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The New Build Uganda 2007


Location – An isolated village 20km from Mubende Town.


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Problem – No permanent classrooms.  Only small, wattle and daub buildings, which required constant maintenance during the wet season.

Scope of Works – Construct seven classrooms, one staff room, two offices and two store rooms in three separate blocks.

Construction Period – 01/06/07 to 01/04/08

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Budget
– £30,000

Funding    
– Proceeds from the Phone Amnesty fundraising scheme.
- Various fund raising events.
- Private donations.
- Partnership donation by Mubende District local government.
- The local suppliers in Kakenzi provided sand and hardcore free of charge

Volunteers   
- Kakenzi – 400 in shifts
- Kampala, Uganda – 5
- Mubende, Uganda – 20
- Gulu, Uganda – 7
- UK – 24 

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Interesting Facts
–  The volunteers lived in a rented house on a hill opposite the school. Every day they collected water from a borehole in the valley 1km away.
-  Due to the high number of British volunteers, their time in Kakenzi was staggered so they could get a more genuine feel of the Ugandan way of life.
-  The local government provided a plastic water tank and a grant for installation of guttering to harvest rainfall on the new buildings for the school.
-  As the building work was in progress the number of pupils and teachers at the school steadily increased.  The school now has over seven hundred pupils in seven year groups.

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