Infrastructure – Investments for a brighter future

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 the 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.

Many of the pre-schools in need currently have unsafe shack structures where children are cramped and age-group learning cannot take place. A new container or prefabricated classroom lets children have a safe space to grow and learn.

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.

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.

Often times a complete solution is required for a pre-school. Did you know that 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.

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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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