Community School Library

The dry season in Northern Ghana is long. After the last harvest in October, the rains stop until the end of May or June. This leaves seven months waiting to plant crops again but also a time for building with adobe.  In December of 2016, a French nonprofit, Nubian Vault Association (NVA) partnered with local village nonprofit, Peal Deng, to begin construction of a school library.

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Daniel Bangrey then organized church members and the local villages to volunteer their labor to make this key building a reality.

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The land has been donated by the land chief for a community school in early 2016, but the community lacked funds to begin any construction.  NVA came in to teach local masons the traditional technique of adobe vault construction, used for centuries in the Sahelian regions of West Africa.

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This building technique allows for sustainable, geographically compatible, low tech construction with materials from the earth, mud. 

Link to Nubian Vault website

What is needed now to complete the library is: tile flooring, electricity (for lights and a fan), paint for walls, book shelves, study tables and benches, louver windows and a metal door.

​Gwen Evans, the Peace Corps Volunteer in the community has just received 1200 textbooks from Rotary Club. They are in boxes awaiting the completion of the library.

​Stay tuned for updates as to funds needed to help the Talensi people complete their library.