10 members from the Prince Albert Roman Catholic Diocese are taking part in a 6 1/2 week mission trip to Tanzania, Africa with the collaboration and partnership with the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. The Prince Albert Diocese Missionaries will help bring clean drinking water to a community in need in Tanzania by building a windmill-well. As we take part in this mission we ask that you pray for us and follow our journey.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Building the tower
The foundations have been set and we have just finished the tower. It's at least three stories tall. We placed the steel beams in the concrete foundations and then built layer upon layer. It is easily the tallest structure in the village. We used a winch to haul up the motor and some of the heavier pieces yesterday. And today we used a pulley and brought up the blades one by one. I'll have pictures tomorrow. We have also built one of two water tanks. We began by covering a mould made of burlap sacks with a clay made of... Then once the clay dried we covered it with two layers of refined concrete. We will build the second tank tomorrow. We brought some of Deanna's One World Futbols to the village today and played a friendly game of football (soccer). I made a dive for the ball and came up in a bramble of the worst burrs ever. I have a really bad farmers tan.
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