Help students working in youth-adult partnership to repair storm-damaged rural schools in Mukono, UG using ISSB machines & blocks.

Update: June 2023 - We have one of the first classrooms constructed using Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks (ISSBs) as you can see in the photo and blog link below. We humbly call on your financial support to help us install 2 doors, 8 windows and floor. This will altogether take $2133. Thank you and we look forward for your contributions towards this noble cause.

https://ruralafricafacts.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/calling-on-your-assistance-for-installing-doors-windows-and-floor-in-the-newly-constructed-issb-classroom-block/

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Donations needed: For us to proceed, we need the following: 25 bags of cement ($250 USD = 925,000 UGX), 2 trucks of hardcore stones ($65 USD = 240,000 UGX), 2 trucks of gravels ($81.50 = 300,000 UGX), 20 iron bars ($190 USD = 700,000 UGX), 2 trucks of sand ($71 USD = 260,000 UGX), Technical labour for constructing the foundation and beams ($163 USD = 600,000 USD). The children with the assistance of technical builder, will be able to construct the walls once the foundation is laid. Students and community members made 25,000 ISSB blocks to repair-rebuild their rural classrooms.

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In May 2022, Mother Erinah Junior School suffered a very strong storm which completely destroyed all classrooms and children were left with no option other than having their lessons in open sunshine as per this LINK indicates, https://ruralafricafacts.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/interlocking-stabilized-soil-blocks-issb-for-constructing-classrooms-at-mother-erinah-junior-school/

In search for the best, cheap and sustainable solution to help build classrooms for rural schools, we picked on Interlocking Stabilized Soil Block (ISSB) Technology.

The Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks (ISSBs) are easy to produce and make construction work cheap and quick. With this kind of blocks, you don’t use cement while constructing but just interlocking the blocks and even children can easily interlock the blocks and no need of building construction experience.

The blocks are produced by mixing a little cement into soil. A bag of cement (50Kg) is mixed in 12 wheelbarrows of red soil which produces 130 blocks. The blocks are left to cure for 14 days and then 7-14 days for drying.

Lastly, we request for your financial support to help us buy cement for producing enough blocks for constructing more classrooms.

https://ruralafricafacts.wordpress.com/category/education/

https://www.kruralcommunities.org/