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Help flood victims with sandbag houses in Malawi
A project from Support Malawi Heidelberg e.V. in Rumphi, Malawi
Sandbag house for flood victims in Malawi, Africa. Used anywhere in the world to build houses. Simple, low-cost construction: plastic bags are filled with earth, sewn up and layered together to walls. Donations help young people to their earnings.
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H. Wegener from Support Malawi Heidelberg e.V. is responsible for this project
This is new: young people building a sandbag house. In Malawi, Southeast Africa, houses in the countryside are usually built by first choosing a good sites, then mud bricks are formed and stacked, and baked for 24 hours. A lot of wood is needed to burn the bricks, and a lot of expensive cement to construct the walls of these houses, so my interest was aroused immediately, three years ago, when I heard about an alternative design. A house made of sandbags? Yes, on second thought it is obvious: stacked sandbags are very stable, they are always used to construct dikes. And sandbags have been being used all over the world, for many years, to build houses. The principle is very simple: new or used plastic bags are filled with sand, sewn up and stacked together to form walls. The layers are held together by barbed wired, to prevent them shifting. Space is left for the door and windows. The roof is added, and the house is ready.
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