Last summer was a big push to gets lots of building projects accomplished at Sahel. It has been awesome to have more staff dedicated and able to help with projects through this year. As the summer ended, the building projects didn’t. Lasso, Seikou, Lona, Joe, Craig, Paul, Brian, Dave, Tim, Rich, David and others have continued to chip away at repairs and new installations on the campus. The Admin Building (with four new classrooms) is now completed and in full use.
We were recently thrilled when a well-drilling organization was able to drill through the hard rock beneath the Sahel campus and successfully install a well (This was a huge victory because two previous well-drilling efforts had been unsuccessful.)! Thanks to much hard work by Brian, Joe and Craig, the campus is running entirely on well water now and is not dependent on city water at all. In addition, the guys were able to add irrigation lines and much of our watering can now happen straight from the Niger River (water that already has extra fertilizer in it!).
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We are also very, very thankful to have received the parts to our broken generator and Chad and Brian were able to successfully repair it. In addition, they installed an even bigger generator so we have a back-up when one needs to be serviced or repaired.
The work on the new shop area and new housing area continues. God provided a huge gift to the school in the form of hundreds of loads of great fill dirt. This was used to raise a low area of campus in preparation for future staff housing. We are so thankful for the construction staff that God has brought to Sahel this year and all that they have been able to accomplish.
