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Annual Activity Report 2023

Annual Activity Report 2023

We closed the 2023 fiscal year with great excitement and two major projects underway. You will discover them in this Current Report.

As many of you know, Foundawtion is a small non-profit foundation:

  • The Board of Trustees is composed of eight friends who came together nine years ago to altruistically contribute their time, knowledge, and professional experience.
  • We are surrounded by magnificent volunteers; architects, quantity surveyors, and economists, who generously offer their expertise and free time to advance the projects with admirable constant supervision.
  • We add to this fantastic “human cocktail” volunteers who selflessly travel to oversee construction in Senegal and Namibia.

We want to emphasize that we only allocate human resources to the projects, not to the management of the Foundation. Specifically, two architects dedicate their workday to designing and monitoring the projects.

This is how we operate. It’s important to understand the inner workings of foundations to ensure greater transparency in the management of the resources we receive from our donors. We want nearly all of your contributions to go directly to funding the projects, not to covering the operational expenses of the foundation. The day we can’t maintain this rigor, we will need to reconsider our future.

As of now, thanks to all of you, Foundawtion is sailing smoothly and full speed ahead, without official aid, thanks to the generosity of our “captain” Teknia and an unparalleled crew. We expect a good journey this year as well.

Warm regards,

David García
President

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Basket workshop at CEM Kamanar

The objective of this workshop was to promote sports in general and basketball in particular among the boys and girls of Cem Kamanar in Thionk Essyl. Learn basic concepts of basketball such as dribbling, passing, shooting a basket, making a tackle, hand changes, one on one… as well as understanding some basic rules and positively developing the educational values ​​of this sport. The camp was held successfully, and the boys and girls improved day after day, applying the concepts shown by the volunteers Without a doubt, a great experience for everyone.

Dani Osul, head of the workshop.

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CEM Kamanar winner of the Aga Khan Architecture Award 2022

We are very proud to announce that our CEM Kamanar school has received one of the most prestigious and well-endowed international architecture awards: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in the 2020-2022 cycle.

A recognition of the work of dawoffice and of all the workers, collaborators, private donors and companies and volunteers of Foundawtion, as well as, of course, the community of Thionck Essyl, indispensable collaborator.

As you know, CEM Kamanar is a secondary school for 480 students that opened in October 2019. It was designed to solve the saturation of the only school that existed in the rural town of Thionck Essyl, in the Ziguinchor region, south of Senegal.

The jury for this award, which will be presented on Saturday, October 29th in Muscat, in the sultanate of Oman, has awarded CEM Kamanar architecture among more than 463 projects from around the world for “addressing the multiple scales of urbanism, landscape, architecture and construction technologies with equal commitment and virtuosity”.

In the words of David García, founding architect of dawoffice and head of the project, it is “a unique project for the community of Thionck Essyl, which highlights the traditional construction with a result adapted to the climatic characteristics of the area, integrated into the landscape and that uses basic but effective solutions.” The school is built using local materials, such as compressed clay on site, to form an original geometry of vaults.

This prestigious award is promoted by The Aga Khan Development Network, dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, mainly in Asia and Africa, through a multifaceted approach to help communities become self-sufficient. The ultimate goal of these awards is to encourage architectural projects that address social aspirations and to have a comprehensive archive of referent projects – archnet.org.

In addition to the recent Aga Khan Award, the work was a finalist in the 2022 International FAD awards granted by the ArquinFAD association -Promotion of Arts and Design (FAD)- and deserved the opinion award.

From Foundawtion we want to congratulate the dawoffice team for their amazing work.

Thanks also to the invaluable support of our generous patron TEKNIA, essential for the construction of our projects.

Thanks to the Echebano Foundation and all the anonymous and altruistic donors of the Foundation, we can continue working, to the best of our ability, to have a better future.

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CEM Kamanar, International FAD Award 2022 finalist

CEM Kamanar Secondary School in Senegal is one of the finalist projects at International FAD Awards 2022.

dawoffice project has been chosen because of its “sensitivity to local culture and available resources. It also takes into account the structure of the whole, permeable and integrated into the landscape, and the adaptation to climatic characteristics from the construction section, both basic and effective, with a project that stands out for the permeability of the spaces, the relationship with the exterior, and the formation of comfort zones from the ventilation and the form “, in words of the jury.

Pictures: Claudia Mauriño.

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Foundawtion at Dakar Biennale

Foundawtion is somehow present in the Dakar Biennale off, thanks to this installation by industrial designer Marc Morro. The installation revolves around the furniture collection created exclusively for CEM KAMANAR, a school in Thionck Essyl built by the foundation.

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Namaqua Kalahari Children’s Home

We want to build a building so that 50 boys and girls have a home where they can eat, sleep, play and study, away from the mistreatment, humiliation and even rape to which they are habitually subjected.

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CEM School Kamanar

The CEM Kamanar project began in Barcelona in 2014, when David García and Aina Tugores, architects from the dawoffice studio, met with the authorities of Thionck Essyl and made the decision to build a new secondary school. The aim was to solve the overcrowding in the only secondary school existing in Thionck Essyl at that time.