Working under contract with the non-profit, Sudan Sunrise, TSC Global is building additional classrooms at the Manute Bol Primary School in Turalei, Southern Sudan. The late Manute Bol, former NBA star whose hometown is Turalei, had a dream of building 41 schools throughout Southern Sudan. Widely revered here in Southern Sudan, Manute worked tirelessly for decades in support of freedom and peacemaking in this troubled country. His dream of education for the youth of his country is being carried on by the non-profit he helped create, Sudan Sunrise.
- Manute Bol Primary School in Turalei, Southern Sudan
Steve Riley, Director, is in Sudan now making a logistics and mobilization trip for the construction beginning May 2011. The plan is for two additional classroom buildings, a new kitchen, and an outdoor pavilion serving as a cafeteria and meeting hall. The school now has six classrooms in two buildings, latrines and a solar powered water well funded by USA based company Franklin Electric (www.franklin-electric.com). The new buildings will more than double the size of the school now serving over 400 children. Classrooms are overcrowded, and there are still two grades attending school under nearby trees, so the new buildings are much needed. TSC Global will complete the project in time for the July 9, 2011 independence day celebration in Turalei that will be attended by dignitaries from the Southern Sudan government, representatives from aid agencies and the National Basketball Association.
Manute Bol primary school is a showplace for TSC Global’s unique thin shell hypar roofs. Our roofs are ideally suited to small commercial construction, such as schools, providing a low cost, durable, quiet and cool alternative to the typical iron sheet roofs used here in Africa. We will continue the use of compressed earth blocks (CEB) that were used to construct the walls for the first two classroom buildings. CEB construction is beginning to take hold here in Sudan as an environmentally friendly alternative to burnt bricks. We also have a training component to our work here. Workers will become expert in thin shell hypar roof construction and manufacture of CEBs. Our hope is to launch small businesses using both technologies for home and commercial construction.
- Classroom Under the Trees
- UNICEF Supports Schools in Southern Sudan
- Students at Manute Bol School in Turalei S. Sudan
