By Dennis Gaboury | Founder, Chair, Board of Trustees
Our older boys have done it again! Another building – our FINAL building – has risen and is open thanks to their efforts digging a foundation on a rocky plot, carting tons of rocks to the site to fill the foundation to floor level, laying the block for the walls, raising a 30-foot log to hold up the roof, applying plaster and paint, tiling, installing the plumbing, welding the burglar bars an security gate, building the furniture, laying a path into the new structure and installing the playground equipment.
And aside from one electric saw, one drill and a single welding machine, they accomplished all of this with shovels and picks, hammers, trowels, brushes, strong backs and a lot of will! And they did it even while helping the younger children to take their first steps with paint brushes, wheelbarrows, trowels and bricks.
In the process, they not only acquired all of those building skills, but they also learned how to plan, how to anticipate the need for more materials, how to make decisions as a group, and perhaps as importantly, how to persevere despite the heat and a lot of aching muscles.
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