Feel the vibe - it's here! Thanks to a lovely lady in Switzerland, the Soccer World Cup has reached Manzamnyama Village. We have been donated a projector to be able to show the games, and later to be used for educational movies. So we bent earth and heaven to get everything set up before the opening game! The deal with the village was that they will have to get tickets to watch the game. To earn a ticket, they must come work at the project site for 2 hours or donate something to the project in the worth of R15, like a bundle of thatching. It worked out quite well, even though mostly kids came to work, and then handed the tickets over to their elder siblings. :-) We got them to collect stones for foundations and to build stone walls, to dig the dam, to cut grass, to dig a pathway, to bring sticks for a kraal fence, to dig up the garden and so on and so on.
On the day of the opening game, about 80 came to watch soccer!
Thanks to another large donation, we were able to contract Tolikile to build the first rondavel for accommodation. So far the foundations have been laid and the bricks are ready, so next thing the walls will go up. Meanwhile we were working on the kitchen building, finally getting the roof up - tin though, not thatching, because it was quicker to do. Now we will also be building walls.
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