London

Architecture for Humanity London is working with Learing Planet to design a small lower primary school for fifty 4-7 yr olds, in the remote village of Dhawa, Gorkha District, Nepal. The children here are too small to walk up to 2 hours each way to the main Primary and Secondary School (500+ children) in the centre of Dhawa (population c 4000). The school will be a versatile, communal, self-sufficient, building comprising of two classrooms and a small staffroom in a self contained new building on an existing site. Dhawa has no existing utilities, so hygienic, self contained sanitation will be needed and, ideally, the building will collect and store it’s own rain water. A small solar installation is planned, to light the building for use in the evenings (LED), for teachers to charge a laptop in future, and for local villagers to charge their mobiles (for which they will pay a very small fee). As the only communal, powered structure in the surrounding area, the building will also be able to act as a local civic centre for village meetings, and for social and commercial events which will bring the building a small, much needed, income.