Diary : Season Of Rebuilding

For those who are familiar with RADION operations, do bear with us. Allow me to give some background to our newer readers.

For more than 6 months, we have been working with Huay Nam Khao church to help them with fundraising, services and simple management. The church was about to fall apart with termite infested pillars, the only good part left, was the roof ! We did what we could and the church rallied alongside our call to rebuild the church.

 Termite infested columns and pillars

Initially we expected the rebuilding to take at least 2-3 weeks. But in a turn of events, heavy rains came and construction workers could not work on other open air building projects and thus they all came to work on the only project that had a roof- the church !

The whole church was rebuilt in 3 days and this is how it looks like.

An old church given a new lease of life

While the church was being rebuilt, RADION was not so fortunate. The heavy rains brought along with it strong winds that left dining area in the STREETKIDS! shelter  badly damaged and the whole structure was left in an incline. Pillars were cracking and it could give way anytime.

All we could do was to tie the structure to a tree, hoping to keep it from falling.

After service last sunday, we told Huay Nam Khao church of our needs and they volunteered to come help us rebuild. We initially thought that the church would send 5-6 people, instead almost the ENTIRE church turned up, bringing their wives and children to help out.

It was like a community event. Within less then a day the old structure was torn down, a new structure was put up. Here are some pictures.

 Manual piling.

 Getting the structure up.

 The beams & men working on the project

The completed work.

What a day !