When you do lots of preparation for any project, you always look forward to the day you see the 'real' work starts. Today we were up at 7am for breakfast, and had a half hour meeting with Callum, the director of Comfort Rwanda. Callum arrived with a party of 18 people from Edinburgh at 2am this morning.
Then we met the District surveyor on site at 9am, and agreed the final position of our ownership. Hopefully tomorrow we get the correct deed plan, and put it straight for registration. That means that in 4 - 6 weeks the actual build can start, assuming the planning application goes through ok. (actually it arrived at 8pm tonight and looks correct - at last!)
At 9.30am we met Kayitare and his son Jeff, and their squad of 12 who immediately descended on the site where the College is to go, and with an hour and a half they had really swept aside the long grass allowing us to see what the area really looks like.
Then at 11am, Callum arrived with Mark and Emma Galloway who are part of our fundraising team - we are still looking for another £30,000 - so it was really important that they were able to get photos of the site and us laying out the position of the building on the plot, so that everyone can see that we are serious about this College starting construction soon. If you want to support the College Build and its work then there is a giving page. Thanks for considering this.
At 2pm we met Norbert and Robert who we are thinking will check the costs and the building stages for us, and tonight we have a meeting again with the Vice Mayor - so still very busy right up to the end - but we are getting there!
2 days to go and we are on our way home - so much to do before we leave!
Exciting to see things happening, Gary. Perhaps you should revisit that unfinished sentence. It looks important...
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