2024 at Green Building
från 439€
Green Building Supporter
Höjdpunkter
- Learn from expert green building instructors
- Progressive focus each week: earthen materials, structure design, water systems, and electricity/power
- Build a school in rural Guatemala and be immersed in Kachikel culture
- Go on weekend trips to Antigua, Lake Atitlan, Maya Ruins, Surfing at the beach, or on volcano hikes to see eruptions
- Learn how to build your own home start to finish
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Om programmet
Intensive learning for those who wish to dive into green-building and design topics with expert instructors. There will be classroom sessions and hands on building.
In 2005 we started building. First a park area, then some classrooms, now a school teaching students through creative education, in a campus build out of trash and natural materials. At the school, we teach not only standard curriculum but include education for sustainable development. At the school ...
Typisk dag
Days will include both classroom and hands on practical learning covering all aspects relevant to building sustainably and living eco-friendly by design.
- We will learn about cob and measuring ratios of different earth and natural materials as long as when and how to use them. Plus put our hands in ...
Fritidsaktiviteter
In the evenings volunteers normally unwind, take visits to town to explore local galeries (Comalapa is an area know for its paintings since Maya times), see the local market, or relax at the volunteer house to see the sunset over volcanoes and play some board games. There are often events going on ...
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The Green Building Academy last 4 weeks and is available twice a year, in April and November. We welcome you to join for one to four weeks. If you have a specific area of green building you want to learn about from earthen materials to structure design to water systems or power systems please let us know, we can advise what week(s) are best tom come. In the below video, you can hear from local team member Roberto about one of the past projects we completed, a house for his family. This year we'll be building a school, modeled after our flagship Hero School, for a neighboring village.
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Long Way Home
Non-profit - grundades 2004
Verifierad av Volunteer World
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