Things are moving fast!

For the past few days we have been splitting up and driving out to small villages along the edge of the mountains north-west of Chengdu. Yesterday, Luke and Sam visited two villages near Mianzhu and met with local officials to work out how the shelter project can help there. Caroline, and Stefanie and John from HODR have done the same further north in villages near Beichuan and have made arrangements with local government and police to return with the shelters. We now plan on returning to demonstrate the shelters and show locals how to put them up following Luke’s design plan before ordering in the first batch based on their response.

Materials were delayed due to a broken bridge and the truck having to wait for a ferry crossing for 2 days but it’s all here now and today we’re off to Bai Guo Cun - our first village to demonstrate the shelters. The nearby village of Xin Kai Cun is also involved and is sending some people over to see the shelters and place an order if they want them.

Tomorrow we’ll head further north and try and do the same near Beichuan.

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