Written on 11 august 2019 by Evert Debusschere
It is Eyram’s intention to build with the
Schoolbuilding
project in Ghana
This summer, two students from Ghent,
Belgium, started a project concerning the
building of a school in Mangotireke.
Mangotireke is a small village in the Volta
region of Ghana, not far from the city of
Ho. The village does not have the
appropriate facilities for education and
development. Teacher and pupil have their
classes outdoors, and in times of bad
weather, in the local church building. This
is the case for many villages in Ghana and
in neighbouring countries in West of
Africa. The children in the village are
excited about their coming school and
have the desire to be engaged. For them
several workshops are made. This is not a
normal school building-project as we
know, but this one aims to involve the local
people and they often give a helping hand.
They want to use local materials to raise
awareness about the riches that are
around the people and are in Africa. The
project is an initiative of Jack Eyram Azor
whom studied Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium
and is currently doing doctoral studies at
the KU-Leuven. Evert Debusschere is a
comrade from the same school and came
the whole month of July to help and
document the project.
local materials and so expensive imports
of materials will be avoided. The
inhabitants do know the materials and how
to use it and this surely must be revived
and refined again. The school shall
become a construction made out of wood,
bamboo, rock and clay the children of the
village shall come together to draw and let
their imagination and creativity flow
concerning the design of their school. On
the basis of their ideas and drawings a
design will be made that matches their
desire. Because of his passion for arts and
creativity he established CDACR. An NGO
which focusses on the assembly of artists
and ideas for the development of people
and nation through creativity and artistry.
Such is the name of the NGO: Centre for
Development through Artistic and Creative
research.
This building will be build with bricks,
something which occurs rarely in African
construction. Although the clay is present.
People have been using it in different
ways. The locals don’t know about the
possibility to turn clay into bricks or have
not thought of doing it. So together with
them a production of bricks has been set
up. This production is a manual
production, the clay is mined just beside
the building site. The clay gets crushed
and sieved, then it gets mixed and
moulded in a brick mould. To eventually
be fired. A brick machine has been made
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to press 60 bricks at once. The first load of as electricity. Therefore CDACR is calling
bricks has been made, now the production for donations. Beside that they also are
continues while the design is in calling for volunteers to come and help
development. The first costs that had been next year in the tropical Ghana.
made have been financed by the organizer
www.cdacr.ml info.cdact@gmail.com
himself but now there is no money
Eyram Jack Azor: 0555626399 Evert
anymore for further investments. And they
Debusschere: 0492826483
count on financial support. There is need
for money to update the work materials
and for the making of sanitary ware aswell

Picture 1 : Evert and the locals at the workplace

Picture 2: Eyram Azor Sieving of the clay with locals
Picture 3: Local citizens and volunteers at the brick pile