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.
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| 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 14th 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.
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| Community meeting at the Primary School, with the existing LCLC brick building behind |
