JUNE 2008 – BOYS DORMITORY STARTS

After a consultation workshop with teachers, pupils and their parents, local architect David Bwalya has come up with an innovative design for a dormitory for 44 boys.

This includes integrated wash-rooms and a covered cooking-recreation space that create semi-circular ends to the building as in traditional rural structures. The building will be light and airy.

Fiwila school boys put their ideas down on paper

Architects impression of new dormitory

Tiles and blocks will be made on site and the contract to local builder Alfred Muyabe will employ around 10 skilled local labourers trained by BII.

Students and their families will contribute by collecting raw materials and clearing the site. At present the boys, who live up to 80 km away, doss down in a derelict mission building and have no proper washing facilities.

The building will cost around £25,000 and is funded by Holy Trinity Church, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury.

The girls already have two dormitories built three years ago.