Did you know a school in Guatemala was built using plastic bottles?
Today in the design meeting and in our general meeting, we placed emphasis on discussing the materials we wanted to use to build the schoolhouse. Currently, our ideal material is using plywood but we do not know if we can get plywood in Nicaragua. Our options seem to be limited because Las Brenas, the community where we are building the school, is in a remote area. From the capital of Nicaragua, it takes multiple hours of bus rides, boat rides and mule rides to get to our destination so transporting materials is a big issue. If anyone has any ideas, even as creative as using plastic bottles, they would be welcome and feel free to come to our design meetings which are held an hour before the general meeting starts in the same place! (And if you're curious as to how the plastic bottles were used, check out the link on our Google Group: EWBUCLA Nicaragua-Sanitation)
And as always, we are still working hard to get grants, the fuel that drives our project forward.
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