“We provided windows for the school classrooms to keep out the mosquitos”
Project Co-ordinator: Karina Damasio
Location: Brazil, Amazon
COMPLETED in 2009
Summary
- The Combu School is located in the Amazon jungle and has 75 pupils.
- We will help improve the infrastructure of the school by providing windows for the classrooms to keep the mosquitos out.
- This will provide a safer environment and physical and mental well being for everybody.
- The project aims to improve the children’s learning through a better infrastructure because every child has the right to study in favourable conditions for their intellectual development, being respectable citizens.
- Description of Project
The Combu School has 75 children and is located in a remote area deep in the Amazon jungle.
The project aims to improve the children’s learning through a better infra structure because every child has the right to study in favourable conditions for their intellectual development, being respectable citizens.
The windows will help to keep away the mosquitoes that sometimes cause the interruption of lectures, disturbing children and teachers. This will provide a safer environment and physical and mental well being for everybody.
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