By Jamie Collum | Project Leader
This January we teamed up with a television show production company from Los Angeles to complete a full rehabilitation of a local elementary school located in San Luis. For the production company, it was part of a reality TV series where a group travels the world helping non-profits achieve the impossible, which in this case was a full school rehabilitation in 7 days. For us, it was an opportunity to do something amazing for one of our local communities. When they pitched us on the idea we thought the scope would be impossible to complete in 7 weeks (it seemed more like a 4-5 week project) but amazingly the project was fully built out over 7 days with the help of two amazing construction crews and lots and lots of local volunteers.
This project included the following:
The total budget of this project was $30k USD. A huge and special thanks to the production company and our local community for making this project possible. And a big thanks to all of you who support our cause because without you none of this would be possible. We look forward to seeing the production once fully edited.
Next up we will be circling back to our high school to add in some walkways, make some improvements to the washrooms and patch some roofing issues we are experiencing.
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