Maggie's Dream... accomplished!

 

As you all know from previous postings both on Facebook and on this blog since March last year, I have been following the dream which Maggie Grout initiated about 7 years ago.

Maggie's dream to provide low cost education infrastructure to people in third world countries burdened with non-existent budgets, very poor natural resources or facilites led her to establish the "Thinking Huts" project. In the time which has passed since 15 year old Maggie set up her NGO (?) she has gathered together a very competent team of supporters and now they have completed Stage 1...  this is a proptotype building in Madagascar, a "printed" concrete building!

Yesterday I received this brief email from Maggie after the opening of her dream building in Madagascar.


Hello Thinking Huts Family! 

April 14, 2022. 

We did it! Truly a miracle. 7 years bringing everyone together to achieve this large vision.  

I will be forever grateful for our dedicated and selfless volunteers, our architects Defining Humanity and local construction team.

This is a journey formed by the incredible people, serendipitous paths crossed, that came together to unconditionally support and believe in not just me but a vision much greater to profoundly impact the world — in the pursuit of bridging the gap between poverty and opportunity through education.
Now let’s raise the funds to continue ðŸ’«

Thank you for believing in us!

Maggie


What Maggie didn't say in her thank you email is that they started forming the slab for this building just a few months ago, and they only began "printing" it on the slab about one month ago. The following images show the printer had reached the site about March 14th.






In these images sent by Maggie yesterday you see the brand new building at its opening ceremony. It was printed onto the slab, topped with a roof, then windows and doors were added, all in just one month!











And here's a shot of Maggie with some members 
of the team which achieved this dream!






BUT THIS IS ONLY STAGE ONE


For any of our firends interested in following Maggie's plans for the future:

https://www.thinkinghuts.org/


PT


Comments

  1. DJKApril 20, 2022 at 10:39 PM

    Amazing! We need something like this to help solve the housing crisis in Australia. But - ooops - I forgot, there is no housing crisis, only already-wealthy people getting wealthier.

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