Thursday 16 February 2012

A team of eight men arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, February 14.  Gary Nordeman and his son Shane, Gary Aikema, Dan Vanderveen, James Poort, Andrew Bosma, Dave Otten, and Kevin Eigenbrood.  They have a lot of big projects that they are going to be working on for 10 days.

Some of the work that they are doing is:
     1.  Building a new food depot.
     2.  Building a roof over the propane storage area.
     3.  Building two more storage cupboards.
     4.  Building a library.
     5.  Repositioning three walls so that we can have three bigger classrooms.
     6.  Building a playground.
     7.  Putting in a couple of washrooms.
     8.  Building awnings over the windows.
     9.  Building a new wheelchair ramp.
     10.  Putting razor wire above the gate.


A lot of the wood for building depots and shelves.


All the baggage that the team brought.

Our new Makita drill set.  Yeah team, thanks for bringing it.


Gary installing shade cloth for the playground.
 
Taking apart a platform for the new playground.

Father son combo, what a team!

Cutting pieces off, takes three.

Gary teaching the difference between a Robertson and a Philips
  
Drilling for tapcons.

Securing the food depot to the floor.

Daniel hard at work, loves the change of pace.
  
Kevin teaching Frankilin how to use a skill saw.


Trying to fix the welder!
 
The shade clothe is almost done.



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