This house for the Salvador Martine family was begun in Feb 2008 and was painted this year. With the exception of a little more touch up on new trim stucco, this house is complete.
These photos show Luis Escalante demonstrating Belizean pole climbing. Not shown were the extensive efforts of Luis to complete installation of ceiling fans in all classroom and rewiring of the pre-school in San Victor.
This year the team worked on finishing a house for Salvador Martin Martinez and his family in San Victor. The house had been partially built with concrete block walls at some time in the past and stood in this condition for many years. The goal of the team was to complete the house. Our team finished the stucco coating on the interior and exterior and the carpenters added a roof. Although it still needed windows, doors and a floor when we left, money was provided to complete the house by the Belizean construction crew.
After completing the stucco on the Martinez house, the stucco and paint team moved on to a project of painting one of the primary school buildings. Most of the painting was done on the interior of the school building.
The paint crew also painted the exterior of the Fernando Martinez house that had been built in San Narciso in 2007 with funds provided by our mission.
While the stucco and painting crew was painting the school building, Luis Escalante, a Belizean electrician, and a team helper rewired this school building that houses two classes and the teachers office. The rewiring corrected a major problem with lack of electrical grounding which is essential for protection of the office computers. Luis also installed three ceiling fans in another school building and installed a security light between the restrooms and the pre-school building.
