April 2007: Construction starts on weekly boarding housing for over 300 students which will open in November 2007

The land before construction started

Gemma with the local architect and engineers on the project which has to move very fast to be finished by November.

Boarding Houses

May 15th 2007: 3 girls houses going up (each will house 64 students). The boys houses are at the far end after the food hall.

Foundations of one of the girls houses up close.

1st June: Foundation slabs are now done as is the formwork for the 1st floor slab

20th July: The builders are now onto the 2nd level.

On the 6th August Australian High Commissioner Lisa Filipetto, her husband Peter and their friend Bobby Suru came all the way from Kenya to come and see the school and it's developments. Below from left is Lisa, myself, Bibi Hans (who is the Chairman of our School Board) and Bobby.

IT OPENING 6th NOVEMBER 2007

The Dining Hall

15th May: The large floor of the food hall will be poured mannually- no cement truck, just small cement mixers and lots of local people to help.

20th July 2007: The slab has been poured, the columns and beams finished and the massive trusses (which will hold the roof) under construction.

Below is Bibi Hans (Chairman of our School Board), Lisa (Australian High Commissioner based in Kenya) and Kim (who helps me run the school)...all admiring the great trusses!

The Football Field

Water tower: The 5 level water tower has started going up. It will be finished by the end of October. It will have water tanks on top of it which will provide enough water pressure for all the boarding houses.

Below is the finished water tower and store rooms!