MIssions Task Force

The team that was just here from SC came specifically to work on electrical and such high skill tasks. The group consisted of people from Cornerstone Church in Greenville and Restoration Church in Spartanburg. In the group were three electricians, and I was so excited that the work to be done would be done to our standards. Sadly enough, the project was slightly behind and they could not start their electrical work until the next to last day of their trip. The first few days the entire team spent building rebar cases or boxes, whatever they are called. They then had to build the rebar mat on top of the first floor. Finally the electricians got to work on electrical things. The funny thing is that every time I went by to take a picture of them working, they were standing scrutinizing a spot and trying to figure out just what the best plan of action would be! Must I say here that Dominican ideas of how to wire things and U.S. ways are not the same? For example: most wiring here doesn't have a ground wire. NOT GROUNDED? Nope, not grounded. Usually the use 14 guage wire instead of 12, and that can cause overheating. The other thing that we have noticed is that the color of the wire doesn't usually mean anything. In fact, if there was a good buy on one color, it may all be in that color! This works fine here in the Dominican Republic because they all know that is how it is done. It confounds Americans! And while we want to maintain the dominican culture for the children, we would like to do electricity to US standars as much as possible.