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Its been a while since the last update, many important things have happened in that time.

For one the project team has grown with the inclusion of myself and we have had some help from another local built environment professional, Diina Shitula, who is a Quantity Surveyor from Namibia working here in Cape Town.

On my side I have been going through the motions of getting to know the project and understand the situation and the nature of the various difficulties of this specific design.

We have been in correspondence with with Nina Maritz and Paul Munting, the Architects of Record in Namibia and we have set up a dialogue which will sustain the development of this project between Architecture for Humanity, the Client and the Architects involved.

In terms of the project deadlines we have submitted a package to the clients and are in the process of working with Nina, Paul and the Client to refine the design in order to achieve a feesible and practical solution. This is due to the location of the site, which has has proven to be quite isolated and troublesome in general.

Some issues which we have been working through are the escalated costs due to site location, the security of the grounds has brought some concerns and general project management is being dealt with.

Otherwise the project is moving ahead regardless of some minor bumps in the road, hopefully we'll have things flying ahead to give Namibia an awesome Centre that the local community will be proud to have and use.

Jhono out...