Swawou Girls School / Orkidstudio

In February 2014, Orkidstudio broke ground on a new girls’ school in Kenema, in the eastern region of the country, employing as many as seventy men and women from the local community each day. The Swawou Foundation sought to provide extensive new learning facilities for up to 120 young girls from the local area. First set up in 2009 by Ahmed Jaward and Kirsty Wood, it was the only school around...

St Jerome’s Children's Centre / Orkid Studio

Built with a diverse group from a small Kikuyu community in the rapidly developing agricultural outskirts of Nakuru, Kenya, we have recently completed a new home which will house local disadvantaged and abandoned children. Challenging the typology of the typical African orphanage where children sleep en mass in large dormitories, the new home limits each room to just four children providing amp...

Mutende II/ Orkidstudio

Orkidstudio having previously constructed a chicken shed for Mutende Children’s Village in 2012, sought to engage in the putting up of the Mutendes’s Harold Mwenge Memory Academy. The design firm called for volunteers and ultimately ten student architects were selected to design and build a 350 square meter facility within a timeline of just seven weeks and a limited budget of only £100 per eve...

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