Expressions of Interest sought: pro bono design services for the Ligingi Community Learning Centre, Uganda

UPDATE: The deadline for EOI's has been extended until 14 December 2012 due to the silly season...we know things get a bit crazy this time of year, so thought we'd give you an extra week. Thanks to everyone who has already expressed interest - we'll review all applications after the extended date.

 

Architects for Peace, in partnership with the Ligingi Community Learning Centre (LCLC), are excited to invite Expressions of Interest for pro bono services to design a new community centre to house LCLC operations  in the village of Ligingi, Uganda.  

Views of the existing brick building on the LCLC site

The LCLC is a not-for-profit community based organisation, that aims to foster community knowledge and competencies to adapt, thrive and actively engage in a rapidly changing world. The LCLC was co-founded by Ugandan, Dennis Obel and Australian, Anna Trembath in conjunction with the Ligingi community. Dennis, a highly-experienced international development professional, is ancestrally of Ligingi village. Some of his immediate family members still live in Ligingi, and he calls all the people of Ligingi his kin and Ligingi his true home.  Anna is an experienced researcher with particular expertise in gender and development, an international development practitioner and a writer. Dennis and Anna travel regularly to Ligingi and will be the primary conduits for communication between the architect/s engaged for this project and the Ligingi community.

Ligingi is a small and beautiful village, located in eastern Uganda, around 45 kilometres from the Uganda-Kenya border. The village is primarily a subsistence farming community, in a remote location with no electricity or water and sanitation infrastructure, and very little service provision or outside organisational presence. Ligingi is home to a number of different clans who are all J’opadhola people, a Luo-speaking tribe associated with the Nilotics who migrated from Sudan in the sixteenth centry. A recent survey revealed the village population to be 2,959. 

The proposed Centre is planned to be used as the organisational premises for the LCLC, including a community space for learning, training and other programmatic activities, and accommodation for staff, volunteers and visitors.

The new premises will allow the LCLC to develop and expand the programs offered, and to better involve and inspire both Ligingi community members and international volunteers and guests. The LCLC represents a unique initiative to facilitate meaningful, community-driven change over the long term on a sustainable scale for a community whose members have limited future opportunities.

For further details on the LCLC project, please download the design brief and supporting documents here.  You can read more about Ligingi Community Learning Centre here.

Please email expressions of interest and CV detailing relevant project experience to
Katherine at probono@architectsforpeace.org by Friday 14^th December at 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).
  

The Architects For Peace pro bono policy, with important information for prospective service providers regarding the way the pro bono service works and the selection process involved, is available for download here. Please make sure you read over this document before submitting your expression of interest.

Community meeting at the Primary School, with the existing LCLC brick building behind

Expressions of Interest sought: pro bono design services for the Ligingi Community Learning Centre, Uganda

UPDATE: The deadline for EOI's has been extended until 14 December 2012 due to the silly season...we know things get a bit crazy this time of year, so thought we'd give you an extra week. Thanks to everyone who has already expressed interest - we'll review all applications after the extended date.

 

Architects for Peace, in partnership with the Ligingi Community Learning Centre (LCLC), are excited to invite Expressions of Interest for pro bono services to design a new community centre to house LCLC operations  in the village of Ligingi, Uganda.  

Views of the existing brick building on the LCLC site

The LCLC is a not-for-profit community based organisation, that aims to foster community knowledge and competencies to adapt, thrive and actively engage in a rapidly changing world. The LCLC was co-founded by Ugandan, Dennis Obel and Australian, Anna Trembath in conjunction with the Ligingi community. Dennis, a highly-experienced international development professional, is ancestrally of Ligingi village. Some of his immediate family members still live in Ligingi, and he calls all the people of Ligingi his kin and Ligingi his true home.  Anna is an experienced researcher with particular expertise in gender and development, an international development practitioner and a writer. Dennis and Anna travel regularly to Ligingi and will be the primary conduits for communication between the architect/s engaged for this project and the Ligingi community.

Ligingi is a small and beautiful village, located in eastern Uganda, around 45 kilometres from the Uganda-Kenya border. The village is primarily a subsistence farming community, in a remote location with no electricity or water and sanitation infrastructure, and very little service provision or outside organisational presence. Ligingi is home to a number of different clans who are all J’opadhola people, a Luo-speaking tribe associated with the Nilotics who migrated from Sudan in the sixteenth centry. A recent survey revealed the village population to be 2,959. 

The proposed Centre is planned to be used as the organisational premises for the LCLC, including a community space for learning, training and other programmatic activities, and accommodation for staff, volunteers and visitors.

The new premises will allow the LCLC to develop and expand the programs offered, and to better involve and inspire both Ligingi community members and international volunteers and guests. The LCLC represents a unique initiative to facilitate meaningful, community-driven change over the long term on a sustainable scale for a community whose members have limited future opportunities.

For further details on the LCLC project, please download the design brief and supporting documents here.  You can read more about Ligingi Community Learning Centre here.

Please email expressions of interest and CV detailing relevant project experience to
Katherine at probono@architectsforpeace.org by Friday 14^th December at 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).

 

The Architects For Peace pro bono policy, with important information for prospective service providers regarding the way the pro bono service works and the selection process involved, is available for download here. Please make sure you read over this document before submitting your expression of interest.

   Community meeting at the Primary School, with the existing LCLC brick building behind

   

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Ligingi Community Learning Centre – Latest Update May 2012

Land Secured!   First Maps produced!    Site Analysis!

There have been some significant developments for the Ligingi Community Learning Centre (LCLC) project through April and May.

 

LCLC Co-founder and Projects Director, Dennis Obel spent April and May in Ligingi Village consulting with the community about the LCLC project. Dennis and the team have been successful in securing land for the project, which is a very exciting development in the realization of the LCLC! The land contains an existing building.

Two volunteers, GIS specialists, Darious Kajjo and assistant South Korean Jung-Min Lee  were engaged and assisted the LCLC Committee and Village members in mapping out major sites around the village.  The information gathered and the preliminary maps that have been produced will assist those unable to visit the project site/village in gaining an understanding of the village context, while also acting as a record of the place. The village community were directly involved with the collection of the data.

Architects for Peace made contact with one of our members living and working in Uganda, Nina Hamilton. Nina is currently based at the University Martyrs as a guest lecturer and was able to meet with Dennis while he was in Uganda. Nina led a small team of students from the university to the site in Kampala to conduct a Site Analysis of the Village and the land.

This information will be helpful in gaining an understanding of the site and its context. Both the site analysis information and the mapping information will be collated to form part of the Project Brief, which is currently being drafted. 

http://www.ligingi.com/ 

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LIGINGI COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRE UGANDA

Call for Volunteer Assistance to A4P members and friends in Uganda for the Ligingi Community Learning Centre- Tororo District, Eastern Uganda

Architects for Peace are working with Ligingi Community Learning Centre (LCLC), a not-for–profit, community based organisation located in Ligingi Village, Tororo District, Uganda www.ligingi.com

We are calling on our international network of members and friends to assist the architects for peace pro-bono team, and the pro bono architect (this role has not yet been appointed) with contextual information. The project is in its preliminary stages: we are currently reviewing the project brief and an expression of interest for a pro-bono architect will go out in the next couple of weeks.

Your experience of working within the Ugandan context, and knowledge of local culture will assist us and the pro-bono architect in understanding the particular sensitivities and regulatory requirements in Uganda. Your local knowledge on specific planning and building legislation, budgetary information and other contextual/cultural issues arising from working in Uganda will be invaluable in understanding the context and designing the project.

If you are based in Uganda, or have worked in Uganda in the past and have knowledge that you would be willing to share with the architects for peace pro-bono team and the pro-bono architect, please get in touch:

probono@architectsforpeace.org

Call for Volunteer Assistance: Ligingi Community Learning Centre

Ligingi Village

Call for Volunteer Assistance to A4P members and friends in Uganda for the Ligingi Community Learning Centre- Tororo District, Eastern Uganda

Architects for Peace are working with Ligingi Community Learning Centre (LCLC), a not-for–profit, community based organisation located in Ligingi Village, Tororo District, Uganda www.ligingi.com

We are calling on our international network of members and friends to assist the architects for peace pro-bono team, and the pro bono architect (this role has not yet been appointed) with contextual information. The project is in its preliminary stages: we are currently reviewing the project brief and an expression of interest for a pro-bono architect will go out in the next couple of weeks.

Your experience of working within the Ugandan context, and knowledge of local culture will assist us and the pro-bono architect in understanding the particular sensitivities and regulatory requirements in Uganda. Your local knowledge on specific planning and building legislation, budgetary information and other contextual/cultural issues arising from working in Uganda will be invaluable in understanding the context and designing the project.

If you are based in Uganda, or have worked in Uganda in the past and have knowledge that you would be willing to share with the architects for peace pro-bono team and the pro-bono architect, please get in touch:

probono@architectsforpeace.org