by manoamano | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog
Staff from our counterpart organization Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo are hard at work on building Mano a Mano’s runway for our airport project in Laguna Sulti, Bolivia. This includes crushing larger river rock required for the base layer with our recently purchased...
by manoamano | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog
Clear skies and mild temperatures in Bolivia’s Cochabamba Valley brought good news this week to Nuevo Mundo’s engineers and machine operators. With good weather they could continue to work from dawn until dusk as they press forward to finish as much runway work as...
by manoamano | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog
The 1,100-meter-long Mano a Mano runway at Laguna Sulti is taking shape, with one layer compacted on top of another. The solid bottom layer, referred to as the foundation, could serve as a viable runway, but not one that would withstand the traffic volume that this...
by manoamano | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog
Mano a Mano is making progress on our airstrip improvement project in Toro Toro, Bolivia. The project is expected to be completed within a few months. Toro Toro Airstrip Construction Photos – March/April 2021 Loader loading material onto dump truck for Toro Toro...
by manoamano | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tony Schmitz (thanks Tony!) A plane swoops out of the sky, onto the runway on a plateau high above the village of Toro Toro. The pilot climbs out, followed maybe by a team of visiting doctors or dentists. Or perhaps it’s a...