Location and general information
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Infrastructure and equipmentContext
The Unis Vers le Sport school in Sala, in Mali’s Bamako region, opened in 2008 with the aim of providing an academic, vocational, cultural and sporting education free of charge to about a hundred children who cannot afford to attend school elsewhere. Daily physical education lessons are integrated into the standard school curriculum and feature a wide range of sports, including football, basketball, handball and volleyball. This supports the pupils’ personal development by teaching them core sporting values such as respect for rules and for other people and the importance of committing to goals and striving to be the best they can be. Learning to play different sports also enables them to look after their physical and mental health and opens up a range of possible career paths, whether as athletes, teachers or coaches. Unfortunately, the school’s facilities are now dilapidated, making it very hard to deliver academic and sporting activities and threatening the future of the programme.
Project goals
The overarching aim of this project is to renovate the school to give pupils and teachers a safe environment, suitable for their academic and sporting activities. This will extend the impact of the original project, ensuring that new generations of children can benefit.
Specific objectives:
- Renovate all the school’s facilities
- Install a generator to power the school, which currently has no electricity
- Drill a well to address the lack of a clean water supply
Project content
The project milestones, in chronological order, are as follows:
- Refurbish the multi-sports area (concrete pitch/court, goals, basketball hoops, line markings, etc.)
- Replace all roofs
- Renovate the school buildings (internal and external walls, floors, stairs, perimeter walls, doors, windows, paintwork, etc.)
- Install a complete photovoltaic system (solar panels, inverters, batteries, panel supports, protective housing, etc.)
- Establish a well (borehole, pump, solar panels, water tank holder, water tank, etc.)
The work is expected to take three months to complete.
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