Students build homes in Kenya

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Twelve students and graduates of the school of architecture have just completed their first building project - on an African construction site.

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The team, made up of two students and 10 newly qualified architects, spent three months in a remote region of western Kenya after the new architects graduated this summer. They helped the poverty-stricken population build family homes from corrugated iron and fired-clay bricks.

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Nine months of fundraising leading up to the project enabled the team to raise £20,000 meaning that six families who previously lived in sub-standard conditions without water or sanitation now have new homes. Graduates' council gifted £1000 to the fundraising effort.

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Featured here are some pictures from the trip.



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