4 CASE STUDIES 4.3 GANDO PRIMARY SCHOOL

Conclusion

Since the community built the building on their own, they now have new skills and knowledge to use to keep improving their lives and left them with a sense of pride in the fact that they actively changed their life to the better. This case supports the author’s belief that empowering the community through education and training will help them pave their way out of poverty. Therefore, building a training centre in Ghor As-Safi with a mindset similar to Kéré’s will provide locals with temporary construction jobs and give them basic building skills that, alongside the education they will get from the training centre itself, will give them better opportunities in the competitive labour market. The case demonstrates how one can work within harsh economic constraints as well as trying to imagine ways in which a good design could help to cope with or even reverse these conditions and also conceive a way of construction that was cost efficient, easily replicable with minor technology, and capable of locality.