Week Five July 13- 19- A VERY TRYING WEEK

So the week started out really well with our contractor starting work on the first four classroom foundations. Then the work started to become very difficult. The first of a serious of unfortunate and trying events was trying to secure aggregate. The difficulty with securing aggregate was the local producers formed a cartel and would not sell it to us a reasonable price. As a solution we had to start trucking it in from over 30 km away. This was an enormous cost in fuel, which was almost as high as the cost of the material, but this was still a cheaper solution than buying from the people in our area. The second was thee injuries on the job site that required Jake to start his own hospital ambulance service, for emergency room and follow-up visits. The last of these hospital visits was delayed when Jake looked out into the distance and saw a big orange glow rising above the trees. This orange glow turned out to be the flames of five homes belonging to residents of Ntulya . Quickly he and Kishosha, our on the ground Sukuma expert rushed to the join everyone trying to help grab items from the homes before the were lost to the fire. If this was not enough after these unfortunate events, our contractor had a stroke and could no longer work on our project and Valerie got extremely ill.