Bottle Schools

Bottle schools are schools built using soda bottles and other “waste” plastic. Entire communities come together to build bottle schools, empowering themselves to create change in their lives. Community leaders manage the project, mothers and father donate their labor to build the school, and children are involved at all stages. They collect the bottles and stuff them full of trash to make eco-bricks, which are stacked on top of each other, sandwiched in between a ferro-cement shell, to form the school’s walls. In this way, THEY build THEIR school.