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The school as it was before |
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The school as it was before | The school as it is now |
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The toilets as they were before | The toilets as they are now |
Projects |
Bokoro - Kebia School
In 2008, two Congolese priests asked us to build a school for 300 poor children. The existing building was in bad condition: small and crumbling... The 300 children who attended the school were forced to stay in cramped classrooms, poorly lit (of course the light of the sun: electricity is a luxury that the village cannot afford), with no chairs and no desks. We found a contractor willing to direct the work, which carried out an inspection, and the report was not encouraging: Bokoro is 500 kilometers far from the capital Kinshasa; it is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants (we do not know the exact number because there is not a Municipality), including thousands of children, and there are no roads to reach it; it can only be reached by river or military aircraft ... Imagine how many difficulties we encountered during the implementation of the project, a load of cement evensank during the fluvial transport! Although we had started to build a school to accomodate 300 children, optimizing costs, with the same expenditure a structure was built with not only classrooms, but also a toilet, which houses more than 1,300 children!
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