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Rotaract community projects Project presentation Rotaract Club Guatemala City January 2014

Rotaract community projects Project presentation Rotaract Club Guatemala City January 2014. Project 1 Junkabal School. Junkabal School. In zone 3 of Guatemala City What do we want to do? An audiovisual hall Paint the school and create gardens Build a better warehouse

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Rotaract community projects Project presentation Rotaract Club Guatemala City January 2014

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  1. Rotaract community projects Project presentation Rotaract Club Guatemala City January 2014

  2. Project 1 Junkabal School

  3. Junkabal School • In zone 3 of Guatemala City • What do we want to do? • An audiovisual hall • Paint the school and create gardens • Build a better warehouse • Restore the sports facilities

  4. Audiovisual hall • Wewanttogivetheman audiovisual hall with a computer, dvd, speakersand a projector Hereiswherewewanttoturnedintothe audiovisual hall

  5. Paint and flowers • We want to paint all the classrooms and create green areas.

  6. Warehouse • Habilitate a better and central warehouse

  7. Sports facilities • Restore the sports facilities. Turned the basketball court into a sports center

  8. Costs

  9. Project Costs

  10. Project Costs • $1 = Q7.83

  11. Lomas del Norte School

  12. Lomas del Norte School • Zone 17 of Guatemala City • What do we want to do? • New Kitchen • Well • Read Spot • Ecological Path • Vegetable Patch

  13. New Kitchen • Theschoollack of spaceforthekitchen. Wewanttobuild a new buildingforthekitchen. Old kitchen • Areaforthe new kitchen

  14. Well • The school has some kind of a well beside a class. The well is very damaged and creates a lot of damp. We want to enhance the piping and build a real tank.

  15. The read spot • There is a place in the school where the kids go to read and hang out. It is full of trash, damp, an old damaged fountain and stagnant water. We want to clean the spot, paint it, build new banches and restore the fountain to create a nice read spot.

  16. School Photos

  17. Ecological path • The school created an ecological path because they use a lot of trash that they found to create a bench, plant pots, a viewpoint and a musical classroom called «La ruina» - The Ruin. • We want to help with the reconstruction of «The Ruin» in order to habilitate a nice music class. We want to gave them instruments, desks and a board. We want to create a real ecological path with plants, a nice fence and finish the viewpoint.

  18. Vegetable patch • In the school they have little crops of vegetables that are use for the meals of the students. The plant pots are basically old wheels, metal containers and a wood fence. • We want to build a real fence, put the plants in real pots and to create an efficiente system for recollenting water.

  19. Photos

  20. Costs

  21. Costs

  22. Costs

  23. Liter of light project

  24. Liter of light Picture taken from www.aliteroflight.org

  25. What is it about? • Use plastic bottles to create light bulbs.

  26. How to build the light bulb? • Step 1. Prepare the galvanized metal sheet by tracing two circular patterns. • Step 2. Carefully cut the inner circle of the galvanized metal sheet with the hammer, chisel and cutter.

  27. How to build the light bulb? • Step 3. Cut and make small strips and bend it 45 degrees upward. • Step 4. Sand the bottle with sandpaper to allow glue to stick better.

  28. How to build the light bulb? • Step 5. Apply sikasealant • Step 6. Fill the bottle with water and 10 mL bleach

  29. How to build the light bulb? • Step 7. Protect the bottle cap from sun with a protective plastic tube.

  30. How to install it? • Step 1. Use the same circular patterns to trace and cut a hole on the roof • Step 2. Carefully place the bottle in the hole and check if it is perfectly fit

  31. How to install it? • Step 3. Put glue on the perimeter of the galvanized sheet and an inch outside the hole of the roof. • Step 4. Use a powdered drill to create six small holes on the galvanized sheet. Immediately rivet the holes.

  32. How to install it? • Step 5. To prevent water leakage put a rubber sealant at the edge of the bottle galvanized steel metal sheet. Then put a metal strip above the sealant. • Step 6. Seal the bottle from the inside • All the images were take from the video how to build a solar light bulb property of Liter of Light

  33. Beneficiaries • We will work together with the organization Americans Friends Service Committee. Together we will install the liters of light in the community «El Mezquital» or Ciudad Peronia in Guatemala City.

  34. Costs

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