electric upgrade!

tim berger enjoying playing!

most of our post are centered around the work we do with the children in our unit or with those we work with in the local community, however today's news is a little more mundane but none the less important as we plan for the future of the village of hope.

men who know what they are doing with
high voltage electrics

i'm no electrician so you will have to bear with the limited amount of detail in this post but basically yesterday we had the completion of the first phase of our electrical upgrade, which included the whole of the supply from ESKOM (our electricity supplier) who increased our current 80amps up to 150amps, we also had to install a new thicker cable for the new power to come through, as well as a large distribution box with new fuse board.....

...most of that will have passed you by, as it did me, but what this means is that firstly tim berger got chance to play with some slightly heavier plant which included a trencher and overall it means that we are now able to connect up the ukuqala II building and plan for the next phase of building work and internal changes to increase the amount of children we can take into our unit.

all in all it meant that we were inundated with men in high vis jackets (well maybe not this is africa after all!), with some very heavy duty footwear to protect them from any danger, plus a large number of vehicles including a crane to install the new equipment.

sorry for that boring post, but news is news!