Roma school workshop: 2009 and 2010
The headmaster of the
large Roma school in Garcin, near Sacele,
The school is surrounded by the poor
houses of the Roma village at Garcin.
Progress
December 2010
Various teams during 2010, including one from Methodist Central Hall,
Progress
April 2010
‘STEPS’ Chairman and a friend, spent a week working on the outside of the workshop
building. Last year the outside walls
were clad with OSD boards and the space between these boards and the internal
plasterboard walls were filled with fibreglass. However it gets very cold in
Garcin and extra insulation is required, so the two fitted polystyrene
insulation and timber.
Progress
November 2009
We received a generous
grant from a management trust and this enabled us to complete some of the
outstanding work and have central heating installed.
Progress
September 2009
There were five people in the September team: Sue Dean, Lesley &
Stephen Entwistle, Fiona Pearson and Meg Prowting. They were helped by Romanians George, Avram and Peter.
They concentrated on the difficult task of fixing the heavy plaster
board to the ceilings. They completed this, and finished around the windows
with plaster board and metal trim. They
applied mesh tape and a first layer of plaster over the seams and screw
heads.
Also in September, a team from
Two members of the team helped complete the electrics in the Garcin
school workshop.
Progress
June 2009
There were six people in the June team: Neil Gregory, Ted & Maureen
Hawksey, Colin Skelton, Chris Smart and Steve Walker; Romanians George and
Peter helped us all week. The team insulated the walls and clad them with
plaster-board. They connected the
electricity supply from the school and installed power and lighting in part of
the building.
Progress May 2009
A ‘STEPS Romania’ team
clad the outside walls with OSD boards, fitted windows and the external door
and made a start on the internal wall frames.
Progress April 2009
The local Romanian
company has completed the construction of the frame of the building, ready for
the first
Progress 13th April 2009
The Romanian company is making good progress constructing the timber
building.
Progress March 2009
Through the Romanian charity FAST, ‘STEPS’ paid for a local company to dig
the foundations, lay the concrete floor and construct the timber building.