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We Have Construction!!

Dear Reader:

My apologies for ranting on and on regarding the slow progress on the school building. Two years, sixty-four meetings with government officials, three full stacks of paperwork, and $50,000 dollars later: we have final lift-off.

Here are pictures of the foundation of the building going into the ground.

Thank you for your patience. And I am proud to say the Naandi contruction team is doing a superb job. (www.naandi.org/UpdateArchive/strongFoundation.asp)

Leigh Anne

PS: Its raining right now, just in time to cure the cement laid down today.
PPS: I will thank the funders of this building when they let me or when the building is completed. Whichever comes first.Link
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