Haiti, May 30, 2012

Wednesday, May 30

Grout Day!

Another day of wheelbarrows and hoisting buckets, this time up to the wall that has been blocked in five more levels. Part of the team started off by cutting the sections of rebar that go into the grouted cells for strength, and the rest concentrated on supplying the grout to the pourers.

 Meanwhile, the block layers continued with another section of the wall.

And the water tower team began the reinforced block columns.

 And grouted them too.

All done up to 11 blocks high. Tomorrow we will wire up and form the bond beam, and hopefully get it poured as well.

 Grout day is tough.

But the Lord is sustaining us and continuing to bless us with health, safety and beautiful weather. Tomorrow is our last day, and we are looking forward to getting over to visit the children one more time before we leave. The ladies and Bill have been over there every day working with the children, and our EMS guy John has been treating them for various ailments. Wilson's leg is looking better every day, and John has trained several people how to treat and bandage it after we leave.