Article source: Studio FH Architects

The Cotton On Foundation is a non-governmental organisation from Australia which, amongst other programmes around the globe, is in the process of creating a total of 20,000 new educational places for primary and secondary school children in Southern Uganda by the year 2020. To achieve this ambitious target, several avenues are being pursued, amongst them the COF Outreach Village School programme which consists of the construction of primary schools in remote villages around the two districts of Rakai and Lwengo. Each school is to accommodate 500 students and ten teachers, the latter residing on site. Wherever possible, existing buildings are being upgraded and new buildings added as required. Three of these schools have been completed to date, five are under construction, and a further twenty or so are to follow in the coming three years.

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• Architects: Studio FH Architects
• Project: COF Outreach Village Primary Schools
• Location: Various villages in Rakai and Lwengo Districts, Southern Uganda
• Photography: Will Boase Photography
• Client: Cotton On Foundation
• Project Manager & Quantity Surveyor: Dudley Kasibante and Partners
• Structural Engineer: Aquila Gallery
• Appropriate Technology Consultant: Equatorsun

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