This document outlines plans by students and mentors from the Faculties of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Ljubljana to build a halfway house called Amasiko for street children in Kabale, Uganda in summer 2017. It provides timelines for fundraising, travel, and an 8-week construction period, and background on previous related projects building a school in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2009-2011. The goal is to help improve living conditions, education, and health for Ugandan street children with the support of the British charity Alongside Africa.
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1. TASK
TIMELINE
CONTACT
AND
DONATIONS
mentors
Anja Planišček
Aleš Vodopivec
Gašper Medvešek
assistents
Klara Bohinc
Katja Martinčič
Primož Pavšič
students
Anže Briški
Luka Derlink
Nastja Fingušt
Tina Hostinger
Eva Ivačič
Laura Klenovšek
Mojca Lebeničnik
Alessandro
De Ioannon
Ženja Maher
Mojca Mlinar
Lona Polona Pušnik
Rok Primažič
Gaber Robežnik
Giulia Sgró
Vesna Skubic
Nace Šinkovec
Matic Škarabot
Andrej Štornik
Janja Šušnjar
Jure Ule
Aleš ŽmavcROOF FOR ALL
MAKING THE GREETING CARDS
VISITING KABALE, AVGUST 2016
CORRECTIONS
PROJECT UGANDA 2017
AMASIKO, HALFWAY HOUSE
FOR STREET CHILDREN
student construction expedition
ROOF FOR ALL
Students from the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Civil and Geodet-
ic Engineering Ljubljana in their final year of study are organising a construc-
tion expedition to the city of Kabale in the south of Uganda. Our goal is to
build Amasiko - a halfway house for street children.
planning, collecting funds and materials
event for collecting funds
departure to Uganda
start of construction
end of construction
preparation of documentation and issue of the
publication
organisation president: Jure Ule štud. arh.
financial resources: Nace Šinkovec štud. arh.
expedition representative: Katja Martinčič m.i.a.
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We are a group of students and mentors from the Faculty of Architecture
and the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering Ljubljana. In the summer
of 2017 we are conducting a new developmental and humanitarian project in
sub-Saharan Africa. With our knowledge and to the best of our abilities we aim to
improve the living conditions, education and health of Ugandan street children.
In the town of Kabale in the south of Uganda we are building Amasiko - a
halfway house for street children in partnership with the humanitarian or-
ganisation Alongside Africa from Great Britain. Uganda is one of the poorest
countries in the world with a high percentage of children who have no home
and are growing up in severe hardship on the streets, without hope of gain-
ing an education and a dignified vocation. The organisation Alongside Afri-
ca has been managing a street children centre in Kabale for many years, but
with insufficient facilities for the growing number of children in need of help.
The goal of our project is to construct a building which will offer the chil-
dren a place to reside, gain a basic education and learn craft skills. We
have begun with the building design at the start of this academic year. We will
be aiming to use local materials and building techniques, encourage the local
economy and employ the principle of knowledge exchange.
In June 2017 we are going to Uganda, where we are building the halfway
house in eight weeks with the help of locals.
In addition to good will, knowledge and faith in a better future we also need
financial resources to reach our objective. The funds have to be collected by
the time of our departure for Uganda. We are collecting funds from sponsors
or donors to the account of the architecture students organisation Roof for
All.
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2. PAST
EXPERIENCE
2007 / 2010
ITHUBA SKILLS
COLLEGE
JOHANNESBURG,
UNDER AUSTRIAN
ORGANISATION
SARCH
2009 / 2010
ITHUBA: SCHOOL
FOR THE FUTURE
CLASSROOM AND
LIBRARY,
JOHANNESBURG
In the years 2009 and 2010 groups of students
and mentors from the Faculty of Architecture
in Ljubljana participated in the construction of
a school complex Ithuba Community College
in a highly underprivileged suburb of Johan-
nesburg, South Africa. Ithuba Community Col-
lege is a school for children from nearby shan-
ty towns, with a similar curriculum to state
schools and an emphasis on teaching the chil-
dren handicraft skills.
2010 / 2011
ITHUBA: SCHOOL
FOR THE FUTURE
MULTIPURPOSE HALL,
JOHANNESBURG
ThebuildingsinIthubawereconstructedbygroups
of students and mentors from various European
faculties of architecture in collaboration with local
workers and schoolchildren. The guiding principle
of building in Ithuba was “building together, learn-
ing together”. The success of Ithuba depended
on the good collaboration between the student
groups and the local community, and a mutual ex-
change of knowledge. In 2009 the groups planned
and constructed a classroom and a library, add-
ing a multipurpose hall in the following year. Both
buildings were constructed in their entirety, from
their foundations to their roofs, in eight weeks.
Both buildings designs are simple and effective:
they consist of volumes with living spaces, sepa-
rated bathrooms and an outdoor learning space.
It is covered by a large floating roof. The choice of
materials and construction design was dictated by
the need for simplicity, speedy construction, and
affordability: the construction elements are made
of steel, the walls are made of rammed clay and
straw. One of the project’s goals was to employ
easily accessible local materials and the possibility
of transferring the construction solutions into oth-
er locally made buildings.
2016 / 2017
AMASIKO
HALFWAY HOUSE
FOR STREET
CHILDREN
KABALE, UGANDA
The construction of Ithuba Community College buildings was on a
global scale only a small contribution to reaching the UN Millennium
Development Goals, however it has been of great importance for the
children in the nearby shanty town.
After a few years break, we wish to continue our work by making Ama-
siko - halfway house for street children” in Kabale, Uganda.
ORGANISATION ROOF FOR ALL, NOVEMBER 2016
MULTIPURPOSE HALL, JOHANNESBURG 2010
CLASSROOM AND LIBRARY, JOHANNESBURG 2009
POURING THE FOUNDATION CONCRETE, JOHANNESBURG 2009
LIFTING THE STEEL CONSTRUCTION, JOHANNESBURG 2009
CLAY RAMMING, JOHANNESBURG 2009
The organisation Roof for All is a non-profit humanitarian organi-
sation, founded by students of the Faculty of Architecture and the
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering in Ljubljana.
