School designs

We’d like to share these pictures as an update on the progress of our project at the Chin refugee camp in Mizoram, India, where the community is continuing their construction of nine schools to house over 800 Chin refugee children who are on the run from the brutal Tatmadaw.

As you can see in the photos, the school frame will be built using a mix of bamboo and hardwoods, which is not the typical way that buildings are now constructed in Southeast Asia. Hardwood has been chosen for its strength and durability, providing a solid foundation and ensuring the structural integrity of the building. This is particularly important in areas prone to challenging weather conditions or environmental factors, like Mizoram.

For its part, bamboo is a flexible and strong, highly sustainable, renewable resource that grows rapidly, and is very cost-effective. In addition, Mizoram has abundant bamboo resources to draw on. So it makes a lot of sense to use such an ecologically sensible, inexpensive and readily available building material on this project   

By incorporating both hardwood and bamboo materials, the construction of the school in Mizoram aims to create a safe, sustainable, cost-effective, culturally significant, and visually appealing learning environment for the Chin refugee children.

We welcome donors who would like to support this ongoing project by giving a contribution of any size, which can allow us to support their inspiring efforts.