CH EC HOUSING PROJECT

CH EC HOUSING PROJECT

What is this? The partners What do we do? The achievements The challenge

What is this? The partners What do we do? The achievements The challenge

service learning experience development project

objectives : openmindedness to North-South relationship human, crosscultural and humanitarian experience

to reach the objectives spend one month there With a spirit of openmindedness and service to the local population participate in local development projects

In India building small houses for destitute families

In Burkina Faso financing a micro-dam planting trees

What is this? The partners What do we do? The achievements The challenge

ICHEC CLEMSON PARTICIPANTS INDIAN PARTNERS BENEFICIARIES BURKINABE PARTNERS DONATORS

SALEM Most Rev. Dr. S. Singaroyan Bishop of Salem DHARMAPURI Most Rev. Joseph Antony Irudayaraj Bishop of Dharmapuri 4 indian partners TIRUNELVELI Sr Annamary Provincial SEVAI Mr Govindaraju Director Sevaï

What is this? The partners What do we do? The achievements The challenge

10 Participants in each village The project takes place in South India

This is the kind of habitation the project replaces.

The present habitation the new home. the beneficiaries

Students are building houses

with the help of Indian workers

The aim is to build 9 to 10 houses per village. Houses are /- 24 m2 and cost /-700 each.

During three weeks, students share their time between the construction work and

the discovery of the Indian Villages

the experience of another culture

and the experience of living communally .

After three weeks houses can be inaugurated !

By the workers and the families

What is this? The partners What do we do? The achievements The challenge

In India for 16 years 545 participants 544 houses 3 schools 1 dispensary In Burkina Faso for 8 years 90 participants 43.000 given for micro-dams 38.500 trees

2006 2007 For three years now, Clemson students have joined the project. 2008

those are houses built in 2001.

What is this? The partners What do we do? The achievements The challenge

Humanitarian challenge India one student one house Burkina Faso 6000 trees - 1 micro-dam

crosscultural challenge openmindedness to other culture human challenge openmindedness and service to local people and team members financial challenge fundraising : 1.700 / participant

For more information: ICHEC Housing project Tel : 0032.2.778.03.07 http://housingproject.ichec.be [email protected]

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