A lot has happened in the last few months – from disasters to great successes. In this blogpost we will report about many small projects. At the beginning of June we received the terrible news that a fire broke out in the slum in Kibera due to a power failure. […]
In our latest blogpost “Construction phase 2: The construction of the upper floor of the Oloo’s Children Centre” we reported about the completion of the two floors as well as the roof in September 2020. Despite the adverse circumstances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, due to which our architect Oliver […]
The construction of the second floor of Oloo’s Children Centre has reached its last steps. In our blog post “Construction Phase 1: The construction of the first floor of Oloo`s Children Centre” we have already outlined the process of building the first floor. The construction of the upper floor also […]
Construction phase 1: The construction of the ground floor of Oloo’s Children Centre The construction of the new Oloo’s Children Centre has been in progress since May 2020. Growing numbers of students, great heat and hygienic problems of the previous school led the slum dwellers to approach us from Start […]
One of our most important projects is the Start Somewhere concrete hollow block, which was developed by Oliver von Malm with the help of PERI and the University of Innsbruck. The locally produced blocks provide the basis for our school building in Kibera and in the future, should also give […]
How exactly did Start Somewhere start and develop into the organization we know today? In this post, Oliver von Malm gives insight into our past and explains why we are building a school in Kibera. It is 2011 and the young architecture student Oliver von Malm is backpacking through Kenya […]
