Digambara Ashram english

Digambara Ashram S H E LT E R A N D D E V E L O P M E N T F O R C H I L D R E N A N D YO U T H

Childsrights

The Digambara Ashram project is an initiative undertaken

by Childsrights, the name by which the NGO RIGHTS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN INDIA is more commonly known, which was founded in Madrid in May 2009 by Christiane Gey.

christianegey@hotmail.com www.childsrights.es 0034-655214693 0034-676499334

Digambara Ashram brings together various objectives which are intended to be developed in different stages. Having bought the land in October 2015, Childsrights hoped to complete the creation of a complex where several children will be able to live who already form part of the NGO, provide shelter to 40 orphaned babies and to offer young people from Childsrights the possibility to establish themselves on a temporary or permanent basis once they have completed their studies.

At the same time a house for guests will be created, as well as a vegetable garden founded on organic agriculture and an ecological farm which will enable residents to be for the most part self-sufficient with regard to food.

“Maybe tomorrow we will have to sit down in front of our children and tell them that we were defeated. But we cannot look them in the eye and tell them that they live like that because we didn’t motivate ourselves to fight”.

Mahatma Ghandi

The purpose of this report is to present the architecture project which will bring Digambara Ashram to life, and to raise funds in order to make this initiative reality, where Childsrights aims to support the development of the most disadvantaged children and young people.

CONTENTS

Sahul’s drawing (In honour of the children from Childsrights we have decided to share some of their drawings throughout this report)

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Context of India

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Context of Childsrights

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Digambara Ashram

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The location

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Implementation

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Culture House

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Baby House

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Guest House

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Children’s House

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Earth House

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Eco-sustainable building

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Materials

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Cost of construction

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Maintenance, donations and stages

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Members of Childsrights

CONTEXT OF INDIA India is the second most populous country in the world, after China, with 1,270,000,000 inhabitants, which means it has 17% of the world’s population and is considered a subcontinent due to its 3.3 million km². It is an overpopulated country which according to statistics will continue to grow in the coming years until it becomes the country with the largest population in the world. This causes major social and economic inequality among its citizens.

To this day India continues to function in a caste system. The four main castes are: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, and on the lowest rung are found the untouchables or dalit, which is the social group which Childsrights works with.

Maternal mortality in India is 10 times higher than that in China due to the fact that only 40% of women have assisted births, the rest give birth at home in poor conditions. This causes nearly 1 million children to die every year before reaching one month old and more than 50,000 women also die during childbirth.

Without a doubt, the situation of childhood is the most serious problem faced by India, due to the high levels of mortality, illiteracy, exploitation of labour and malnutrition as well as the high risk of ill-treatment and serious health problems due to lack of health care and the overwhelming conditions of unhealthiness in which they live.

Although school enrolment has increased in recent years, nearly 12 % of children are still not in school and in the case of girls the figure rises to 24%. Abandoned children in the streets have it even worse, where the risk of falling into drug use, prostitution or being forced to work for gangs is disturbing. It should also be noted that the birth of a girl in India is an unsupportable burden for many families, resulting in around 0.5 million selective abortions of female foetuses every year.

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CONTEXT OF CHILDSRIGHTS WHO WE ARE Childsrights is a non-profit organization founded by Christiane Gey which works principally in two cities in India: Jaipur and Khajuraho.

Currently it offers housing, food, education, health and a life of dignity to a total of nearly 60 children who have been rescued from the streets where they lived in deplorable conditions and, in many cases, were victims of continuous exploitation, ill-treatment and abuse.

THE BEGINNINGS OF CHILDSRIGHTS Childsrights was officially established in Spain in May 2009 but its work in India began to develop at the end of 2007 when Christiane started an intensive period of research, field study and counselling with various organizations which worked with projects related to providing shelter, education and child development in different states in India. Finally, thanks to the help of the I-India organization, an experienced NGO in Jaipur, its project to open a shelter for street girls became reality.

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With the support of I-India, Childsrights rented its first home in January 2008 and began the process of welcoming the first girls who would live there. This process lasted a little more than a month and in February 2008 the first Childsrights home was officially opened, named Ganga III, after the sacred river Ganges of India, where 12 girls initially lived.

EVOLUTION During 2009 new girls arrived at Ganga III making a total of twenty-three, filling the house to its maximum capacity. In 2010 an American married couple who were supporting an orphanage with 21 children decided to move the project to Africa and return all the children back to the streets.

Christiane Gey became aware of this fact and decided to take charge of the orphanage and assume the project so it would not be abandoned, and so the second Childsrights house was created: Jhag. In 2012, once the first two houses were established and running, a new shelter Nane Home was established in the city of Khajuraho which currently houses a total of 5 girls and 6 boys. Lastly, in October 2015 Childsrights bought land for what will be the Digambara Ashram complex. Childsrights also takes care of 8 boys and 2 girls whom for different reasons could not be accommodated in any of the houses and it was decided to place them in a private school to take care of their needs.

HOW WE WORK

Poonam’s drawing |8

In order to guarantee greater success in the creation of homes, Childsrights carried out an exhaustive field study in the streets, to find out the personal situation of the children and their families or those taking care of them. Priority was always given to those children who were most disadvantaged and whose personal situation was most precarious: children who had suffered abuse, who were orphans or those who had been abandoned by their families. Next we explained to them the possibility of being given shelter in one of the houses with other children where they would benefit from a roof, food, carers and health care, as well as quality education.

Once the child is in the house the process of registering them and obtaining official documentation begins as, for official purposes, these children do not exist for the Indian government. Next comes education and a vaccination programme is carried out and issues are addressed related to malnutrition, eating disorders or possible illnesses which could affect the children.

Relatives can visit the children whenever they want and the latter visit during certain agreed-upon celebrations. The aim of this is for the impact on the child as well as the family to be as slight as possible.

VIABILITY The average expenditure for each child is 50€ a month, however each project has its own specific cost, since in each one the number of assistants working there, education costs, rent for the house and medical centres where they are enrolled all have different prices.

Currently the costs of all the projects together have risen to 3,000€ a month. This amount is covered in its entirety by the children’s sponsors.

Khushboo’s drawing | 10

Childrights has 43 sponsors in Germany and 58 in Spain who cover the full or partial fees of sponsoring a child. As well as the sponsors, Childsrights also receives one-off donations from contributors and at several times during the year it organizes events to raise funds, which are allocated for extra costs: health care, clothing, reforms to the houses, go on a pic-nic...

DIGAMBARA ASHRAM 1| OBJECTIVES Following all the work carried out by Childsrights until today and as a natural consequence of the evolution of its different programmes, the Digambara Ashram project was born, which aims to continue its work to support and help children and coordinate the integration of Childsrights young people once they have finished their studies. This means that Digambara Ashram does not have to depend on third parties to guarantee a home for all the children whenever they urgently need it.

The aim of Digambara Ashram is to look after the various needs which have arisen or will arise in the future due to growth of Childsrights, however, the main objective is to avoid the children’s having to return to the streets once they become adults therefore, the goal this project will pursue is to build a complex which belongs to all the children at Childsrights and ensures, whatever the personal situation in which they may find themselves in the future, that they have a home which belongs to them and where they can live, develop economic activities or train themselves in order to find a job either inside or outside Digambara Ashram, since the intention is, in the long run, for the majority of tasks which need to be carried out in the complex to be carried out by Childsrights young people.

Jyoti’s drawing | 12

In order for it to be viable and for the project to start as soon as possible, there is a plan to build a house which will be home to the children from Nane Home in Khajuraho who are the youngest and who need the most attention, in this way a same space will be created in which children from Childsrights can grow together. Similarly, we want to build two houses to look after 40 orphaned babies and offer them a decent future in a welcoming and healthy environment, to create an organic vegetable garden and an ecological farm in order to produce food for the residents and create a guesthouse to receive guests which will allow the necessary income for the project to become selfsufficient.

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2| THE LOCATION

Digambara Ashram

The land on which Digambara Ashram will be built has an area of 10,576 m2 and is 1.5 km to the west of the municipality of Picholiya in the district of Ajmer, in the state of Rajasthan. Its location has been chosen as it lies in the middle of nature with access to a good school and at the same time it’s 14 kilometres from the city of Pushkar which has well-equipped medical services and in turn is an important tourist hub, which will facilitate the visit of a large number of guests. Moreover, it is 120 km from Jaipur where the Ganga III and Jhag houses are located, thus bringing together the projects in a relatively short radius which allows for their smooth running.

The inhabitants of the area are humble people who live in poverty, mainly farmers who are condemned to survive with little income and who work the land, breeding animals or breaking rocks and loading and unloading baskets of rocks which are used in construction. The main problems are unemployment, with a rate of nearly 80%, malnutrition, poor health care, high mortality rates during childbirth, child labour, nearly 90% of children work in the countryside, alcoholism in men and illiteracy which reaches 65% in women and 40% in children. Nevertheless, in recent years there has been a reduction in the number of boys and girls between 6 and 14 who do not go to school thanks to the passing of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act in 2009.

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3| IMPLEMENTATION Protection ring 1

Protection ring 2

Earth House Children’s House

Buildings/ closed spaces

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Ether

Fire Sun protection casing

Earth

Water Connecting courtyards

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Digambara Ashram is the product of its surroundings and the bioclimatic and environmental conditions of its location. The project defines the landscape which surrounds it, and at the same time is nourished by elements found in nature to create its own internal landscape.

It is inspired by the pancha maja-bhuta (five great elements), of Hinduism and early Buddhism: earth, water, fire, air and ether.

The 5 elements reveal themselves in the functioning of the 5 senses of man, as well as in his physiology, and they are directly connected with his ability to be aware of the external environment where he lives. For this reason the project proposes a great number of situations, spaces and experiences which will stimulate the 5 senses, for guests as well as for the children, who will be the real protagonists of Digambara Ashram.

Implementation is resolved via two “rings” which mark the different levels of the project’s activity. The first ring, consisting of vegetation and stone walls, protects the most peaceful spaces: the vegetable garden, the Earth House, the Children’s House, and certain paths along which one can walk and meditate while contemplating the landscape. The second ring, inside which are located the Baby House, the Guest House and the Culture House, protects the heart of the project, a large courtyard which will become a meeting place where all the inhabitants of the Digambara Ashram can come together.

Integration into the landscape is one of the starting points. The area’s mountain skyline is taken as a reference, suggesting a single element of continuous roof which breaks and slopes, solving on one hand the issue of rainwater drainage during monsoon season, and on the other producing our own mountainous skyline.

It is likely that as a consequence of the quarrying of stones that has been taking place in recent years in the mountains which surround us, the mountains are slowly disappearing from our surroundings. In this case the project aims to record the identity of this landscape, becoming the reflection of the mountains which once existed and which will never return.

mountains of the area mountains generated by the sloping roof

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4| CULTURE HOUSE

The Culture House is one of the focal points of the Digambara Ashram. It will have enough space to host a number of activities and meetings of all types. This space will focus its activities on child and youth development, and in the exchange of knowledge between Digambara Ashram’s inhabitants and visitors.

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CINEMA

SMALL THEATER

LARGE PERFORMANCES

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5| BABY HOUSE The Baby House is made up of two buildings which will be used to house, take care of and educate 40 orphaned babies. One house will be for 20 boys and the other for 20 girls. Adoption of new children who join Childsrights will happen thanks to the cooperation of police and local organizations.

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The construction of these houses was considered of vital importance to address one of the main problems which exist in India: the large number of babies who are orphaned at birth or are abandoned by their parents. Among other reasons is the high mortality rate of mothers in childbirth or the inability of parents to provide for the child. These children, if they do not die, are usually abandoned directly in the streets or in orphanages which are overflowing and cannot offer them adequate care or, in the worst case, left with mafias who use them for trafficking.

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32,5 m2 17,7 m2 15,4 m2 32,5 m2 5,2 m2 20,4 m2

7. Living room 22 m2 8. Outdoor communal area 152 m2 9. Storehouse 15 m2 10. Connecting courtyard 76,8 m2 11. Boys’ bedroom 32,5 m2 12. Carers’ bedroom 15,4 m2 13. Bathrooms 17,7 m2 14. Boys’ bedroom 32,5 m2 15. Storehouse 28,9 m2 16. Outside commual area 113,41m2

Boys’ House

Girls’ House 20 cots + 2 beds

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2 carers

20 girls

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Communal area & kitchen

Connecting courtyard

20 cots + 2 beds

2 carers

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6| GUEST HOUSE The guest house consists of two independent spaces, one with four double rooms and another with six. The guest house is intended for a type of alternative, responsible, ecological and sustainable tourism, for those in search of rest, contact with nature and connection with oneself, while supporting a social project. The accommodation will include 100% vegetarian and ecological food, as well as the opportunity to take part in yoga classes, meditation practices and guided walks of the surroundings.

The guest house plays a fundamental role in the maintenance of Digambara Ashram, as it will provide the necessary income for its maintenance, enabling the project to be self-sufficient and not reliant on outside funds for its development and daily running.

1. Double bedrooms 2. Bathroom

3. Bathroom 4. Private terraces 5. Outdoor communal area 6. Storehouse 7. Connecting courtyard 8. Double bedrooms 9. Bathroom 10. Bathroom 11. Private terraces 12. Kitchen-dining room 13. Living room 14. Outdoor communal area

49,4 m2 9,2 m2 9,2 m2 30 m2 45,3 m2 11,7 m2 67,6 m2 73,3 m2 15,2 m2 9,9 m2 45,3 m2 15,4 m2 14,4 m2 126,1 m2

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Guest Bedrooms 1 4 double bedrooms

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Communal area & kitchen

Guest Bedrooms 2 6 double bedrooms

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Central courtyard, connecting courtyards and covered spaces Digambara Ashram’s central courtyard is the heart of the project, a large open-air space. It is the place where all paths converge, and is considered to be the main meeting point of all the houses.

A water pond subtly divides this central space, with on one side the outdoor space belonging to the Guest House, and on the other, the outdoor space belonging to the Baby House, in order to mark off and separate the play area for the children from the rest of the project.

The next level of privacy is found in the connecting courtyards of each house. Each of these courtyards, including the large central courtyard, has a different character and represents each of the 5 elements of Hinduism. The large open-air central space represents the ether, which in Sanskrit means “space” and in some languages in India means “sky”. Each of the other four courtyards represent one of the other four elements: earth, water, fire, air, through the different motifs and shades which the cement floor tiles of these courtyards can take on.

Lastly, there is a large quantity of covered spaces which surround the houses’ most intimate spaces. These spaces are protected from the outside via the roof and a series of vertical elements which make these spaces useful during the majority of the year (as they are protected) but at the same time economical (as they are not completely closed). In addition, these transitional spaces help to protect the rooms from the sun and wind.

Amir’s drawing | 26

7| CHILDREN’S HOUSE 9 8 10

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4. Study area 5. Kitchen 6. Living Area- Dining room 7. Outdoor communal area 8. Bedroom 9. Bathroom

10. Terrace

48,6 m2 8,8 m2 8,3 m2 27,5 m2 7,1 m2 33,4 m2 95,9 m2 24,1 m2 6,5 m2 14,3 m2

Firstfloor 1 bedroom Christiane Gey

Groundfloor 6 bunk beds + 2 beds

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2 carers 6 girls 6 boys Kitchen

The Children’s house is a separate building from the rest where the Childsrights’ children who live in Nane Home will be housed, along with Christiane, who will be the main teacher for the children and who will personally manage the entire project. This house will have capacity for 12 children plus two rooms for the staff who look after them.

It is considered necessary to move the children from Nane Home in order to be able to integrate them into the project since the house is located in the town of Khajuraho, 760 kilometres away and the children’s care and development would be greatly affected.

This will also minimize expenditure on maintenance and the children will be enrolled in an English school which is appropriate to their age. However, it has been decided to keep the children in the Ganga III and Jhag houses, which are in the city of Jaipur 120 kilometres away, so as not to interrupt their studies, as around Picholiya there are no schools for children over 12 yeras old (there is an english school, which will offer studies for older children in 2018).

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8| EARTH HOUSE TYPE 1: Aromatic Plants

Productive contact with the land is not only necessary if we want to maintain a balance with our surroundings, in addition, it teaches children to learn from nature, and teaches them to grow and harvest food.

For this reason around 5,000 m2 have been set aside for the creation of an organic vegetable garden where a great variety of plants, vegetables and fruits will be grown for the day to day needs of the Ashram. Similarly, there will be several cows which will help to cultivate the land and provide milk and manure in order to create a healthy soil which is rich in minerals, which helps to conserve water and withstand periods of drought.

One aspect which is considered of vital importance in the Digambara Ashram is the production of its own food, which is why the creation of an ecological vegetable garden and a shed with cows has a role which is important for several reasons. First of all so that the project is as self-sufficient as possible, but also in order to offer vegetarian and ecological food to all its members and to teach the children to grow and harvest their own food. We intend to educate the children in contact with nature so that they learn to value and respect it.

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TYPE 2: Sectored planting

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tomato

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spinach

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TYPE 4: Planting over a wide area

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9| ECO-SUSTAINABLE BUILDING BIOCLIMATIC BUILDING The project for Digambara Ashram is designed from a bioclimatic perspective, that is to say, using the natural resources which the climate and the buildings’ surroundings offer in order to reduce its energy consumption to a minimum while maintaining the comfort of its inhabitants (see bioclimatic strategies on the following page)

A SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDING

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This is a building which is capable of being self-sufficient without needing outside assistance in order to function, using existing natural resources.

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WATER Wells will be created which will supply water to the whole complex.

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ECOLOGICAL BUILDING

FOOD Garden zones and an ecological farm will be created which will enable the inhabitants to be self-sufficient for most of their food needs.

One of the priorities is to create this complex with quality construction which is beneficial for the environment as well as for all those who inhabit it.

To achieve this, durable, traditional materials from India will be used as well as natural ones such as brick, bamboo and jute rope.

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Solar thermal collectors will be added to generate domestic hot water and photovoltaic solar panels to produce electricity for free to supply all the complex with hot water and electricity thanks to the sun’s energy.

BIOCLIMATIC STRATEGIES

VENTILATION

Pushkar has a warm semi-arid climate with mild and dry winters and very hot and rainy summers. The prevailing winds in summer are from the north-east, west and north.

Solar radiation is very high as during the majority of the year the sun is in a very vertical position. The main bioclimatic strategies to follow in order to achieve an efficient and comfortable building are:

| 1. Using the prevailing northerly winds in summer to cool down indoor spaces. | 2. Evaporative cooling through water and vegetation which cools the air originating from prevailing winds thus managing to lower the temperature of this air and reduce the feeling of warmth inside these spaces. | 3. Ventilated roof separate from the building which enables cool air to supply natural ventilation thus reducing the feeling of warmth. | 4. Cross ventilation in all rooms to cool down the interior spaces and reduce the feeling of warmth.

PROTECTION FROM THE SUN | 5. Double roof: the ventilated roof becomes a major factor of protection against the sun which protects interior spaces as well as exterior ones so that activities can be carried out outdoors. | 6. Protection from the sun of interior and exterior spaces thanks to the latticework of ropes and bamboo which avoids the overheating of these spaces.

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MATERIALS

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| 7. Walls of solid brick and concrete floors. Materials with high thermal inertia which absorb the heat during the day and release it at night when nocturnal ventilation is able to disperse it and thus cool the air. | 8. Roof with a white finish or reflective material to reflect the solar radiation and avoid overheating of the lower air.

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10| MATERIALS 1. BAMBOO The tropical and subtropical climates typical of India have made it a country known worldwide for its production of bamboo. With 65% of world production, India is currently the number one producer of bamboo, an activity which represents a very important source of income in the country.

Bamboo will be used as a structuralmaterial as well as in the external casing of the building, providing protection from the sun and enabling cross ventilation in all its rooms.

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2. ROPE Jute rope will be used to cover the interior courtyard.A covering which will be “sewn” in situ, and which will serve as a support for climbing plants such as Celastrus Paniculatus, a commonly-found plant in India. This will also serve as protection from thes sun for the spaces surrounding the central courtyard. The rope is a very versatile material which will enable us to make swings for the children, ornamental weaves, walls for hanging the children’s drawings, etc.

3. CONCRETE FLORING Poured concrete will be used in the flooring of the covered exterior spaces of each house, offering a simple, economical and durable solution over time.

4. CEMENT TILES This material, which is handmade, will be used in the horizontal and vertical cladding of the connecting courtyards of each house.

In each one of these spaces different ornamental motifs will be used inspired by Indian wall hangings and rugs, giving each courtyard its own stamp of identity.

5. BRICK Solid brick, a traditional construction material in India, will be used to build the closed spaces in each house, contrasting with the lightness of the bamboo and ropes of the exterior casing.

Brick will also be used in the paved area of the central courtyard, thus achieving a rough and resistant surface which can support any activity.

6. STONE Stone walls will be used to make part of the plot´s perimeter fence (Ring 1). In the perimeter limit there will be some buildings such as the Earth House and the Children’s House, which will also be partially constructed with this material.

11| COST OF CONSTRUCTION In order to estimate the budget some calculations have been made in relation to the project presented, asking various local builders and architects to price the construction of Digambara Ashram, for this reason the prices below include materials as well as travel to and from the site and labour costs.

Items have been divided into the following groups: urbanization and landscaping tasks, the buildings in the first ring, the necessary items to accommodate the covered spaces of the second ring and lastly the buildings that are located in the second ring. All the buildings will be made of the highest quality materials, but also simple ones (brick and stone walls, reinforced concrete floors, bamboo or wood structure and wood joinery) .

The total cost for the Digambara Ashram construction (summation all the amounts of the tables) is 408.640 €.

1_ URBANIZATION AND LANDSCAPING

2_ BUILDINGS IN THE FIRST RING CHILDREN’S HOUSE EARTH HOUSE MAINTENANCE HOUSE

Item description

€/unit

1.1_ Stone wall

15 €/m

1.2_ Natural bamboo fencing

Measure.

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304 m

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Cost 4.560 €

2 €/m

290 m

580 €

10 €/m2

440 m2

4.440 €

1.722 €/ud

2 ud

3.444 €

1.5_ Bench and brick seating

14 €/m2

297 m2

3.962 €

1.6_ Orchard

1 €/m2

5.543 m2

5.543 €

1.7_ Brick paving

14 €/m2

392 m2

5.488 €

TOTAL

3’2 €/m2 8.755 m2 28.017 €

1.3_ Ponds 1.4_ Well

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Item description

€/unit Measure.

2.1_Concrete foundation slab with polished finish 2.2_ Brick wall 1/2 foot 2.3_ Stone wall 2.4_ Flat concrete wall 2.5_ Bamboo or wooden pergola 2.6_ Wooden door 2.7_ Wooden joinery window 2.8_ Equipped kitchen 2.9_ Toilets & bathrooms 2.10_ Plumbing installation 2.11_ Electrical installation 2.12_ Furniture TOTAL

48 €/m

14 €/m2 15 €/m2 31 €/m2 5 €/m2 180 €/unit 120 €/unit 480 €/m2 80 €/unit estimate estimate estimate 180 €/m2

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233 m

11.184 €

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129 m

6.192 €

31 m

1.488 €

254 m2 72 m2 193 m2 98 m2 12 units 13 units 2’5 m2 11 units

3.556 € 1.080 € 5.983 € 490 € 2.160 € 1.560 € 1.200 € 880 € 2.400 € 4.800 € 12.000 € 47.293 €

23 m2 102 m2 129 m2

322 € 1.530 € 3.999 €

9 m2 42 m2 31 m2

126 € 630 € 961 €

5 units

900 €

3 units 1 units

540 € 120 €

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233 m2

2 units

129 m2

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160 € 3 units 800 € 1.600 € 2.000 € 16.303 € 31 m2

240 € 600 € 1.200 € 2.000 € 7.005 €

3_ OPEN SPACES IN THE SECOND RING CASING Item description 3.1_Concrete foundation slab with polished finish 3.2_ Bamboo or wooden pillar 3.3_ Bamboo or wooden beam 3.4_ Bamboo or wooden joist and sheet metal roof 3.5_ Sun protection. Bamboo 3.6_ Sun protection. Jute rope 3.7_ Cement tiles 3.8_ 1/2 foot brick wall TOTAL

€/unit Measure.

Cost

COURTYARD ACCESS CHILDREN’SCOURTYARD GUEST COURTYARD CULTUREHOUSECOURTYARD Measure.

Cost

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Cost

Measure.

Cost

1.666 € 448 € 2.114 €

194 m2 44 m2 76 m2

2.716 € 616 € 3.332 €

165 m2 31 m2 67 m2

2.310 € 434 € 2.744 €

347 m2 45m2 152 m2

4.858 € 630 € 5.488 €

48 €/m2 1356 m2 65.088 € 22 €/m 22 €/m

186 m 406 m

4.092 € 8.932 €

29 €/m2 1.356 m2 39.324 € 15 €/m2 560 m2 8.400 € 15 €/m2 221 m2 3.315 € 14 €/m2 119 m2 2 14 €/m 32 m2 105 €/m2 1.356 m2 129.151 € 29 m2

4_ BUILDINGS IN THE SECOND RING GIRLS’ HOUSE Item description 4.1_ 1/2 foot brick wall 4.2_ Flat reinforced concrete roof 4.3_ Wooden door 4.4_ Wooden joinery window 4.5_ Equipped kitchen 4.6_ Toilets and bathrooms 4.7_ Plumbing installation 4.8_ Electrical installation 4.9_ Furniture TOTAL

€/unit Measure.

14 €/m2 31 €/m2 180 €/unit 140 €/unit 480 €/m2 80 €/unit estimate estimate estimate 190 €/m2

255 m2 158 m2 4 units 17 units 2’5 m2 8 units

158 m2

Cost 3.570 € 4.898 € 720 € 2.040 € 1.200 € 640 € 1.600 € 3.260 € 10.000 € 27.928 €

BOYS’ HOUSE Measure.

Cost

190 m2 2.660 € 124 m2 3.844 € 4 units 720 € 10 units 1.200 €

GUEST HOUSE 1 Measure.

180 m2 67 m2 8 units 4 units

Cost

GUEST HOUSE 2 Measure.

2.520 € 318 m2 2.077 € 132 m2 1.440 € 13 units 480 € 11 units 2’5 m2 6 units 480 € 8 units 640 € 14 units 1.280 € 840 € 2.560 € 1.420 € 8.000 € 6.000 € 124 m2 20.744 € 67 m2 15.417 € 132 m2

Cost 4.452 € 4.092 € 2.340 € 1.320 € 1.200 € 1.120 € 1.360 € 2.720 € 8.500 € 27.104 €

5_ OTHER CONSTRUCTION EXPENSES Description 5.1_ Professional fees

30.000 €

5.2_ Construction fees

20.000 €

5.3_ Legal and administrative expenses

6.000 €

5.4_ Displacement expenses

12.000 €

5.5_ Maintenance expenses TOTAL

8.000 € 76.000 € 37 |

12| MAINTENANCE, DONATIONS ANDSTAGES MAINTENANCE Once the project has been built, the monthly costs of Digambara Ashram will be the following: Baby Children’s Expenditure House House Electricity

50 €

40 €

Guest House 100 €

Rest of complex TOTAL 150 €

340 €

180 €

1.500 €

Gas

40 €

30 €

40 €

Staff*

600 €

120 €

600 €

Clothing

200 €

100 €

Comida

700 €

250 €

350 €

Sundry expenses** 400 €

100 €

150 €

150 €

800 €

1.240 €

480 €

4.350 €

TOTAL

1.990 € 640 €

110 €

Orchard:

_ 1 farmer Guests’ House: _ 2 people for cleaning and maintenance _ 1 receptionist. _ 1 cook. _ 1 waiter. _ 1 driver

300 € 1.300 €

* Staff: Baby House: _ 4 live-in carers who live in the Ashram _ 1 woman for cleaning and maintenance.

Children´s House: _ 1 women for cleaning and maintenance.

(Same person as in Baby House).

** Sundry expenses include: products for personal hygiene, for home cleaning, school material, products for maintenance of the vegetable garden and the stable, petrol for the bus and various products for the maintenance of the Ashram.

These costs will be covered by the income generated by the complex via the three following points: _ Contribution of the sponsors of the children from Nane Home...................650 € _ Contribution of new partners and collaborators ..................................... 550€ _ Income from the Guest House ..... 3,150€ Total income maintenance ..............4,350 €

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The income of the Guest House is calculated based on a daily price of €15 per person.

This price will include accommodation, three meals and the possibility of participating in yoga and meditation classes to be offered daily. An average occupancy of 35% has been calculated, i.e. 7 guests per night, as the total capacity is 20 people.

The total expenditure of the Children’s House is covered by the contributions of the current sponsors of the children of the ‘Nane Home’ House, who will be moved to the Digambara Ashram.

A one-off expense will be the purchase of a school bus valued at € 8,000 which will be paid via donations to the project. These two sources of income (accommodation in the guest house and donations from the sponsors of children from ‘Nane Home’) cover 87% of the total expenditure of the Digambara Ashram which would leave 13% (50 €) that will be covered by the contributions of new partners.

DONACIONS Financing methods to cover construction expenses will be exclusively through donations, and contributions can be made to the following account: Derecho Niños Desfavorecidos India ES03 1491 0001 2021 5810 6928 BIC/ swift: TRIOESMMXXX

STAGES The project is designed to be implemented in stages, depending on the budget allocated.

The stages will be as follows: STAGE 0_ Construction of the fence, the water wells, installation of the electricity supply and the maintenance cabin.

STAGE 1_ Construction of the Children’s House, where the children currently living in the ‘Nane Home’ House in Khajuraho will be relocated, more than 760 km from the rest of Childsrights’ children.

STAGE 2_ Construction of the Baby House, consisting of two brick buildings that will be designed to house, care and educate 20 orphaned babies each STAGE 3_ Construction of the Guest House, which will be divided into two brick buildings that can accommodate 20 visitors, volunteers and/or tourists who are looking for rest in an environment in the middle of nature.

STAGE 4_ Construction of the Earth House, consisting of a cow shed, and a storehouse to service the more than 5,000 m2 of organic vegetable garden that will meet the demands of the inhabitants of the project.

FUTURE EXPANSION_ In any case the Digambara Ashram is not a closed project since, once the stages detailed here have been completed, we intend to start a new stage in which a new house will be built to welcome the children of Childsrights

who after completing their academic training will have need of it.

At this same stage there is a plan to create workshops on DIY, jewellery, textiles, etc ..., that will serve to train young people in different professions.

There is also a plan to create rooms for massages and medicinal therapies in order to offer these services to guests, as well as a delivery and first aid room to meet the basic health needs of the local population.

This possible future expansion of the Digambara Ashram has been considered as constructions connected to the perimeter ring, which like the Earth House and the Children’s House, arise from the perimeter stone walls, separating themselves from it and creating living spaces.

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13| CHILDSRIGHTS FOUNDER OF CHILDSRIGHTS Christiane Gey SPONSORS Amparo Vidal & Diego Melia Ana Santos Yunquera Ana Sánz Santos Andrea Vogel Anja Fischer & Stefan Böhm Arancha Regadera Arturo Carratala & Anabel Regadera Assia Gil Pérez Carla de la Vega Christiane Aust Danijela Kirsch Diana Christen Encarna Calvet Sancho Elena Serna Miguel Elena Vázquez González Esperanza Palop Marro Esteban Domingo Carafí Eugen Jakubowski Eva Alba Martinez & Alfonso Fania Molina Caravaca Gertrud & Hubertus Ortmann Hanna Rubensson Ignacio Fernandez Fernandez

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VOLUNTEERS AND FRIENDS Isidro Rodríguez Marugán Jacinto Ribas García José Luis Pérez Kathrin Stockhausen Leonhard Paul Thoma Leslie Atkinson Gamble Loic Vecchio Luis Ángel Valdelvira Sánz M.Paz Zúnica Ramajo Manolo Pardo Sala Marcos Soria Maria Joaquina Moreno Poveda Marie Heitzinger Melanie Blomenkamp Miriam Regadera González Monika Püllen- Faber Natalia Alonso Casan Paolo Rooso & Rosa Bono Pilar María Castelló Rosi & Bernd Zewe Salma Alba Martinez & Ángel Stefanie Bücker Sigrid Aust Voline & Gerhard Fischer Verónica Pedron García Willi & Elisabeth Gey Yvette “Flow”

Alba González Navarro Ana Jesus Quinto Andrea Denis Rosetti Bapu Ganesh Bernardo Alonso Cafés de la horas (Marc) Carmina Martínez García Claudia Holzhäuser Dhanmeet Eirini Delaki Dr. Alexander Gey ¨smiling-children¨ Dr. Paul Püllen Eva Hernández Tadeo & Kike Arocas Familia Weingarten Familia Stefan Gey Francisco Muñoz Pizarro IGS-Schule Emden Judit Arís Moreno Maria Guasp Mater-Salvatoris-Schule Horrem Silke Wiegand & Dieter Dichantz Swami Rameshwarananda Giri Maharaj Susana Garrido Svenja Stadtschreiber

GIRLS AND BOYS FROM CHILDSRIGHTS Ajay (6 years) Ambika (11 years) Amir (13 years) Anjana (8 years) Archana (10 years) Chandra Mukhi (11 years) Fazil (7 years) Garvita (14 years) Gamini (16 years) Gayatri (12 years) Gulabshah (11 years) Jeenat (15 years) Jyoti (14 years) Jyoti (10 years) Jyoti (13 years) Kailash (10 years) Kalu (13 years) Kavita (9 years) Krishna (5 years) Krishna (7 years) Khushboo (9 years) Laxmi (10 years) Mahek (6 years) Mahesh (6 years) Mamta (16 years) Manoj (12 years) Monu (10 years)

Mukesh (14 years) Muskan (11 years) Nandini (14 years) Pinki (18 years) Pooja (16 years) Prakash (6 years) Preety (7 years) Pushpa (12 years) Rajani (15 years) Raju (15 years) Ravi (13 years) Rudra (8 years) Sahil (8 years) Sameen (13 years) Sangita (11 years) Sangita (15 years) Shabnam (14 years) Shivam (5 years) Shivani (11 years) Sidhard (3 years) Sonu (13 years) Susmita (13 years) Tahoma (8 years) Teena (9 years) Thinkoo (10 years) Vinod (13 years) Vikas (16 years) Visha (5 years)

CARERS AND TEACHERS Mr. Charu Mrs. Darshna Mrs. Jaya Mrs. Krishna Mrs. Leela-Bay Mr. Mahesh Mrs. Poonam Mrs. Priya Mr. Rahul Mrs. Rubí Mrs. Siya Mrs. Susheela Mr. Umeesh Mrs. Vishna DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND REPORT PROJECT Nodopía, Architecture and Design Juan José Pérez Moncho Víctor Lledó García Infographics: VER. Bernardo Ramirez Sanchez Bioclimatic and energy efficiency study: Abee arquitectura sostenible Text: Esteban Carafí Oliveira 41 |

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