Creating Infrastructure
Creating Infrastructure
Infrastructure investments add up to a brighter future
Breadline Africa’s goal is to help children do better in school by ensuring that they have safer spaces to learn in. It’s difficult to focus on learning when a classroom’s roof is leaking and the temperatures drop in winter. Teachers also struggle to help their charges when they are worried about the children hurting themselves on a broken board or rusty nail. Many units that Breadline Africa replaces are unsafe and cramped – hot in summer and cold in winter.
Classrooms
It is vital for children to learn in safe and secure classroom structures that are fit for purpose, allowing for adequate space for the number of children attending a school. Many pre-schools in under resourced communities do not have separate learning spaces for children in different age brackets.
Libraries
In the library project, the knowledge that there is a dedicated space to read – to develop a love of reading … to lose oneself in a book – is invaluable. It’s a haven from the noise and demands of home and a doorway to a completely different world
Kitchens and Toilets
Safe and hygienic toilet facilities in pre-schools, restore dignity for both the children and the staff. Kitchen units allow staff to provide nutritious meals to the children in a safe and hygienic environment.
Full Pre-school
Often times a complete solution is required for a pre-school. We can provide a full pre-school solution which consists of two classrooms joined together, a separate kitchen and toilet unit, along with an office/ sickbay.
Apply for Infrastructure
At this time, we are pausing applications for early learning infrastructure to better align with our strategic priorities and impact goals. Thank you for your understanding.
Sustainable Structures
In 2021, Breadline Africa began investigating sustainable structures and began implementing alternative infrastructure to our current container and prefabricated options.
While containers offer great re-use opportunities, they have increased in price since the outbreak of COVID and are also prone to rust particularly in coastal areas. Our Alternative Infrastructure Project identifies and pilots alternative building methods that suit different environments and contribute to our sustainable development goals:
Biomass Recycled Insulating Concrete (BRIC) Structures
In October 2022, Breadline Africa launched its first classroom facility built with BRIC technology. This patented concrete alternative has massive applications for ECD infrastructure provision in Southern Africa. An interesting combination of alien invasive tree
Fibreglass Structures
Our second structure is somewhat more unconventional in that we worked with a boat-building company, Helderberg Marine, to build an Aventure Composite (fibreglass) kitchen and toilet structure for Sijongephamibili Crèche in Strand, Western Cape. Last
Sandbag Structures
Sandbag structures blend modern materials with traditional building techniques, using timber framing and concrete foundations, with up to 10% concrete or lime as a stabiliser in the earth mixture. They are built by vertically stacking
Sewer-less Toilets
The sewer-less toilet is not a chemical toilet, nor is it a flushing toilet. Urine diversion (separating liquid from solid waste) allows hygienic, dignifying, and safe toilet facilities to be provided without the need for
Plastic Brick Structures
In March 2022, Breadline Africa implemented its Alternate Infrastructure Project to identify and test more environmentally sustainable infrastructure solutions that are appropriate and suitable for the environments in which it works. Earlier this year, the
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