I am an architecture student at the University of Nottingham, taking part in Project Myemyela, "Project Smile".
The project involves designing a brand new pre-school nursery building in a rural village in the Limpopo region of South Africa and then in Easter we will be going to South Africa to actually build it ourselves - my teams design was lucky enough to be chosen as the final design to be built!

I successfully fundraised my personal target for cost of materials and equipment - I am now raising money to help with the cost of the trip and medical vaccinations to allow me to go to South Africa and build the new pre-school as part of a team.

This project will make such a huge difference to the lives of these children.
This will be a unique experience for me, both the fundraising, building and travelling to South Africa will challenge me greatly on a personal level.

The project has been very successful in previous years, where the outcome is both beautifully designed and made, whilst also providing an extremely valuable resource for a village in need of the facilities. Currently the village has an existing pre-school nursery, however it is a tiny single roomed building, squeezing in over 50 children ranging from the ages of 3 months to 5 years.