Building Ecobrick furniture
I have always admired the work done by Endangered Wildlife Trust and when I saw the work they were doing with Ecobricks in the Hammanskraal Community, I immediately thought about using Ecobricks in my Springbok Scout Community Project to continue some of this work. I wanted to encourage my Troop to continue filling Ecobricks so that we may be able to start another project with them e.g. a bench or two at another Scout Hall that does not have such nice facilities as our Scout Hall.
The objective of the community project was for 8th Pretoria St Albans Scout Troop to partner with St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) and Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) to build furniture for Itireleng and Lefofa Primary Schools in Hammanskraal outside of Pretoria.
40 mini ottoman-style seats were made to be used in classrooms for Itireleng and Lefofa Primary Schools (20 each). Each mini ottoman required 7 Ecobricks.
The beneficiaries of the project wer:
(1) Itireleng Primary School, a public primary school situated at 2474 Babelegi Road, Temba, Hammanskraal. The school has approximately 814 learners served by 18 teachers, with a student teacher ratio of 46:1
(2) Lefofa Primary School, a public primary school situated at 1822 Fhulufhelo Road, Temba, Hammanskraal. The school has approximately 896 learners served by 22 teachers, with a student teacher ratio of 41:1
This really was a great project to work on. Not only did two primary schools benefit from the mini ottoman chairs we made, but the environment also benefitted as we removed approximately 185kg of plastic from the environment that would otherwise just have ended up in rubbish dumps. The fact that most of the materials for the ottoman chairs (other than the material for the slip covers) was made from recycled materials shows that you can reuse anything and give it another purpose.
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