Ongoing Construction of The Margie Smith House, part two

My earlier report on the construction of our family house,  which we have named "The Margie Smith House" in honor of the beloved friend and praying Daylight partner and supporter who put up the initial seed funds, did cover on the construction work up to the slab level of the foundation. We have since made significant progress as the following pictorial sequence show. Check it out: 

......with the foundation slab firmly in place, everything is ready for the next stage - that is walling going up 

it all starts with the setting of the corners by way of measuring the angles, and Giddy, our lead mason was in control

with the right angles corners determined, the critical bricks are squarely put in place by the mason himself.....everyone in the crew will have to take cue from that....

onto the next corner, all corners of the house have to be in perfect measurement, right angles...

laying down the bricks is in top gear, and as you can see it is  beginning to look like it....as it were

   day in, day out and  brick by brick work has gone this far.....

in some days, we  had to work overtime, late into the evening.....we just couldn't help it

....this young man was part of the crew for a moment....and apparently he made it obvious what team he supported....hmmm, when is their next big game?

Construction crew member Megan at it 

Kasule, one of the most funny guy on the site who is able to crack a joke while working all at the same time...

filling it up....all the way up

Little Chesang holding the line with a smile as crew members set the bricks in place...this was after all fun...

Ben cutting timber to set up the wall-plate mold to hold the concrete

Kibet making the wall-plate mold ready for concrete....

getting the concrete ready to fill up the wall-plate mold to create the rim beam

filling that mold with concrete all the way round the perimeter wall.....it will take lots of concrete, nerve and  muscle

Drogba in action....he was very particular on the consistency of the concrete...

....so much ground covere

                ....here we are....and the walling activity got over with the completion of the rim beam...

At this rate, we could get this work through and the house ready by October. However, we have ran into some tricky challenge, the materials have ran out, as it were,  and the funds we got from Margie Smith together with tremendous local support we received has got us this far - to the wall-plate. Yes, local villagers came in handy, and they helped us a lot. We did receive significant help and support in kind from the locals, and it is what gave this construction work a huge boost and momentum. The value of the work that has been done is way more than $5000. All things considered, may be two-fold in value already and counting... 

The next stage is roofing. And to do that we need several running feet of timber of different sizes, nails, roofing iron sheets, and the like. We do not have those materials in sight yet but we are trusting Him. However, in the meantime,  we might have to fold up for a while until there is a change of the status quo. Pray with us that this work continue like it has been, and that my family can move in by October or December this year. We can't stop imagining celebrating this coming Christmas in this new found home taking shaping....

Again, let your prayers ring.....amen!