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Materials for Haiti project are staged, awaiting loading into the container
Lake Union Crew and Holy Names Academy Junior rowers help load the water tower parts into container
Staking the building site
Grader leveling site
Kids fascinated by the grading machine
Hand-cranked carts deliver water to site
Helpers dig the footings for the building
The young kids set the rebar mats in the footings
The foundation gets poured on March 8
The little cement mixer and it's attendants get a break in the shade during the foundation pour
Fantastic balancing
Market day in Kenscoff
Spreading and compacting gravel base for the floor of the building.
Four of the 8 large columns are ready to be hoisted into place.
The Volunteer Mess Hall is ready for business.
The 8 main vertical columns are in. Our own post-industrial cathedral.
The telehandler hoists truss number 3 into place
Volunteer Rich tightens the truss in place
3 locals and volunteer Rich straddle the roof trusses to tie in the purlins
Rome and our translator, Job.
These guys are carrying traveling pharmacies.
The Kenscoff area is called the breadbasket of Haiti. Here's a nearby farm.
Perched on the building roof beams (purlins), the view to the mountains and sea is beautiful
Teamwork is everything! The orphans and volunteers hoisted and positioned the 4 end columns.
The end of a long day - happy workers who placed heavy beams with no heavy machinery.
The first completed construction project - our firepit. The local kids built the path.
The view of the building from the fire pit.
With the cross beams in, the first floor joist for the second story is put in place.
Volunteer Tim secures the x-bracing as more floor joists are bolted in place.
The new steps are poured and curing.
Our building at the conclusion of Volunteer Week 1
On his last day in Haiti, volunteer Tim is encircled by the kids, who sing songs and prayers
The Great Rock Wall of weeks 2 and 3!
The boys work hard to move dirt in preparation for gravel paths
Week 4 volunteer Jennie became master of the mud. And the kids - they loved her!
In celebration of mud - Barb, Jennie & Claudia with the boys
The boys take a nap after wrestling with the mud
Volunteers Barb and Claudia build the retaining wall next to the building.
Volunteer Abby's handiwork - piecing together the 2nd floor decking
At the end of week 4 there was gravel down everywhere volunteers work. All Hail Week 4 volunteers!
The welding machine from another era
Volunteer Claudia cares for one of the local children
Volunteers Nathaniel & Briggs attach girts
Nathaniel, Briggs and Rome install more girts
Working on the roof instulation
The famous welding machine
Our translator, Joab
Volunteers Nadeene, Josie and the boys
The volunteers and kids walk back home after getting the afternoon snack
Barb and Claudia install window jambs
The kids with their water scooter
Earthquake damage is still very evident. Local merchants carry on though.
A very common project site.
Rome and Briggs conquer the roof and its thousands of screws
Volunteers Kathy and Barb show off their window jamb
In 3 hours, the volunteers, assemble the water tower, dig out, frame, and pour base for water tower.
And the mixing begins for the second floor pour
Volunteer Shelly totes buckets of concrete as the second floor is poured one bucket at a time.
Second by section the floor is poured
Good thing the roof was on!
Prepping the first floor for rebar
Tying rebar in preparation for the first floor pour
Kathy, Shelly, Ro and Rome work on leveling the floor
Boss Rena delivers more rebar on his motorcycle
The pour continues, bucket by bucket.
The mouse tracking sheet
Stairs and balcony added
University of Wyoming football and volleyball player bucket brigade move pebbles to the playground
Volunteer Kimmy cleans inside of water tank
The water tank on its way to its home
Boss Rena, Joab, Jonas and Romario magically raised the tank in place.
Volunteers Sharon and Claudia begin the skim coating process around the base.
Volunteer Angela preps styrofoam base for building's belly band
Rome checks out latrine pit that Claudia, Kimmy and Charles sealed with tar.
Boss Rena and Jonas working on chicken coop.
Siding applied to the hill side of the building
Moving the scaffolding for the siders
Volunteers Kyle and Ann assemble window frames
Several of the Week 9 volunteers
The chicken coop.
The platform piece was missing, so our quick-on-their-feet team fabricated this aluminum platform
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Our trusty translator and new construction specialist :) Job, makes a tricky downspout turn work.
The goodbye party for the 7 boys from the orphanage - they worked super hard!
Our 7 boys in with their headlamps and Hands On for Haiti tshirts
The final facade - beautiful1
Almost all project elements are pictured - coop, water retention, latrines, playground & Center
All over, Rome packs up the shop to ship home for the next project.
Beautiful Haiti will stay in our hearts
 

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