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Pro bono architect team designs off-grid children’s village in Tanzania
Working with London-based charity Article 25, a team of architects working pro bono have designed an “ultra-sustainable” off- grid children’s village to replace the derelict orphanage that children were living in. In Tanzania, roughly 8% of children under the age of 18 are orphaned, with an estimated 90,000 orphans in the northern region of Kilimanjaro alone. Ranked 154th out of 187 countries in the UN Human Development Index, Tanzania remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.
The new Kao La Amani Children’s
Village (meaning ‘peaceful settlement’ in Swahili) is in Boma Ng’ombe in the Kilimanjaro region of northern Tanzania and is home for 60 children with cottages each with its own live-in ‘Mama,’ along
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with a large social block with a dining terrace, kitchen, games room, library, and laundry facilities.
The village is designed to be able to operate entirely ‘off-grid’. All power is generated using solar PV panels, and all water is provided by a borehole on site and then heated using solar hot water heaters. The waste from the site is fi ltered via septic tanks and a constructed wetland, meaning that it isn’t dependent on municipal sewage systems. Not only do these measures safeguard against Tanzania’s extreme weather conditions (where drought and fl ooding are both possible during the year), but they make the estate much cheaper to run: an essential in a country where 70% of the population live on less than $2 a day. These sustainability features
allow the village to run at minimal costs while protecting its natural resources and ensuring the children’s village will continue to provide to children in this area for decades to come. As a non-profi t charity based in the
UK, Article 25 provides low cost and ultra sustainable properties to NGOs by using pro-bono and ‘low-bono’ expertise, allowing them to keep design and management costs signifi cantly lower than commercial rates so that NGOs can afford to build transformative hospitals and schools. They have completed over 100 building projects in 35 countries around the world, tackling challenges like earthquake risks, remote locations, extreme weather, and unreliable power supplies.
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