捐建四川山区村小项目进展5/12/2010 Sichuan village school building project status update 5/12/2010

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各位热心的同事和朋友：

我在4月30日探访了我们捐建村小的在建工地和在租用民房里学习的孩子们，具体情况和照片如下:

在建工地
- 村委会和工程队于四月份签订工程合同，约定工程完成时间为七月底，对材料规格等进行了细化设计和规定，并将教室宽度由原计划的6.5米改为国家教室标准的6米，符合实际需要。
- 准备工作和辅助事宜
  - 征地完成，村小新校址就在现租用民房旁。
  - 简单修缮了连接公路和村小校址的乡村公路，以便从公路运送来的建筑材料能够经过小货车的二次搬运运到工地。
  - 工地用水准备就绪。
- 工地：地基挖坑完成，地基石料运送在此后一天内完成。工地进度比预想的略慢，主要原因是四月中下旬当地下雨较多，简陋的乡村公路雨天泥泞，无法通车。
村小现状：
- 村小现租用一楼一底两间民房作为教室，由照片可见比我们第一次去考察时教室条件稍有改善，因为房东去年在听说我们有意捐助村小后，改造原房屋以期夫妻教师用我们的捐款买或租做教室。考虑到改造后的房屋在通风采光和安全等方面不能达到正规教室的标准，而且如此办学对房东的依赖性太大，去年我和县教育局和乡中心小学老师去访问时拒绝了房东的提议。
- 4月30日我达到时，村小刚好准备要放五一和农忙假，所以我只简单在二三年级合用的教室里拍了两张照片和一段视频。
捐款情况:
- 我们项目在当地的监管代理方--乡完小王副校长出具10万元人民币首批工程款的收据，我已由挂号信寄给CTEF在杭州的副主席罗绍伟。
- 我们在第一阶段捐款募集了约合10万人民币，加上公司的等额匹配刚好达到20万的村小建设预算。我准备在七月份村小接近竣工时，再发起一次较大规模的捐款倡议，以解决村小的桌椅和运动器材等。
- 捐款情况，和以前的项目进展报告，请访问项目网站：http://sharepointasia/sites/SichuanSchool（公司内网）或http://blogs.technet.com/chinahpc/（外部网站）。
后续计划
- 我会每两至三周发一次在建工地照片。
- 七月组织一次项目讨论会，讨论大家关心的话题，包括募捐、捐款使用、实地考察和支教安排。

如果您有任何建议和意见，请联系我。

谢谢!

魏臻四川山区村小项目经理

Hi, dear warmhearted colleagues and friends:

On 30th, April, I went to visit our village school in construction and lovely students studying in rented houses. Here comes the details and photos:

Construction
- The village committee has signed contract with a local construction team. The construction will be completed by the end of July; Some construction details such as material specification are designed and written down; The classroom width is changed from 6.5 meters of original plan to 6 meters, which is the national classroom standard and meets real requirement.
- Preparation work
  - The land for new village school has been requisitioned for free. The new location is besides the current rented classrooms.
  - The country road, connecting road and the school, has been roughly fixed so that construction materials can be carried from road to school by small truck.
  - Water supply has been completed.
- Main construction work: the ground foundation is almost done. The progress is a little bit slower than expected because there were many rainy days in April there, so that the country road is too bad for truck to get through.
The current situation of the village school
- The school is renting 2 classrooms from a peasant. If you look at the photo, the classrooms look a little bit better than the first time we saw them. This is because the landlord knew that we want to support the school, and then improved the houses, in order to sell or rent his houses to the couple teachers. However, the houses are still not qualified for standard classrooms even after improvement, and it will make the school take a hard dependency on landlord if the couple teachers accept his offer. As a result, we rejected this offer when county education bureau officer, village central teachers and I went to investigate the village school last year.
- At my arrival time, the school is about to start the May Day holiday and busy farming vacation. So I just took 2 photos and one short video in one of the 2 classrooms.
Donation:
- Our local coordinator has written a receipt for the first project expense 100k RMB. And I have mailed it to vice president of CTEF Waisiu in Hangzhou.
- We have raised about 100k RMB in the first fund raising milestone. Counting in company’s match, it’s about what we need for construction – 200k RMB. I plan to initial another wave of fund raising in July, in order to buy desks, chairs, sports apparatus, etc.
- Please find the donation progress and previous status reports at the project website: http://sharepointasia/sites/SichuanSchool (Intranet) or http://blogs.technet.com/chinahpc/ (Extranet).
Next Step
- I will send construction photos every 2 to 3 weeks.
- Have a project meeting in July, discussing all topics interesting to you, such as fund raising, donation usage, school visit and volunteering teaching arrangement.