This up-date info together with some photographs, is part of an e-mail received earlier today from Kate Gumm at GUA Africa
Preparation work for the building of the five brand new classrooms has begun at the Mary John site. The AMA construction team (and some local parents) began clearing the site by uprooting the couple of trees that were in the way of the build. The area in and around the Mary John School is very green and has a great deal of vegetation, so in order to make room for this massive expansion in their size they will have to sadly take down two trees. The AMA team then set about taking the necessary measurements, and marking out the construction site from the rest of the school.
Once all these measurements and markings had been completed, the digging of the foundations could begin. As you can see in the photographs the labourers first remove the top soil to an average depth of 150mm from the natural ground level and then they excavate a trench foundation in the ordinary soil to a depth not exceeding 1,000mm from the stripped ground level. These foundations will then be filled with timbers, but we will update you with photographs with these in the next newsletter!
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