On Monday, January 11th, local masons began to excavate two trenches above the upper wall. Tomorrow we plan on packing our first tire to officially kick off our construction.
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Clementine Delivers Rocks
Rocks and other materials are hauled up the mountainside daily. Each family has agreed to deliver a total of 3500 large rocks to complete the drainage and well.
El Oso Samuel
Samuel carries bags of cement and sand up the mountain at least 50 times a day...notice that the bag is from a recent USAID food delivery.
Building drains
Lead mason Don Balta working hard to lay over 90 meters of drainage
Don Miguel
Miguel digging his well
Kelly and Masons
We travelled to San Juan Comalapa to learn how to pack tires and build a wall with the guys from Long Way Home.
Learning to pack tires
Solomei and Baltazar holding on to full load
The truck used is a 2 seater with a platform back, helpers from the community must stand up on the way out to load tires
Los Chorros Landslide
The road taken to Alta Verapaz was wiped out last January in a 2 km landslide...current road was constructed ¨below¨ landslide...
Loading tires
Driver Freddy and community member Solomei loading tires on the road to Coban
Boys being boys
I taught kids and TEACHERS how to make secondary colors and we painted the school´s name
Don Timoteo
Timoteo is the Alcalde Auxilliar(Mayor of village) of San Lucas. This is the first delivery of tires sent to the school. Before tires were kept in the main town. However, delivering tires directly to the community helped improve community involvement and made the project real
Easy delivery
These tires were donated by the Oficina De Caminos in town
Tire Donation
Men loading tractor tires
Tires Drying
Hearing Impaired students leared to make secondary colors and sign language while painting tires
High Schoolers Helping
Kids built stools out of tuktuk tires
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