Building Project

We were very blessed with a donation from a church in America for our ministry and are using this donation to build 2 bathrooms outside the boy's room (where Nut, Base, Ice and Pedro stay) and to make some beds as well as get more fans for their room. This week, all the guys are busy building.

We thought it would be fun for those of you who have never been to Thailand to see how bathrooms and plumbing are done here!!.........

So...Here is a list of the things you would need to do in order to "build a bathroom" in Thailand.
1. Make a deep hole in the ground for the waste to be "flushed" into - if there is an existing hole, find it and open it up to check if it can be used (then close it again!).
2. Dig a tunnel in the dirt connecting your new bathroom to this larger hole.
3. Put a pipe in the tunnel and cover the top of it with dirt or cement, leaving a connecting pipe from the squatty potty to the main pipe.
4. Buy bamboo, or bricks and cement, and use them to build the walls.
5. Buy the squatty potty and place it on cement or bricks so it can be "stepped up onto" and place it down so the waste can flow into the pipe underneath.
6. Use sticks, bamboo, or wood for a door - and a nail and string to "lock" the door when the bathroom is in use.
7. Make a grass or tin roof, leaving a space between the roof and the walls for a light to be connected.
8. Make a hole in the back of the bathroom for water to escape when someone takes a shower.
9. Buy a bucket for showers, another bucket to "flush" the waste from the squatty potty into the pipe and the underground hole. 
10. Put a light globe in the bathroom and connect it to electricity with an extension cord running from the house (if it rains, be very careful when you turn on the light!)
11. Test the bathroom!

Here are some pictures of our building...(so far)

Laying the bricks and digging the tunnel connecting the bathroom to the sewage hole

 Taking turns digging the tunnel - was hard work to break the concrete that was already there and our dagger broke too!

Teamwork - digging the tunnel and building the walls

Two walls finished on the first day!












Placing cement over the pipes

The second day: Pipes in and covered with cement, more of the walls built

The third day: Placing the squatty potty's on the bricks, making it easy to "step up", and placing cement around the outside to make it look cleaner

Building the wall in between the two bathrooms and placing the other squatty potty down

The next two photos are the beds that the boys made for themselves on the second day...

More pictures coming soon!!!!