We Built the last part of the roof for the Community Center in Las Tumbas

Our vision is to turn the center of our village into a welcoming, fun and interactive Community Center.

We believe strongly that Community Centers have an important role for the future, and that is why we are on it, starting in our village : Las Tumbas de Baru, that is also the center of the "Diamante Valley".

To get into more details of the many positive reasons to build and improve a Community Center, read my previous impact reports related to this project : https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/community-center--roof-and-playground--0822f13ee720 and https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/service-to-improve-our-local-community-center--181961effa29

This project happened in phases :

Preparing :

1. 1- Advertising the project of finishing the roof : See the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qX3a5kYHQ
2. 2- Getting the necessary funds to pay for the rest of the materials and labor. (675$)
3. 3- Getting in touch and coordinate with the Build team (Pablo Zuniga and workers)
4. 4- Ordering, delivering and storing the building materials
5. 5 - Marking the foundation of the build

and Building :

1. 1- Digging the holes for the foundation
2. 2- Pouring cement, and placing the metal plates of the foundation
3. 3- Building the structure and Roof (3 days of work)

Pictures of the Action :

Marking :

Digging three 80 cm deep 40 cm wide holes

Pouring Cement and placing Metal Plates :

And Building the structure and roof :

Completed ! After 3 days of work:

Same angle on the first day :

This was a great experience for us to connect more with local workers and volunteers that came to help. I am very grateful for Pablo Zuniga to assist us in this project without charging for his time as the "build manager", the reason is that this project is for the benefit of his village and he likes to help making it a better place.

Spending 3 days there, we naturally got to interact with people and neighbors that pass by the road up and down the valley, and this partly why we chose this location for this coming Community Center.

Next Steps :

The roof is done, yet to fully complete the project we still need paint the metal to protect it and give it a nice look, we are planning to organize a volunteer day for that purpose.

Now that the roof is done entirely, we are finally able to design the space below it : The Playground, and the Chill and Gathering space.

This is very exiting for us, because it has been a lot of work to get to that point. It is like a house, there is the heavy hard work all the way up to the roof, and then there is the nice part : Furnishing, decorating...

Thank you for reading this report, more info soon !