This year marked the completion of a major project at the Orphanage and school campus of International children’s Care in Poptun, Guatemala. This was made possible through the generous donation of a set of steel forms by Mt Baker Silo Company of Bellingham Washington. The kind folks at Mt Baker gave us the forms and just as important, allowed our volunteers to watch and learn as they used the techniques on construction projects here in Washington. This gave our crew first-hand experience with the planning and construction of these water storage reservoirs.

These are not simple structures. They are twenty feet in diameter and twenty feet high. Each contains 10,000 lbs of (more…)