New Entrance for the Guest House

This reflection was written by Steve M last Friday after a day's work

"Today we had our first vehicles drive up our new road into the back of the Guest House compound. It is at about the stage that we would call a sub-grade if we were building a forest road at home. Not much gravel on it yet, it still is not smooth and there are still some cobbles and roots sticking up. However, after driving to the Children's Home today, we realized it is smoother and wider than many of the roads in this area. The staff here are happy to have the additional access and it will provide safer access in the event of future problems. The existing access would best be called an alley at home. It's just wide enough for a car to drive down. There are car bodies, rubble, scrap piles of steel, welding 'shops' and all kinds of things, not to mention its rough, bumpy and dead ends at the Guest House, with no other way out. The new access opens onto a main wide road. When Tom, the manager here told some of the team members we were going to turn the area into a road and they just couldn't see how. Now after less than one week, it looks more like a road than anything else. Well, OK, maybe it looks more like a really wide trail. Think of building a logging road at home through a grove of trees with no bull dozers, no excavators, not even horses, just 25 men and two women with 3 picks, 5 shovels, 6 machetes, one ax, one hundred feet cheap rope and one pulley."