PROJECTS
Ongoing
Toilet Blocks for Primary Themi SchoolÂ
Year: 2022 - On going | Budget: 28.000,00 €  | Award: Premio Alumni UIC Barcelona 2023 - Best Transformative ProjectÂ
Themi is a primary school in Arusha, with a total of 1.372 students with an urgent need of new and functional toilets. The new block is a linear building recalling the shape of the existing toilet block. The new toilet block will have two wings with a total of 5 cubicles for girls, and 3 cubicles and 6 urinals for boys. The design devotes particular care to the privacy issue, and specifically extra care is given to the girls’ wing to address the topic of menstrual health and hygiene (MHH). The school is equipped with plumbing/sewer infrastructure, for this reason the toilets are designed as flushing toilets; efforts will be made to reuse rainwater. The plan has been designed to ensure girls' and boys' privacy, with indipendent separate entrances. Several hand-washing points have also been designed to encourage hygiene among children. There are also two tanks to allow water collection.Â
The WASH Goose GameÂ
Year: 2020 - Ongoing
Our work is also oriented to hygiene education, this is why we developed this goose game. Playing can foster learning and developing skills that are indispensable for everyday life. Its importance is such that even the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recognises, in Article 31, the child's right not only to rest and leisure, but also to play and recreation.Â
Our game aims to teach children between the ages of five and twelve the links between personal hygiene and health, based on the premise that hygiene practices are largely acquired during childhood. Play can be said to have two fundamental roles: promotional and educational. Hygiene promotion involves simple, positive and interesting messages. Hygiene education helps people to learn about water and sanitation behaviours, and especially the reasons why they lead to good or bad health. We are developing this project, hoping to implement it as soon as possible with the actual protagonists, the children!Â
Completed
Classroom for Maji Moto Primary School
Year: 2019 - Completed | Budget: 16.000,00 €  | Volunteers: 20  | Local workers: 9
The project aims to renovate and expand the primary school of Maji Moto, considering that now there are 500 children and 6 classrooms. The classroom has been designed as a single architectural element, without forgetting that it will be part of a system. For this reason, it has been designed allowing potential further development consisting in an adjacent classroom with a wall in common to reduce costs and materials. To ensure ventilation and an adequate temperature in the classroom at all times, a false ceiling has been designed, in order not to have direct solar radiation, but also creating sound insulation. When it rains, the violent sound of water on the metal sheet is attenuated by the bamboo ceiling. The inclination of the roof has been studied according to the prevailing winds.
