The past week has seen Hannah and me engaged in building projects at Kyampisi while Sonia continued working on the Annual Report for the End Child Sacrifice (ECS) Team at the Jesus House.
To be honest, I think I have blisters on my blisters (and I used gloves for much of the work).
The week began with us demolishing a brick house (on a block recently purchased by KCM) in preparation for laying the foundation slab for the new Medical Clinic.
I use the word 'demolish' as we had piles of debris - including broken bricks mortar, render and timber - all of which needed to be sorted and cleared.
It was a tedious job sifting through the rubble to find those bricks which weren't broken - and to stockpile them so they could be re-used when building the foundation slab.
It was an equally slow (and dirty) task to remove the remaining rubbish, including the slab of the house, so we could start digging the foundations for the Medical Clinic slab.
Although I've never used a jack-hammer, I'm sure it would have made the whole process a lot quicker. Similarly a bobcat would have been great - but that's not African-style!
The other major task was moving unused clay bricks from beside the new classroom block to the new Ministry Centre, where the team was building the side walls of the church and adding a brick edge to the stepped and elevated floor of the building.
As a team we loaded (and off-loaded) close to 1500 clay bricks into the tray of the KCM 4WD over many trips.
Today (Monday) we moved another 1500 bricks from beside the new classroom block to the site of the new Medical Centre.
Although I've lost a little weight while working in Africa this visit, I'm confident that I've put a couple of kilograms back on this week - in the form of muscles!
Praise the Lord for the blessing of hard physical work!
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