Schools for the Desert

It looks like the end of the Earth. In the desert of Gujarat, India, there’s no sand, no trees, not even a blade of grass. Only baked, dried mud stretching for miles. Hundreds of families migrate here to earn about 500 dollars for eight months of back-breaking work. Their job: harvest salt from deep below the desert floor. It often comes at the price of their children’s future, relegating them, mostly girls, to the same work as an adult. You see, the only skill children learn here is raking salt under the hot sun. There were no schools. So CARE has started to bring the schools to the children. But every year some 20 schools have to be rebuilt after seasonal monsoons destroy the bamboo walls and burlap ceilings. We encourage Imagine This to help design a better school that’s not only mobile, lightweight and cost effective but also stands up to whatever mother nature can dish out. Most importantly, the structure must keep the children inside cool when the temperature outside rises to110 degrees or higher.

Look, no community can develop when children aren’t educated. Here’s a project that can help provide a whole new generation of these families with an opportunity to better achieve their potential.


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