After months of waiting and a number of 'false alarms' the container, sent out from Westhill, Aberdeenshire, has now arrived on site in Gatumba. It was a nervous time for everyone with all sorts of unanswered questions remaining. Would the container be held in Burundi's port for inspection and clearing? Would the customs officers require bribes to let the container through? Would the seals have been tampered with and would there be anything missing from inside.
In the end the container was allowed on site to be processed and it was found to have the seal intact and the contents untouched.
Below the truck carrying the container arrives on site only to get stuck in the soft ground overnight where it had to be emptied by hand and the contents carried into storage the following morning.
Piece by piece the items are removed and taken to the on-site storage facility.
Bags of cement weighing 50kg are carried to the store.
At last everything is on site, and even the new cement mixer is in situ ready to start work. Even the battery which sat idle for a number of months in transit started the mixer first time.
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Bags of cement weighing 50kg are carried to the store.
At last everything is on site, and even the new cement mixer is in situ ready to start work. Even the battery which sat idle for a number of months in transit started the mixer first time.to see the whole story visit the http://www.hopecentreburundi.com/ 
