The Board of Trustees has set these main priorities for the next phase of our project.
- Boarding facilities for girls and boys.
Our original plan for boarding was to build hostels, or small, self-contained houses, within a secure, walled compound. This was to be done through HTA, a London architects firm, and Alan Caldwell, a long-term UK supporter of Chimbota. In 2019, they ran a competition for their architects to submit plans for the boarding facilities. The winning designs were chosen, but then, we were not able to move forward on this, mainly because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
However, HTA Architects have now linked us up with an architects’ NGO called Article 25, who we hope will take this project forward. The 2 winning architects from the competition, along with a representative from Article 25 will visit Malawi in July for a first site visit.
