Project Limpopo
A team of first year architecture students need your help to raise £100,000 to enable them to design and construct a new nursery school for 80 young children in a rural African village.
The school will help transform the education of 80 four to seven year olds living in Calais – an area of high unemployment in the province of Limpopo and a four to five hour drive from Johannesburg.
Working with Education Africa, a charity improving access to education in South Africa, fifty students are aiming to become the second team of Nottingham students to build a new school in the country.
Last year students built a pre-school for 150 two to six year olds in the township of Jouberton on the outskirts of Johannesburg and recently they have been back to see how the children have settled in. The project has had a remarkable impact on the students and has inspired many others to apply for places on this year’s project.
The University of Nottingham is the only university in the UK currently working alongside Education Africa and it is hoped this partnership will become a long term feature in the department’s degree curriculum.
Please see the letters from Limpopo in the "News from the site" section for weekly updates of the work currently taking place.
For more information, please see the Project Limpopo website.
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