Many thanks to the Waldorf worldwide outreach organization Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners (Friends of the art of Rudolf Steiner education) out of Berlin and Karlsruhe in Germany who have underwritten needed repairs on our Waldorf after school enrichment program called Estrella de Sauce based here in the small lakeside jungle community of Sauce near the city of Tarapoto in northern Peru. Some of the repairs were necessitated by the 8.0 earthquake that hit us last May and others just from wear and tear. We have a football court right behind the facility and over time the roof back there had become quite damaged and leaky from all the footballs landing on it.
Walls were cracked in various places but we were quite lucky as other older structures made of earth collapsed completely during the earthquake.
In front we had to put on a new palm-frond ridge cap as the old one had disintegrated due to sun and rain. The white plastic skylight had sustained a 2 inch (5cm) hole. What made that I wonder, could it have been a falling meteorite? Perhaps more likely a kid with a slingshot. The photo above shows me fixing it with our volunteer Johanna holding the ladder.
The white notice-board on the wall was infested with termites so we have put up a new one that is quite nicely color coordinated with the flowers and plants. It is made of metal this time so should be termite-proof.
Football-damaged roof repaired, new palm-frond roof cap can be seen behind
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