Everyone is pleased that we have been able to keep up a strenuous pace and are ahead of schedule based on the projections of when we thought we would complete the tasks assigned to our group. We have finished planting 70 trees ( which involved carting liters of water done to the site in jugs). We have also completed laying the concrete foundation for the house in which the teachers will live and have started laying block. The dirt around the bathrooms has been leveled and raked. All the work is done without the aid of machines.
The children have been a special blessing to all of us. The last few days children have lingered after school has been dismissed in order to help us. They have insisted on working side by side with us even though the work is arduous. Their faces glow with pleasure when they are told they are doing a good job (and they are). We have been blessed by their smiles and enthusiasm.
Swaziland is a beautiful, mountainous, and rugged land, but its people are the greatest resource. We have been privileged to work along side them. Kathryn
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