Rotaract community projects Project presentation Rotaract Club Guatemala
Rotaract community projects Project presentation Rotaract Club Guatemala City January 2014
Project 1 Junkabal School
Junkabal School • • • In zone 3 of Guatemala City What do we want to do? An audiovisual hall Paint the school and create gardens Build a better warehouse Restore the sports facilities TITLE | 3
Audiovisual hall • We want to give them an audiovisual hall with a computer, dvd, speakers and a projector Here is where we want to turned into the audiovisual hall TITLE | 4
Paint and flowers • We want to paint all the classrooms and create green areas. TITLE | 5
Warehouse • Habilitate a better and central warehouse TITLE | 6
Sports facilities • Restore the sports facilities. Turned the basketball court into a sports center TITLE | 7
Costs TITLE | 8
Project Costs TITLE | 9
Project Costs • $1 = Q 7. 83 TITLE | 10
Lomas del Norte School
Lomas del Norte School • • Zone 17 of Guatemala City What do we want to do? New Kitchen Well Read Spot Ecological Path Vegetable Patch TITLE | 12
New Kitchen • The school lack of space for the kitchen. We want to build a new building for the kitchen. Old kitchen • Area for the new kitchen TITLE | 13
Well • The school has some kind of a well beside a class. The well is very damaged and creates a lot of damp. We want to enhance the piping and build a real tank. TITLE | 14
The read spot • There is a place in the school where the kids go to read and hang out. It is full of trash, damp, an old damaged fountain and stagnant water. We want to clean the spot, paint it, build new banches and restore the fountain to create a nice read spot. TITLE | 15
School Photos TITLE | 16
Ecological path • The school created an ecological path because they use a lot of trash that they found to create a bench, plant pots, a viewpoint and a musical classroom called «La ruina» - The Ruin. • We want to help with the reconstruction of «The Ruin» in order to habilitate a nice music class. We want to gave them instruments, desks and a board. We want to create a real ecological path with plants, a nice fence and finish the viewpoint. TITLE | 17
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Vegetable patch • In the school they have little crops of vegetables that are use for the meals of the students. The plant pots are basically old wheels, metal containers and a wood fence. • We want to build a real fence, put the plants in real pots and to create an efficiente system for recollenting water. TITLE | 19
Photos TITLE | 20
Costs TITLE | 21
Costs TITLE | 22
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Liter of light project
Liter of light Picture taken from www. aliteroflight. org TITLE | 25
What is it about? • Use plastic bottles to create light bulbs. TITLE | 26
How to build the light bulb? • Step 1. Prepare the galvanized metal sheet by tracing two circular patterns. • Step 2. Carefully cut the inner circle of the galvanized metal sheet with the hammer, chisel and cutter. TITLE | 27
How to build the light bulb? • Step 3. Cut and make small strips and bend it 45 degrees upward. • Step 4. Sand the bottle with sandpaper to allow glue to stick better. TITLE | 28
How to build the light bulb? • Step 5. Apply sika sealant • Step 6. Fill the bottle with water and 10 m. L bleach TITLE | 29
How to build the light bulb? • Step 7. Protect the bottle cap from sun with a protective plastic tube. TITLE | 30
How to install it? • Step 1. Use the same circular patterns to trace and cut a hole on the roof • Step 2. Carefully place the bottle in the hole and check if it is perfectly fit TITLE | 31
How to install it? • Step 3. Put glue on the perimeter of the galvanized sheet and an inch outside the hole of the roof. • Step 4. Use a powdered drill to create six small holes on the galvanized sheet. Immediately rivet the holes. TITLE | 32
How to install it? • Step 5. To prevent water leakage put a rubber sealant at the edge of the bottle galvanized steel metal sheet. Then put a metal strip above the sealant. • Step 6. Seal the bottle from the inside • All the images were take from the video how to build a solar light bulb property of Liter of Light TITLE | 33
Beneficiaries • We will work together with the organization Americans Friends Service Committee. Together we will install the liters of light in the community «El Mezquital» or Ciudad Peronia in Guatemala City. TITLE | 34
Costs TITLE | 35
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