Today was a historic day here at the mission. After more than a year of planning, design, fundraising, construction, decorating and cleaning...the Samartha Saxena Memorial Learning Resource Center was officially opened today. Under a blazing Indian sun, with hundreds of parents and students in attendance, with honored guests and longtime friends in town for
Those who have been following for a while now know that we have been working for the last year on constructing the Samartha Saxena Memorial Learning Resource Center. This new building will be a huge asset to our orphanages school campus. Contained within it's walls is the largest library in our district, a computer
Our Learning Resource Center is really coming along well. We have had a huge number of people donate time and energy to complete all major construction on the building. Our carpenter Ganesh is now working hard to construct all furniture before our May 19th opening. If you would like to come along for the
In an effort to direct water run off, provide a mounting point for solar panels and deflect much of the suns heat, our new Learning Resource Center will be fitted with a tin roof, similar that the one on our Primary School building. The Primary School roof. The metal frames are welded together
Our Learning Resource Center is still under construction; our builders have completed work on the concrete slab of the floor. On top of this slab they have begun installing Kota Stone tiles to complete the job. It is very exciting to see the building taking shape more and more every day. Concrete floors now
Work continues up at our Learning Resource Center with most inside and outside plastering work nearly complete. As the monsoon winds down and the weather continues to cool, we look forward to even more progress in the weeks and months ahead. This project is really coming together! More than half of the exterior is
Up at our school, big changes have been happening at our Samartha Saxena Memorial Learning Resource Center with new walls appearing and quickly being plastered. Thanks to a secure roof on top, the monsoon can't stop this progress, enabling us to potentially complete all work short of the painting. That we will have to
It's been a truly mammoth week of working hard and playing hard. And though we are exhausted and (to be honest) feeling a little bit uninspired in front of the computer at this moment, the results of all of our labor have been well worth the effort. If this week's prayer letter feels a little
Over the last 8 months we have been saving up funds with the support of HADA Australia and some friends and family; the time has finally come. Rick has been out with his measuring tape, Clifton has been in discussions with our design team at EMI² and we now have a plan to put a
We have great progress to report on our Learning Resource Center. This library/computer lab for our school will be completed later this year, but like all buildings, it goes up one brick at a time. The footings are now complete and by the end of the week the whole foundation will be done. Columns are
