Bholu helps colour the world of Indian schools

22 April 2010

Print this article Comments Bookmark and Share

Bholu 8 School has been designed by Architect Without Frontiers (AWF) volunteers working in India.

Children at the school have been involved in painting the school a bright yellow.

The school's architecture is focused on reusing water as an educational and hygiene tool as well as using recyclyed materials and objects to create exterior shade cloths and the children's playground.

Volunteers are involved in designing, documenting and supervising the construction and repair of the anganwadis (preschools) in the slum areas of Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India.

Each anganwadi currently consists of crude one-room galvanised or brick lean-tos which have little or no ventilation and light.

The anganwadis are constructed by local labourers and use largely recycled materials in order to support the Manav Sadhna philosophy of ‘reuse, recycle and reduce’.

Bholu 9 School is currently underway and is expected to be opened before the Indian Summer hits and monsoon sets in. Land for Bholu 10 has been found and is being prepared for the next school to be built next season starting in September.

The Anganwadi Project was initiated through the work of Jodie Fried, the founder of Bholu in 2005 after an nine-year association with the NGO Manav Sadhna, based in Ahmedabad.


Tags: Bholu | india | paint

Just in:

blog comments powered by Disqus

*

Enter the code shown:

Subscribe to our email newsletter

Sponsored links

Recent comments

The Book