Explore every school we’ve built across Nepal. Each one is a partnership with its community, designed around its kids and its site.
The first seven were built in reinforced concrete. From school 08 on, only earth.
Right after the 2015 earthquake, we partnered with Asian Friendship Network to get relief supplies to communities that had lost their schools. We soon moved on to designing and building six new schools with American and Nepali architects and engineers.
These first six were built with reinforced concrete. We’re proud of them and of that partnership. But we’ve since moved on to more sustainable materials, and no longer build with concrete.
The largest, and last, concrete school we built.
Our first of five schools with Acts of Kindness Collective: a nonprofit community school with 12 classrooms, a computer lab, library and canteen. It was destroyed when an ice dam burst upstream, a disaster partly driven by global warming.
Our first sustainable school, and the benchmark for every one since.
A big covered space for play and class through the monsoon. Six classrooms for grades K–5 give younger kids their own space, and rammed earth walls keep everyone warm in winter and cool in summer.
A next-generation earth school, with a roof that grows.
Hexagonal classrooms, a living green roof and rammed earth arches at the entrance. It shows what inspiring, 21st-century school design can look like.
Our first school built with earth bricks.
A retrofitted existing building paired with three new ones, around a large paved courtyard where students and neighbors gather. Earth bricks are made on site by local workers.
A school built for a safer future.
Serving more than six nearby communities, this centrally located school once relied on old, unsafe classrooms. Two new earth-brick buildings now provide five earthquake-resilient classrooms.
Built from the ground it stands on.
Hard to reach, which made earth brick the obvious choice. The bricks form patterns and buttresses that carve out small, private nooks for kids. A community-funded hostel lets kids from distant villages stay through the school week.
A school that tells a story.
Its walls are a giant canvas for a mural, celebrating the joy of learning. Designed in-house, the rammed earth building gives kids space to learn and play all year.
