The most important milestone is that we manage to get a hold of a former public preschool building, owned by the city of Martin, into a 50-year lease. The school is right across the fence from our property; we take down the fence! During the summer we renovate the building, creating a space for 3 new classrooms, 3 offices, storage room and bathrooms. We can also use the second half of the building, still operated by a private school, to feed lunches to our students.
Just to illustrate: More than 160 volunteers from among our parents, church members and American partners volunteered in the summer construction work. We use this tradition of volunteering continuously, as the school keeps on growing.
We purchase the equipment for physics, chemistry and biology lab; in the summer a new lab in “the Pink building” is put into use.