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Poor education and lack of school and space for education is one of the fundamental problems of afghan children to learn and continue education. There are thousands of boys and girls keen to learn education and attend the school, but schools are not available everywhere. There are many children still study under tent and sunshine that cause to health problem, diseases and eventually disappoint the children and their parent from education.

RSDO with the cooperation of NICCO and financial support of Japan Platform constructed 3 primary schools and equipped. The project started in March and ended in Sep 2011. By doing so we hope we could contributed in improving afghan children to education.

RSDO’s construction section engineers are responsible for coordinating inspections to verify that construction installation activities meet the requirements of partnership requirements; i.e., blueprints, specifications, shop drawings, etc. Installations shall be inspected by construction section engineers in
accordance with quality control procedures.

Installations which do not confirm to the requirements shall be documented on a Non-Conformance Report and shall be issued by an engineer for such conditions.

A Quality Control Staff Meeting shall be held to discuss nonconforming items and/or inspection related issues. During these meetings a course of action shall be determined, tasks assigned to specific person(s) and a timetable set for accomplishing the tasks.

The following information describes our experiences in different component of school  construction project such as: construction of main building, toilet, sceptic tank, boundary wall, deep well, school equipment and field arrangement:

RSDO constructed and equipped 3 schools as following in 2011.

  • Six-classroom school in Imamshishnoor, Injil district
  • Six-classroom school in Ishaq Solaiman, Injil district
  • Six-classroom school in Shabash, Ghorian district

RSDO repaired and equipped the following 4 schools during 2011:

  • Shahid Afzali high school in district #9
  • Safiee high school in #7
  • Novin Sufla high school in Injil district
  • Robt Sangi high schools

RSDO constructed and equipped the following 6 schools during 2012:

  • 12 classroom school in Safidrawan village of Injil district.
  • 12 classroom school in Malan village, Guzar district.
  • 12 classroom school in Shahrak Mojaheddin in the center of Herat
  • 8 classroom school in Mahale Arabha  in the center of Herat.
  • 8 classroom school in Haji Abdul Rahman Village of Karokh district.
  • 8 classroom school Toneyan village of Pashtoon Zarghoon district.

RSDO’s future school construction projects in 2013 are the followings

  • 8 classroom school in Mladan village of Injil district.
  • 8 classroom school in Jayah village of Injil district.
  • 8 classroom school in Sernan village of Gozarah  district
  • 8 classroom school in Khalifati village of Robat Sangi  district
  • 12 classroom school in Akhwan district 7th of Herat city.
  • 10 classroom school in Dara Qazi of Ghoor province.
  • 8 classroom school with the financial support of UNHCR in Shagofan village of Injil District.

In each school, we construct the following components.

 

  • Mail building:
    Main building for each school is constructed according to Ministry or education approved drawings. We constructed two types of schools: 8 classrooms and 12 classroom schools. All of the classrooms were equipped with desks and chairs for both students and teachers and as well the office equipment.

  • Toilets:
    The toilets are constructed in the hygienic mode. These toilets are divided in two parts, one part has 6 toilet cells for the student with disability equipped with Ceramic sink, water tap for hand washing and the other part has 2 toilet cells for teachers that has one janitor room for storing of brooms and bucket and etc.  There is one sink for washing of hands. The sanitation system of these toilets is connected to the septic tank.

  • Septic Tank:
    The septic tank was constructed with stone masonry walls and RCC roof slab. Inside of the septic tank is insulated by Iso Gam. By insulation of the septic tank, it would not have any influence for the underground water.

  • Water well:
    In each school a water well was dug. The depth of each well is designed according to water level, and these wells are activated with electrical submersible pump and hand pump. Electrical pumps direct water to water reservoir installed on the roofs of the toilets and as well to field arrangement area separately. The toilets water comes through the reservoir and for field arrangement water flow directly to the field arrangement area. The hand pump is installed as a backup that if electrical pumps don’t work or get damaged or electricity gets fluctuated the backup pump will be used.

  • Field arrangement:
    Field arrangement in schools is intended for the planting of trees, flower bushes and plating of grass in green area in some parts of the school yard, and also PCC of sidewalk from the school entrance gate to the main building door and latrine with gravel paving of the school yard is also included in this part.

  • Boundary wall:
    All of the schools which we constructed are surrounded by boundary walls according to the Ministry of Education approved drawings.