AFHDC project listing

Below are a listing of our active projects

test	name	description
	Amani Village	Amani Africa is establishing a community in the town of Nyamata, Rwanda, creating an environment that will allow us to fulfill our underlying mission: to promote sustainable peace in a post-conflict society by training and educating vulnerable youth. Amani Africa has recognized that a holistic approach to reconciliation is vital. Amani Village will combine human rights, education, and economic empowerment to provide opportunities to vulnerable youth. All three of these components are absolutely essential if we wish to create sustainable peace in a region devastated by decades of violence and civil war. Amani Village will consist of: vocational training school, library and resource center for human rights and peace-building, a computer laboratory, “green” guesthouse and restaurant, playgrounds and sport fields for all of our sports teams, home for street children, health clinic, primary school, secondary school
	Bethania Kid Centers	Working with REACH and Bethania Kids, there are two sites we are exploring to accommodate the housing of orphanages in southern India. The 1st site which we will be exploring is about an acre, accommodating about 45 orphanages. We are viewing this site as a smaller scaled prototype site to apply onto the 2nd site, a larger site looking to accommodate 200+ orphanges with consideration to having a "handicapped friendly" building and a day care center. Both are exciting sites and since we picked this up recently in December, we are looking for members to participate in this project. The scope of work is to design both sites to accommodate the orphanes needs, establish a form of "branding", and fundraising opportunies.
	Umueze Village Schoolhouse	Partnering with UNIFI (www.unifiinc.org), we look to design for the village of Umueze, Nigeria a safe and functional primary schoolhouse. The new building is to replace an existing schoolhouse that has become old and dilapidated, requiring a disproportionate amount of resources and maintenance. The schoolhouse is seen as the center of growth within the village. It is not only a place for children to learn, but a gathering place for the students to populate and create connections that strengthen the community as a whole.
	Donate n Shop	Working with NCCF (National Center for Children and Families - http://www.nccf-cares.org/), we are designing a Donate and Shop space that allows for donations to be channeled, organized and then placed for display for the individuals to shop as they please. The design is planned to go to a schematic level. During construction, we will be looking to see if members would be interested in helping out also.
	Shalom House	SOME (So Others Might Eat) is an interfaith, community based non profit organization that exists to help the poor and the homeless in Washington, DC. One of their Single Room Occupancy (SRO) homes called the Shalom House needs work done to their communal bathrooms, communal kitchens, and efficiency kitchens. They would also like AFH-DC's help in designing an exterior awning for their entrance, and signage that can be seen from the train line down the street.
	Minnesota Ave Outreach	AfH/DC, two Urban Design 302 studios from CUA and the Ward 7 Development Awareness Committee (DAV) have worked together in a three-week long charrette involving pedestrian intersections along Minnesota Avenue. The partnership looked to promote stronger community involvement with the development of the urban infrastructure. The charette was aimed to incite design solutions of pedestrian scale to problematic intersections along the Minnesota corridor; a collaboration fusing together citizen-based incentives with formal community development. The students worked to creating boards which graphically represented ideas and response to the issues discovered of this area. Below are the CUA Student involved to give credit for the hard work they put on this project. Blaine Road Area: David Dunbar, Roberto Colque, Hamza Ibrahim, Andrew Kracht Benning Road Area: Nazanin, Josh Cahill, Greg Cancro, Ryan Pedroty
	Vietnam Playground	Design services for a nursery school playground located in Hung Trach Commune. The project was developed to work with a small budget and develop solutions to create a safer play environment by referring US stringent safety code measures.