To build a school, 16 thousand bottles will be collected

In place of bricks they will use a new technique with plastic bottles for building three classrooms and a dinning room

With a new construction technique by means of which pet plastic bottles full of earth will turn into walls, the youngsters of the club Rotaract Puerto Vallarta join the initiative of the Civil Association “Now it is time to give”, building three classrooms and a dinning room into a precarious school for the community of Lomas del Valle in the delegation of Las Palmas, for which they need to gather 16 thousand pet bottles.

In conference, Adriana Alonso, president of the Civil Association “Now it is time to give”, announced that by means of the program “Adopt a community” they have been working in Lomas del Valle where there is a very rustic school that requires improvements, for this she thanked the initiative of the Rotaract group which has placed 65 baskets in all of the city to collect the bottles.

“They already have classes from the National Council of Educational Promotion (Conafe), what we want is to improve their installations so that they are better; we want that in the afternoon they serve as a community center, we have already given them workshops and courses of different self-sustainable activities”.

ACTIVE COMMUNITIES

Adriana Alonso commented that it is possible to build through recycled material but it requires the support of the community, “we want to involve them all; we do not have the means to give them the resources that they require but we can give them information and qualification so that they can make progress”.

He explained that by means of this construction technique of three classrooms and a dinning room for the school, 16 thousand bottles of pet are required, that will be filled up with earth and covered in cement to be used like walls. He also guaranteed that the construction technique is safe, that there is a history of these types of constructions in other countries and that eventually, their fitness for being a home will be supervised by Civil Protection.
About this initiative, Arturo Villalba Pérez, member of the Rotaract club, informed that the bottles that are required are of 1.5, 2 and 2.5 liters, in good condition and with tops. Also, they have declared to be ready to participate in the construction process.

“A lot of workers will be needed because the bottles are full of earth, we are committed to fill the bottles each day that the construction begins. We are in the disposition to work so that the school is in good conditions”.

In this regard, on Sunday December 1st starting at noon, a musical event has been organized in Los Arcos of the malecón where there will be musical groups of rock and salsa, dance, interaction with the children, surprises for the participants, and the announcement to take pet bottles.

THE TIP:

The required bottles are of 1.5, 2 and 2.5 liters, in good condition and with tops, there are already collection centers in the library Los Mangos and in some schools

 

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