Build a school from recycled materials for Maya

Summary

The Tecnico Maya School is a green construction project being built by Long Way Home (www.longwayhomeinc.org) in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala using recycled tires and litter-packed bottles. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Long Way Home’s purpose is to bring economic and educational opportunity to under-served and impoverished youth. The school will provide education beyond the ages of 10 and 11 and will teach care for the environment through a recycling effort in its construction. The beneficiaries will help in its construction by gathering trash filled bottles for use. The curriculum will also train a new generation of green builders in Central America. The project will be replicable and sustainable.

Activities

The school will teach traditional Maya language, culture, number system, Guatemalan national curriculum and vocational skills. It will be the first high school in the local area. It will teach green building technology and graduate green builders.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $15,450
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $14,550
Total Funding Goal: $30,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Children with further education can begin businesses to supply latrines, water tanks, stoves, housing and retaining walls bringing new green industries to the region. The students will have greater job opportunities and avoid the lure of gangs.

Project Message

"This is a replicable, cost-efficient method for waste disposal that when completed will provide a necessary environment for the young scholars of Comalapa to further their education."
- Matthew Paneitz, Executive Director and Founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Elizabeth Rose
Founder
90 Pond St.
Georgetown, MA 01833
United States
978-352-6804
Email:

Project Sponsor

Elizabeth Rose

Organization

Long Way Home, Inc. Logo

Long Way Home, Inc.
PO Box 815186
Dallas, TX 75381
United States
978-352-6804
http://www.longwayhomeinc.org

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Build a "green" vocational school for 300 Maya
Build a "green" vocational school for 300 Maya

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in GuatemalaGuatemala and can also be found under EnvironmentEnvironment.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on March 3, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 22, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Today, a backhoe visits the Tecnico Maya school site

By Elizabeth Rose - President, Board of Directors, Long Way Home, March 03, 2010 12:46 PM

Dear Long Way Home donors,

The school site has made much progress since I last visited in November 2008.

Today, February 26, 2010 we made significant progress because we hired a backhoe to move dirt around.

From January 2009 until today ALL work on the Tecnico Maya School has been done by hand, without any machinery.

But today, that all changed when we hired a backhoe to speed up the building process. Please see how much dirt has been excavated. This will save us three months of digging.

The crew is very happy about this because they have grown in their skills beyond digging. When I visited the site today they told me that they are thrilled to be learning new green building techniques. They do not want to go back to digging. Onward with tire packing and more challenging work!!!

And our architect, Ericka Temple is happy also. She wrote in her blog today:

"Excavation, excavation, excavation! The first ever LWH bulldozer was hard at work Thursday moving dirt and cutting into the slope so that our building crew can focus on BUILDING A SCHOOL. It was a happy day. Hand excavation has an appropriate time and place, as does calling in machinery – we were thrilled to be able to choose the right tool for the job at hand. The area for the next vocational workshops is now cleared and ready for foundation, and a small platform at the upper level was cleared out to produce enough dirt to continue with the retaining wall. Eventually the entire upper terrace will be excavated at this same level to create the platform for the primary school classrooms."

Please visit our website at www.longwayhomeinc.org for more updates. Thank you to all,
Elizabeth Rose, President, Board of Directors, Long Way Home

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