticks! The ceiling fitters then came and took the old ones down ready to fit the new boards. However, as the boards came down so did ten years worth of bat droppings - the smell was awful! After Malchiory had cleaned them up the ceiling fitters nailed the new boards up for us - they didn't have any ladders and instead balanced on a piece of wood which was placed precariously on two huge barrels! You can also see the new doors and shutters in this picture - don't they look fab?!
After we had undercoated the walls of all of the rooms we began to apply the colour. Sarah has chosen a pale green for the scho
ol room, a disgusting bright yellow colour for her bedroom and a nice cream for their living room. After she saw the yellow on the walls of her bedroom she wanted to exchange the cream - it took about 5 of us to talk her out of it! The classroom is now finished and looks amazing!
The school has been named 'Shining Star' as Sarah used to live in the old Marangu Shining Star restuarant. One of the volunteers designed a sign (sorry about the sideways view!) to go up outside the school and we have made leaflets to distribute around the local area.
I'll update again soon!
This is a picture of the school just after we had started work on it. Most of these low branches have been cut off now to allow more light into the building. The door you can see leads into the classroom.
This picture shows the walls after they have been undercoated - they still look revolting. Everything out here gets dirty so quickly and isn't helped by us not having a supply of running water to wash things down with. After we'd undercoated the walls we started cleaned the ceiling only to discover that lots of the boards were rotten and needed replacing.Do you like Adam's traditional African dress?! We don't have an
y 'painting' clothes with us!We painted the new ceiling boards before they went up - much easier than using our rollers attached to sticks! The ceiling fitters then came and took the old ones down ready to fit the new boards. However, as the boards came down so did ten years worth of bat droppings - the smell was awful! After Malchiory had cleaned them up the ceiling fitters nailed the new boards up for us - they didn't have any ladders and instead balanced on a piece of wood which was placed precariously on two huge barrels! You can also see the new doors and shutters in this picture - don't they look fab?!
After we had undercoated the walls of all of the rooms we began to apply the colour. Sarah has chosen a pale green for the scho
ol room, a disgusting bright yellow colour for her bedroom and a nice cream for their living room. After she saw the yellow on the walls of her bedroom she wanted to exchange the cream - it took about 5 of us to talk her out of it! The classroom is now finished and looks amazing!The school has been named 'Shining Star' as Sarah used to live in the old Marangu Shining Star restuarant. One of the volunteers designed a sign (sorry about the sideways view!) to go up outside the school and we have made leaflets to distribute around the local area.
I'll update again soon!
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