HOUSE FOR    ORPHANS OF RURAL AREA IN TANZANIA

TANZANIA ORPHANS UPENDO COMMUNITY

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BILL OF QUANTITIES AND COST ESTIMATE

Prepared by:	Fr. LIKILIWIKE, A. and Fr. RWEBANGIRA, A.
Prepared at:	Architectural and Construction Department Diocese of Njombe P. O. Box 54 NJOMBE, TANZANIA
Date	February, 2013

GENERAL SUMMARY

BILL No.	SUMMARY	AMOUNT (TSHS)
1.0	PRELIMINARIES AND EARTH WORK	2,026,500
2.0	SUBSTRUCTURE	12,150,100
3.0	WALLING	21,045,000
4.0	DOORS	3,330,000
5.0	WINDOWS	2,095,000
6.0	ROOFING AND CEILING STRUCTURE	5,313,000
7.0	ROOF SHEET	2,836,000
8.0	ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION	1,363,600
9.0	PLUMBING – SANITARY INSTALLATION	6,695,000
10.0	FINISHES	10,114,500
GRAND TOTAL                                             ( Approx. $ 43,000)		66,968,700

                                                                                                                                                                                
I have been looking for a model house for one Upendo Family. The unit houses minimum 12 children but maximum 16 children. This is an ideal unit for one volunteer woman to use in the care of the orphans we are helping. Care has been take to secure the building for both wild animals and burglary. This compact and yet spacious unit will be very safe and comfortable for all the children.
  I originally did not envisage that such a unit could be so expensive ( $ 43, 000!). The Diocesan professional assessors in Njombe have given the number and I guess I have to wake up and face reality. May the heavens help us as we help ourselves.                 

Travelling in Tanzania can be a big problem during the rainy season. This Landcruizer much as it is four wheel drive is stuck. Until the weather becomes dry there is nothing one can do.

These bunk beds were made from the donations given by the Boy Scouts from St Mark's Catholic School. The Scouts will probably never know the difference they made to their fellow orphan children in Tanzania until they come to heaven. Many thanks must go to their teacher Ina Jaskoviak who did all the guidance. Thanks indeed!

As I continue to think about the children in Tanzania and in my own diocese in particular I dream of a Village of orphans. So far I have secured 424 acres of land on which to build that village. The challenge is where on earth will I get all the money to do that?  The answer is very simple "IN GOD I TRUST'

On Monday I explained on how corporates do destroy the planet and its peoples for the sake of money. In Tanzania the pictures that you see here show just a few of the negative effects of gold mining where corporations search for more money in Third World countries at the expense of people and the environment.
 Tanzania is now the third gold mining country in Africa and all that the people get is at most more deaths. It is always acclaimed that if corporations invest in poor countries the people benefit by the trickle-down effect, only death trickles; no school, no hospital no road! That illusion must be shuttered by these horrific images of mercury spill in rivers in the second biggest lake in the world with a gigantic stocks of fish which will have to vanish in the near future accompanied by the slow death of more then 15 million people who are dependent on the lake not to count people in the Southern Sudan Republic, Northern Sudan and Egypt for as well said Egypt is the Nile!

People affected by the mercury directed in Rivers and Lake Victoria from the Ulyankhulu Gold Mine

The Wedding at Utalingoro Parish

I hope I shared with you about the Upendo Family in Mafinga. It had been invaded by some lazy people who want to enjoy without work. I went and expelled all of them from the Family and now the children enjoy their peace. I took a joint picture for all of them as they came from school. Only seven of them remain as the others have graduated from the Elementary School and have joined their families while Gift has joined the Madeke Orphans Upendo Farm as you saw him in the first post.

It is not always about the orphans. I had to bless a marriage at Utalingoro Parish and that was a funny moment too! There was a traditional dance and I couldn't have missed it. So I joined and danced forgetting I still had the catholic vestments with me. That is East African Catholicism, simplified series!

Children around here have to make sure that as they come from school they collect firewood for cooking the evening meal. So from school they must come back with a bunch of dry wood.

Dear friends this should be enough to give you of the little things that happen to me as days run so fast to Christmas. I wish all of you the best of luck and let us pray for one another. Hope to see you soon.
May the Lord bless you all.