Calling for Student Soldiers!
In Malawi, Africa
October 7th-18th, 2013
Michael Reynolds and the Earthship Biotecture crew will be working together with a team of volunteers to construct the Earthship Flower design to function as a community center in Malawi.
Click for the Earthship Malawi Facebook Group at facebook.com
Earthship Biotecture and a team of volunteers will build an "Earthship Flower" community center in Malawi, Africa. We're working together with a local NGO, Empower Malawi, to gather the people and funds necessary to build two rooms (petals) of the flower. Construction will take place on October 7th-18th, 2013. Here is a video about it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/earthshipmalawi/doc/441257219285236/http://youtu.be/-dKEuFCOhPA
The project--Kapita Earthship Community Centre--is to become a sustainable development epicenter for 38 villages and over 5,000 rural people in South East Mzimba district in Malawi. The Kapita Earthship Community Centre is to house a community bank, a mini library, a dispensary, offices and a food bank.
This October, Earthship Biotecture will be joined by a team of student soldiers to build an Earthship flower design community center in Malawi, Africa. We are working together with a local NGO, Empower Malawi, to gather people and funds to spread the word and build two rooms (petals) over the course of ten days. The dates of this project are October 7th-16th, 2013.
The project, Kapita Earthship Community Centre, is to become a sustainable development epicenter for 38 villages and over 5,000 rural people in South East Mzimba district in Malawi. The Kapita Earthship Community Centre is to house a community bank, a mini library, a dispensary, offices and a food bank.
Dear all, Here is the Goderich Waldorf School, Sierra Leone, built with love.
With deepest gratitude to Mike Reynolds' gift to the world and everyone whose hands and/or hearts helped to make this dream a reality. Attached are photos of Sunday 17th February 2013.
Pema Clark
The Dhana Trust (UK)
for The Goderich Waldorf School, Sierra Leone http://www.goderichwaldorf.org/
(visit their website, tell them what you think)
Project Build an Earthship in Rural Malawi!
The project, Kapita Earthship Community Centre, is to become a sustainable development epicentre for 38 villages and over 5000 rural people in South East Mzimba district in Malawi. We want to plant the seed of an ideal condition from which a sustainable community can grow and flourish from a radically sustainable building made with recycled materials. With a budget of US$70000, the Kapita Earthship Community Centre is to house a community bank, a mini library, a dispensary, offices and a food bank. Local labour will be wholly volunteered, so no labour costs.
Appreciation, by Africa Earthship Project Facilitator Shannoh Kandoh
- I am sure by now, all of you must have arrived home after doing a fantastic job on the Earthship Goderich Waldorf School Building project in Sierra Leone. The community, teachers and children are so grateful and proud of your work which has added a new look to the Rokel community. With the build, people are visiting every day to look at the structure with insatiable wonder. I am pleased to let you know that the local volunteers are doing well at building the other classrooms and will be able to complete the whole structure.
- Please accept our compliments for making our dream of a child friendly school environment come true. You can personally say that, With your participation and contributions, children in the Rokel community have opportunity to go to school.
- Thanks so much for being part of this great achievement..
God bless you all.
Shannoh
Earthship Biotecture offerred 10 internship places on the build in Sierra Leone, Africa in October of 2011. The chosen interns worked alongside Michael Reynolds, the Earthship crew and 30 local interns.
The project is a Waldorf school, with catch water, drainage and economical solar power systems. Interns receive the wonderful currency of knowledge in return for their hard work. In addition to free lunch, served on site each day.
This internship filled up quickly with a long waiting list.
This is an explanation of how the Earthship Biotecture concepts can be applied to Freetown, Sierra Leon in Africa following a visit to the area by Michael Reynolds. The concepts were very well received and this document is meant to delineate how to take the first step. It is addressed to the politicos of Freetown but it really applies to all third world countries and should be understood by all countries.
From an intern on the Africa Earthship project - October, 2011.
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I hope you are well. I want to thank you for your great hospitality and effort during our trip to Sierra Leone. The trip was a life changing experience for me and many others I am sure.
The Earthship crew and about twenty interns stayed in one concrete house with a tin roof while building the Earthship school in Sierra Leone. There were two bathrooms.
Sinks with no plumbing, a hole in the floor for a bucket shower and a toilet with tank not hooked up to water. It was a bucket flush... but there was no water. Water had to be hauled in for both shower and flushing. This meant that most of the time there was no water to flush with. So things got a bit stacked up in the toilet. This is how life is in third world countries.
Dear Friends,
Hope you’ve settled down l back home, barely two weeks since you left the shores of Sierra Leone. Today is Thanksgiving Day in Liberia and a public holiday. For me it has been a time for reflection and thankfulness for God’s goodness through your awesome work.
Thanks so much for your support and the great time we spent together. It continues to be my prayer that as you brought joy to our children, your lives will be filled with favor and peace. Whatever good and noble desires you have will come to success. Making my dream come true through your work and sacrifices is a testimony that yours is possible no matter how long it takes.
Dear All,
Please find the latest photo of the local build. It is their first handwork. They're on plastering the third main classroom after completion they proceed to next. They said 14 days is realistic to work on each classroom.
Earthship Malawi, Africa.
6/11/2013
Africa Earthship Images
