Day -27: Change of Mission

Update: 6th October
We heard today that last week, Childreach International (who are running the charity event) had to make the difficult decision to effect a project site swap for the RM Future Building Team
Childreach have been monitoring Ayaingi School during the past few months since they have been experiencing high water levels in their nearby river. Part of the RM Future Building project was for us to fund and assist in the construction of a vital bridge for the children of the school. This was going to involve us (and the local staff) being in close proximity with the river for extended periods of time in order to get the work done. Upon Child Reach's progress site visit last week, they had to reassess this risk and have since decided that this risk is to high for this particular project to continue at this time.
So what does that mean? Well, Uwa primary school is another school that Child Reach have recently been working on that also needs some real dedicated work to finish the job so the village can cut the ribbon on their school.
Uwa is an area rich with plantations, situated 60km from the nearest major town. The village live off the earth - coffee and bananas plantations.
Uwa has roughly 1,100 houses, with four people living in each, so approximately 4,400 people in the local community. Ironically, in costrast, this village is struggling with a severe clean water shortage at present.
The RM Future Building team will now be working at Uwa Primary School, who Child Reach have been working with since 2007. To date, Child Reach have carried out work building kitchens and toilets and a recent group has made a significant dent into the development work. What is left is a stark contrast between the complete and incomplete classrooms. The RM Future Building team will be returning to this site and completing the school to an equal level for all of the 429 attending children.
We will be:
- Refurbish two offices
- Refurbish two classrooms at hill level
- Reburshing 4 classrooms on ground level
That’s 8 rooms in total -  A lot of work!
We remain excited and motivated as we'll now be working longer and harder and making even more of a difference to this community...