NEW PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR 2027

Jeevanshala - The School of Life

Location: Sawaryadigar Village, Akrani taluka, Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India
Budget: EUR 43,000

High in the beautiful North Eastern area of Maharashtra, sits Sawaryadigar Village, a remote part of the Satpuda hill range. In this area we have been working on or next project: Jeevanshala "School of Life".

It will be transforming a genuinely unsafe building into a thriving, sustainable learning environment, complete with a working kitchen, dormitory and classrooms for hundreds of local children.

A truly all encompassing project, led by the community that will serve thousands of children for decades to come in an eco-sensitive way.

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Local ownership sits at the heart of the project: the community itself is leading the reconstruction and renovation, investing directly in the future of its own children.

This project will be led by our long-standing partner Building Trust International (BTI), with whom we've delivered many projects on time and on budget across Asia. The site is easily reachable within a day from Kathmandu, so our team in Nepal will also help oversee delivery and reporting on the ground, so we have a very strong team behind the project.

If the project is approved by Accuro, then construction can begin toward the end of the month - the ideal time of year to start, weather permitting it will take approximately 9 months to complete.

This is a genuinely exceptional project, built on a great deal of work the community has already put in, for children whose education has so far taken place in an unsafe building that was never fit for purpose, it will be transformative: a safe, happy place for thousands of children, for decades to come.

This project, in a similar way to our project in Bangladesh, will act as a showcase of what can be achieved in remote communities in a Eco-sensitive, contemporary and highly functional fashion, for a very conservative budget.

The community is 100% behind the project and will help and lead at any point possible, something that is vital in the projects we take on.