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A lot has happened in recent months as we planned this year's activities. We've met many new faces, traveled with our exhibition, and formed partnerships that have the potential to last for years.

Over the weekend of April 26–27, we gathered for a teambuilding workshop in the pleasant surroundings of Villa Vallila. Many of our Kashitu volunteers joined us – mostly university students from Brno, Prague, and Ústí nad Labem – who are involved in preparing the project in Zambia, whether they are joining the trip this year or contributing from...

We kicked off spring with our Kashitu School project – the construction of a secondary school in Zambia – by organizing a workshop on producing unburned bricks using a manual press. New volunteers who will be traveling to Zambia this year took part, giving them the chance to get familiar with the technology ahead of their departure and...

On Monday, April 7th, we had the opportunity to present our school construction project in Kashitu on Czech Television's morning show Dobré ráno.

We are back with construction updates! We are back in the Czech Republic from Kashitu, but we are still finalizing the presentation of the progress of the works that took place on the construction site.

Time is running out and we all have to work hard until the last days. We still have finishing touches to do and our hands are working on all fronts. And where exactly are we pressed for time? The installations in the family house need to be finished, the water involves erecting and connecting the water tower, the sewer involves...

After concreting the reinforced concrete wreath, we moved on to the truss construction. We had to figure out how to get them to the planned location in the first place. The building is single storey, so the trusses had to be placed on the reinforced concrete wreath at X height. Unfortunately, we don't have a crane available, but we managed....

We have finished the foundations, it has been tough days and weeks, but the construction is going on schedule, plus or minus a day! Before laying the first shard of bricks we placed waterproofing under the bricks and here again we are encountering the problem of construction taking place where it is taking place. That is to say, in an...

We have team members from different disciplines and each of us has some hobbies and since we are entrepreneurial people, we will make it all work on the project! My colleague Štěpánka is very skilled in sewing and that's why she has planned a sewing workshop and a workshop for this year.

With the completion of the foundation passes, we had to work on the reinforced concrete foundation slab. The slab structure was designed to a thickness of 100 mm with the concreting of bonded reinforcement made of 6 mm diameter bars.

The construction process is in full swing and the outlines of the multifunctional house are slowly but surely taking shape. The team has started by laying out the foundations and is gradually working on the base structure.