I have not had time to make any posts until now. Sue just took off this morning for three weeks in India. She will be evaluating teachers in the slum school and setting up for the next school year. She returns in three weeks.
I have been getting plans ready and checking on material prices for the two new child homes we are getting ready to build in Opportunity Village. I think the contractor will be selected next week. These first three homes are pretty large, and may eventually see duty as a crisis center for abused or pregnant teenage girls and an infant care center. The next homes we build after these will be smaller, holding up to eight girls.
High voltage electric power has been run along our access road and across the canal. We’ll soon run the low voltage lines into the first housing area that will eventually have sixteen homes. I would have preferred to run the power underground as is done in all new areas in the U.S. With new direct burial cable the cost of underground power in the U.S., even high voltage, is not so much. In Thailand, especially up in this area underground power is still pretty new and its cost is very high.
Today Uan and I hope to get out to some window and door manufacturers to check prices and sizes. I have to finalize the foundation piling position four our next houses (numbers 4 and 5). The pilings next to another house must be driven before that house is built, or the shock from driving might cause cracks in the concrete.
