How to Build a School in Africa?! - Thank YOU!!

so I am currently in the bottom of a toilet in the middle of Africa with my buddy Dan [Music] [Applause] [Music] so do you guys remember the wedding present that the what's inside family got us when we got married when dan and Claire surprised us with two classroom full of desks for kids in Kenya along with a fundraiser with the potential to build an entire school here in Kenya and thanks to you guys we've raised over $30,000 it was successful and now it's time to see how everything comes together since all of your donations went to the school we flew out with our own money to show in real life how those donations are being used and we're just getting started [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm overwhelmed with the vote I really trust them to take me down everybody we had a lot of help getting down here early that way you're expected like like education is the most important thing and now that these kids have a place in Texas and be educated it's like you can't put a price tag on my name is Zach this is my wife cambrie wouldn't he be I can they it's our pleasure to meet all of you and thank you for making us feel so welcome so we're about to get our African name Jimenez up [Applause] your name now [Music] [Applause] yeah Sodom means a person who is ready to offer to sacrifice to help others a person who loves others and is ready to help from disability is not inability we are proud of you from coconut shell I'm now called sada so these are the classrooms they used to be using for their school inside of this kind of mud brick hut with wood pillars but as you can see it's not as solid and doesn't last quite as long as a brick building and with the rains they get there's no way anyone staying dry let alone the paper the new brick buildings are much easier to keep clean because they have a cement floor and aren't as leaky because these buildings are made of mud and soil any time it rains they're in need of repair so it's multiple repairs a year and if there's like a torrential downpour or a massive rain then the building's can just be washed away and you know be gone you can see the blackboard is still here but everything else is washed away this particular building was built in 2011 and it's been repaired every single year since then but you can tell it's still in a severe state of disrepair I'm all about fixing things and making things last forever but when you build with durable materials the things just last a lot longer so the trick here is that these blocks have to be pressed into shape right and then dried for five days until they are done drying they're pretty soft so we're gonna go take this put it back in the machine and try again looks like I suggest leave this to the experts so the blocks that make up the school are made from one part cement and six parts quarry dust and they're hydraulically pressed into a machine that extrudes the block shape and then they're set outside to dry for five days that is you know if you can set them down without them breaking they're pretty soft until they've had time to harden just like any type of cement the nice part about this machine though is that it's extremely portable and can be brought out to any type of remote village anywhere in Africa with minimal instruction the whole thing can be operated and produce enough bricks to build the entire school and the blocks are shaped in a way that allowed them to enter lock with each other so the whole building is structurally sound which we like this is much harder than it looks so it's pretty interesting how the water works at this school there's a series of white PVC pipes that are connected as a gutter underneath the ten roof that collects all the water when it rains all the water runs down the roof collects in the PVC and gets dropped in this massive tank behind me where it stores all the water and then they can use little spigots like this to pull the water out when they need it so as long as the rains keep coming the tank keeps full but if the rain stopped and the tank empties then they run out of water in that case you need a well but since it rains so often here this system is a very good idea so this is another example of one of those water collection things so this is on the gutters of the roof all of the water runs down the tin into the PVC and then comes here to this massive tank where it's you know stored for later use it works out really well because the building is just a massive collector of rain rain that would otherwise just hit the ground and not be useful to anybody but in this particular case we have to run off points that go into this giant tank and makes the rainwater much more useful for a much longer period of time and then the students can come here and collect the water for use whenever they need it works out pretty well so I am currently in the bottom of a toilet in the middle of Africa with my buddy Dan true story and right now we're constructing a girls bathroom for a school here in Kenya their other one collapsed so we're starting over and how it works is we have this massive hole in the ground we're building a block wall that kind of goes up and creates this little cavern at the bottom for toilet stuff so to construct the wall we're gonna have Dan show us how it's done all right first brick so this latrine was dug entirely by hand and it'll take probably you know another week or two to finish it off and get the toilets up top and this is basically just a huge storage tank I'll probably take with 400 students and this is for all the girls this will probably take about four years until it fills up with the solid waste liquid waste kind of seeps into the ground but then they'll bring in a truck and pump out all of the solid waste and then they can continue to use the same bathroom so yeah happy to help and it's kind of fun to actually get your hands dirty yeah and this time around we're building it with blocks so this one should last up quite a bit longer and won't collapse in the future you may or may not know that last time Zack was on a ladder it was not good he broke his wrist this one he has a lot more help so Dan was the guy who started all of this started the ball rolling and then you know made it possible for all of us to donate for these schools I mean it was crazy because I wanted to give this guy some sort of present I didn't anticipate that all of you guys with like donate money enough to build an entire school and toilets for all these girls at the school we paid for our own flights out here for all of us our hotel everything is paid for out of our money we just wanted to show you guys mostly what your dollars went to so we are sitting inside of the classroom that all of you guys helped build this whole school building is thanks to you guys and thanks to Dan and the what's inside family for kind of starting at all with what they were going to school in I don't know how anybody who focus on so giving them a foundation like this so they can study and work hard and have a future [Music] these are the same kind of solid wood desks that Dan got us for our wedding present built with screws and super-strong wood they should last for quite a while even though the money was donated from all over the world the construction and all the materials were purchased right here in Kenya using local labor local materials and local people giving an opportunity for others to learn and make something more of themselves the greatest gift you give and this particular building is going to last for a long time the foundation is super super important just like this building's foundation is cement education is the foundation for life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you donate anything from a desk to an entire school building there are so many ways you can contribute and just a few dollars can go a long way and every penny is spent here locally they're building up their community by providing the jobs to build this facility and then for the kids to come and in education all right I guess with all this we just want to say thank you for letting us share this experience with you we were able to fund an entire school here in Kenya but there is more than we can still do we passed a school that still has 60 kids to a classroom so there's still plenty of opportunity to help kids in Africa we'll keep the same link that Dan started six months ago down the video description so if you want to contribute the opportunity is still there thanks once again for contributing and thanks a ton for watching we'll see you around

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Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 22 2020