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The New Build Uganda 2007 |
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Location – An isolated village 20km from Mubende Town.
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
 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
 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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