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This project, sponsored by Architecture for Humanity for NextAid, a South African non-profit organization that runs several programs to engage community members of all ages in changing the problems that affect their community.

From AFH:

   YWAV teenagers use creative-enterprise to teach AIDS awareness and life development. NextAid is working with ecological architect Joseph Kennedy of Village Renaissance and a team of international volunteer designers and natural builders to design and build an earth-friendly center for these teenagers and a home for an additional 50 children orphaned by AIDS. It will be a community resource center and a beacon of hope. The projects and programs in the Dennilton center will serve as models for sustainable centers and small scale projects NextAid plans to develop throughout the continent.

Architecture for Humanity is an incredible success story. Starting with a few hundred dollars and an idea, Cameron Sinclair decided to hold a design competition in response to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. Since then AFH has grown into a model nonprofit inspiring and helping in communities around the world.

Architecture for Humanity is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need.