A bit of a looksy at Huey Sai.......

So finally you get to have a bit of a looksy at Huey Sai and what us crazy kiwis are up to.  

So far the pipe work from the source to the water filter tank is competed.  The pipe back to the main tank and part way into the village has been laid.  The water tank has only one more layer of concrete to pour and the filter tank is poured.  Two ablution blocks have been built - they include a 2.5m soak tank and a small concrete floored, bamboo walled shed with a squat toilet.

We have also run 3 kids club sessions that they call Vacation Bible School ... with way more laughing and fun than school!  About 30 kids each day are discovering that they a great loved by God and also precious to us.

Tomorrow is Sunday and our first rest day.  We are going to the little local church than laxing out with a chance to hang with the locals.  We plan to intro them to cricket and also will be meeting the local Shaman.
Then Monday to Wednesday is hard out finishing the tanks ... 3 more ablution blocks and the final pipe and tap work through the village.

Today it felt as though we were all of a sudden accepted as being more than just very strange looking visitors.  More and more contact with the villages each day and many more smiles and even laughs coming our way.

This place is so poor and yet there is a richness here in each of these beautiful people.  It's so amazing for us all to be a small part of bringing hope, health and friendship to these humble, shy, quiet, needy people.  Hope you enjoy the pics!

Even in Thailand the blokes can be blokes ... and the Thai blokes have been teaching us a thing or two ... too.



Geoff's in project prep mode at a daily monitoring meeting



Mike Mann is the man.  Before we came he was the only European person many of these villages had meet. He leads ITDP and this is the 226 water project over the last 20 years

Layer  3 of 5 concrete pours on the main storage tank

More bucket passing than you can poke a stick at.

Kiwi's, the ITDP team and our local host VooLee enjoy a kiwi version of
pig on a spit and baked potatoes

Julz hacking out a trench for water pipe while Chris supervises

Robert foccused on re-barring the main storage tank.

Thousands of metres of blue pipe are a sign that clean water is on it's
way.

The boys are back in town ... kid magnets!

The first of many ablution blocks to be constructed over the next month

...thats all folks - only a week to go!!!!