The first of four children’s home planned inside the Casa Esperanza of Angels’ orphan care facility is designed to house 12 – 16 orphaned or abandoned children and their house parents. This is the project tracking page for the ongoing construction work of our first children’s home.
This page will be updated regularly to keep our donors and supporters informed on the progress of this construction project. To donate for the completion of our other projects, please visit: Fencing Project, Family Cottage Project
Project Status: COMPLETED
Project Start Date: February 24, 2017
City Building Permit Number: 1702163087
Ron Brown, the Managing Director of Casa Esperanza of Angels, shared that the CEA team had been planning and working for this project these past three years. Estimated completion time is 2 – 3 months. Here’s Ron discussing the significance of this milestone for the CEA mission, interviewed during the formal groundbreaking ceremony .
UPDATES
September 16, 2017 : We have completed the roof of the first children’s home!
We have also completed the steps / landings / PWD ramp.
August 20, 2017: Roofing of the first children’s home has started! More updates to follow!
August 5, 2017: Roofing materials for the first children’s home at the CEA orphanage finally being delivered.
July 27, 2017: Roofing material has been ordered and hopefully delivered next week for the first children’s home.
July 14, 2017: Ongoing roof construction at first children’s home inside the Casa Esperanza of Angels orphanage.
May 5, 2017: The workers have started work on the building walls, we hope to get this structure completed as soon as possible so we could move to the next building and get the facility opened this year.
April 25, 2017: We finally got the slab poured for the first children’s home! We are hoping the construction progress will move more quickly now.
April 22, 2017: Sunrise this morning at the Casa Esperanza of Angels property and our first of 4 proposed children’s homes. We will be pouring the concrete slab on Monday!
April 12, 2017: We continue to make progress but it has been a little slow. To guard against flooding (this area was flooded a few years ago, according to locals, during a particularly brutal tropical storm) we are elevating the first children’s home and as a result the backfilling and compaction of the backfill material has taken a good deal of time. We are near completion of that process and have rough plumbing now installed. We will treat for pest control, install a vapor barrier, electrical conduit, and reinforcement steel next. We plan to pour the slab sometime next week.
March 29, 2017: Photos from the first children’s home construction site today showing progress of backfilling and compaction work before plumbing/electrical rough in and steel grid.
March 23, 2017: The first children’s house is definitely rising at the Casa Esperanza of Angels orphanage site. Photo taken at the site today, showing construction work progress.
March 19, 2017: Video of the initial excavations and column constructions taken on March 19, 2017.
GROUNDBREAKING
The formal groundbreaking ceremony to mark start of construction work for the first children’s home was held last February 24, 2017. Local government executives from Tanjay City and the Province of Negros Oriental, as well as neighbors and friends, joined us during this occasion. Gigi’s family (Gigi Olis-Brown, our co-founder and Activities Director is a native of Tanjay City) was also in full attendance to help facilitate the event. We were also assisted by our very helpful volunteers Arjie Sedillo, Lulu Fabe, Vergielyn Cubol, and Eda Saycon.
Here’s Architect Rainier Garcia describing the work to be done on this structure in an interview, during the groundbreaking ceremony .