HP PROJECT Improvementof the Bhimphedi

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HP PROJECT for AMICS DEL NEPAL
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BHIMPHEDI CHILDREN HOME
SELECTED PROJECT FOR HP CHARITY DAY, OCTOBER 2012
PROJECT COMPLETION, SEPTEMBER 2013
PROJECT INDEX
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
3. Administrative Building Rehabilitation
4. Playground Area Conditioning
5. Garden Improvements
6. Water Tank for Garden
7. Financial Summary
8. Human Team
Architect: Mònica Sans Duran
Work Supervisor in Nepal: Daniel Roig
Accountancy in Nepal: Geeta Shrestha
HP Contact Person: Anna Gonzalvo
AN President: Sofia Massutti
HP PROJECT IMPROVEMENT BHIMPHEDI CHILDREN HOME
1A
1. New Laundry
1.1. Drying House
1.2. New Back Door Hostel A
1.3. Reused Solar Panels
2. New Pantry
8. Human Team
1B
1. NEW LAUNDRY
REASONS TO BUILD A NEW LAUNDRY
Regarding hygiene conditions in cloth washing, Children Home facilities usually present two main problems:
-No specific place for drying clothes, causing that children will scatter their clothes everywhere (as seen in pictures
above: dining room, children rooms, garden…)
-Sun & Air cloth-drying is not possible during monsoon season: when it rains they all take their clothes inside,
with very little ventilation and no direct sun. Doctors always advice direct sun-drying to kill all kinds of bacteria,
avoiding proliferation of scabies, lice and other diseases.
1C
1. NEW LAUNDRY
DESIGN ADAPTED TO LOCAL MATERIALS
Different local constructions were observed to ensure that the project would be
constructible. Here’s some interesting existing elements:
-Transparent Roof (new hospital facilities). It will be very useful for letting the sunlight inside and letting the clothes
dry easily, even when big rain is falling.
-Washing-hands Slab (children home). A wider one will be very useful for washing clothes waist-height, more
comfortably and not having to kneel on the ground.
-Garden Porch (children home). Intended for meetings, but during rainy season it is packed with drying clothes. It
hasn’t got enough space for all children’s clothes, it has no lines, no transparent roof…
-Fountain Design (children home). Built for cloth-washing on the ground. Round faucet support has been
reproduced in the new laundry porch design.
1D
1. NEW LAUNDRY
1.1. New Drying House will have following features:
-Transparent Roof. It lets the sun inside, even when it rains. This ensures better cloth-drying & disinfection.
-Washing-cloths Slab. A 60cms wide slab put along faucet-wall, so children & staff can wash clothes waistheight, not kneeling. Taps will be connected to newly reused solar panels in kitchen roof, so children will be
able to wash with hot/warm water, instead of cold water. This improves hygiene conditions.
-Surrounding Fence. Laundry porch will have a perimeter fence to ensure a protected space for laundry
activities only. Drying space has enough room for all children & staff clothes. (As in existing garden porch)
-Drying lines. These lines will be supported on a metal frame, which will be hanging from main metal trusses.
These secondary frames will have different height adjustments, depending on children’s ages.
1.2. New Back Door & Roof Reparation in Hostel A. New Door will improve Hostel ventilation and will shorten
the way to Clothes Porch. Other than that, Hostel A roof needs to be reparated due to some leaks.
1.3. Reused Solar Panels. Due to toilet cancelation, a set of solar panels and water tank will be reused on top of
the kitchen, in order to provide hot water to kitchen and clothes porch.
NEW LAUNDRY VIEWS
1E
1F
CONSTRUCTION START
March 2013
Staking foundation limits
Setting up reinforcing iron
1G
FILLING FOUNDATIONS WITH CONCRETE
April 2013
Concrete pouring
Finished foundations
1H
METAL & BRICK STRUCTURES
May 2013
Surrounding walls construction
Metal pillars setting
1I
WALL STRUCTURES
June 2013
Building surrounding walls
1J
WALL STRUCTURES
June 2013
working, come rain or come shine!
Covering walls…
1K
ROOF STRUCTURE
July 2013
Placing the iron trusses as roof support
1L
SURROUNDING PAVEMENT
July 2013
See how this area progresses…
July 2013
… and the ground pavement is already finished!
1M
1N
July 2013
… and also this other side!
1O
ROOF FINISHING
August 2013
…the glass fiber panels finally reach Bhimphedi!
After a long waiting…
1P
PIPES & ELECTRICITY
August 2013
Bulbs
Water pipes
1Q
SOLAR PANELS
August 2013
But… how did they get there?
Final placement of reused solar panels: on kitchen roof,
1R
SOLAR PANELS
August 2013
With the help of everybody,
the reused solar panels were moved…
…from one roof to another! 
1S
LAST TOUCH: THE STRINGS
August 2013
Summer volunteers help put the strings…
…at the right tension by pulling, pulling!
1T
FINISHED WORKS
September 2013
1U
USING THE NEW DRYING PLACE
September 2013
1V
USING THE NEW WASHING PLACE
September 2013
1W
…BUT SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!
September 2013
2A
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
2.1. New Kitchen Store Room
2.2. Kitchen Improvements
2.3. Dishwashing Porch
2.4. New Back Door Hostel B
8. Human Team
2B
2. NEW PANTRY
NEW STORE ROOM & RELATED INTERVENTIONS
The new pantry space has been divided into four different areas of intervention, which will contribute to a better use
of the existing spaces:
2.1. New Kitchen Store-Room. Placed in the Hostel B toilet (cancellation works will be required). This toilet is no
longer necessary, since the Toilet Module is very close. A new door will be opened on the outer wall, to access the
new room from outside, shortening the distance to the kitchen.
2.2. New Back-Door in Hostel B. This will improve Hostel ventilation and will shorten the way to the Toilet
Module.
2.3. Dish-Washing Porch. Children don’t have a place to keep their plates and to be able to wash them properly.
Now they do it in fountains, in the kitchen, etc… but it’s not working well. A new place for this is required.
2.4. Kitchen Improvements. In order to increase kitchen’s capacity, some new furniture & metal racks will be
bought (see kitchen plan), and other little improvement works will be done (fixing fire placement, fixing chimney…)
2C
STORE-ROOM & KITCHEN IMPROVEMENTS
New Rack for Store Room
August 2013
New Cupboard for Kitchen
New Kitchen Store-Room
in a separate room
New Lower Metal Rack for pots
2D
NEW BACK DOORS IN HOSTELS A & B
August 2013
Back Door at Hostel A and Hostel B
Inside views from the corridor
3A
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
3.1. New Visitors Store Room
3.2. Furniture & Metal Racks
3.3. Net Doors in library
8. Human Team
3B
3. ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING REHAB.
NEW STORE ROOM & RELATED INTEVENTIONS
The ground floor at the administrative building, used by volunteers, needs a small store-room and some metal racks for
both volunteer room & store-room. Other than that, net doors are needed in library.
3.1. New Visitor’s Store-Room. A wall has to be built, a new door and net wall to fill it up to the ceiling.
3.2. Furniture & Metal Racks. Needed in volunteer’s room, approximately one for each bed.
3.3. Net Doors in Library. Another administrative building that needs some fixing: two new net doors are extremely
necessary to keep mosquitoes away. Sometimes activities cannot be held correctly, due to many mosquitoes.
3C
ATTIC STORE ROOM CLEANING
August 2013
All these useless objects
were kept at the attic
Volunteers emptying the attic
Currently, there is no room for grains to be dried, so they lay on the corridor floor…
3D
ATTIC STORE ROOM GROUND EMPTYING
August 2013
This is how the attic looked while being emptied: a thick layer
of earth & stones (traditional paving) was on the ground,
which made it very difficult for cleaning and maintenance.
Emptying works
3E
ATTIC STORE ROOM GROUND EMPTYING
August 2013
After 3 days of intense work, here’s all the
stones and earth the workers took out.
Incredible! All this weight was supported by
a wooden roof…
3F
ATTIC STORE ROOM GROUND EMPTY
August 2013
And this is how the previously covered wooden pavement looked!
3G
ATTIC STORE ROOM FINISHED
August 2013
Finally, ground covered with plaster makes it more practical,
useful and easy to clean. It has been a great improvement!
Metal strings to hang corn
& other grains for drying
4&5A
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
4.1. Playground Leveling
4.2. Fence for Henhouse
4.3. Former Piggery Rehabilitation
5.1. Bamboo planting
5.2. Fruit Tree planting
5.3. Ox hiring (for lot #5)
8. Human Team
4&5 B
4. PLAYGROUND AREA CONDITIONING
In order to protect the playground, there are some works to be done:
4.1. Playground Leveling. A bit of leveling will be enough, no hard pavement is required. On the other hand, to
protect this playground from animals, we must do:
4.2. Fence for Henhouse. A wall has to be built up to 80-90cms height, and on top of this wall a net closure has to
be put, in order to prevent hens from going to the playground/kitchen garden.
4.3. Former Piggery Rehabilitation. This piggery can be used as a small henhouse. Hens can provide the
children with fresh eggs and children can take care of hens.
5. GARDEN IMPROVEMENTS
The kitchen garden needs these three urgent interventions in order to be working 100%:
5.1. Bamboo Planting. In the area indicated on map. It would be very useful for tomatoes, for building little greenhouses, etc…
5.2. Fruit Tree Planting. Some new species should be planted, specially avocado, in order to improve and vary
their daily diet.
5.3. Ox Hiring For Lot #5. This new area has to be cultivated, but it is impossible to clean it up and prepare the
land by hand. So, a couple of oxes are required to come to the kitchen garden and start their work.
4&5C
SEPTIC TANK REPARATION
August 2013
Some problems had been going on for years, so it was
important to do something about it eventually.
So, they started digging, looking for the causes…
4&5D
August 2013
After some digging,
they finally find one of the jams
4&5E
August 2013
Oops! A drain pipe at a right
angle is not correctly installed…
we have to fix it!
There you go: now it’s fixed
and it’s totally straight:
it drains much better! 
4&5F
August 2013
After some days of digging, we finally finished all the
reparations; now, only the pavement is left
4&5F
GARDEN IMPROVEMENTS
July - August 2013
Children planting different kinds of fruit trees
4&5F
GARDEN IMPROVEMENTS
July - August 2013
Farmer leading two oxes, working
in the new area of the garden
6A
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
6.1. Plumbing System Reparation
6.2. Ground Tank Bomb renewal
6.3. Roof Tank Bomb Fixing
8. Human Team
6B
6. WATER TANK FOR GARDEN
6.1. Plumbing System Reparation. Not working properly now, it needs to be fixed urgently.
6.2. Ground-Tank Bomb Renewal. The water tank was done but the bomb has never worked. To be renewed.
6.3. Roof-Tank Bomb Fixing. Fixing not-functioning ones and investigate why they don’t work properly. After two
consecutive summers, the problem hasn’t been solved yet. So, a plumbing specialist should be hired.
6C
WATER PUMP & WATER TANK REPARATION
August 2013
The previously done water tank was not working correctly: due to lack of
overflow system, there was water coming inside the pump space, which was
causing damages very often. We decided to build an overflow system (not
seen) and a new cover for pump space (above right).
6D
PLUMBING SYSTEM REPARATION
August 2013
All the pipes in the compound that were not working,
were fixed or replaced.
7A
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
8. Human Team
7B
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
October 2013
Some minor concepts on the initial budget
have changed, due to more urgent needs.
This happens very often, once on the site.
On the other hand, HP eventually granted us
more money than we were expecting, so we
could divert some of the Rotary Club grant
into a community project for the village.
So, thanks to HP efforts and its staff, not
only we achieved to do our improvements,
but we also achieved to finish a water
purification project in the village, thanks to
both Rotary Club and UPC University
students collaboration.
8A
1. New Laundry
2. New Pantry
8. Human Team
8B
HUMAN TEAM
2012 - 2013
Hem Adikhari & Bijay Lama
Assistant & Local Constructor
Meeting with local villagers, to inform
and discuss about the project.
The new laundry and drying house has
aroused much interest among the
village people.
Askok Joshi, on the right.
Metal Structure Constructor
8B
HUMAN TEAM
2012 - 2013
Anna Gonzalvo
Amics del Nepal supporter and HP
worker, who offered the opportunity to
raise the money in HP’s Charity Day.
Geeta Shrestha & Mohan Tiwari
Amics del Nepal staff in Kathmandu
office, great persons and best
professionals.
Mònica Sans & Dani Roig
Volunteers for Amics del Nepal who
have collaborated intensely during the
completion of this project, first in
Barcelona, later in Nepal.
Sofia Massutti, as Amics del Nepal
Chairwoman during the construction
process and Ramon Viladomat, as
Chairman during the project process.
HP PROJECT for AMICS DEL NEPAL
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BHIMPHEDI CHILDREN HOME

HP PROJECT Improvementof the Bhimphedi

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