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Bringing together Africa's greatest passion with its greatest need: Football + Water = Life

PITCHAfrica is a US based not-for-profit organization that provides innovative Sport-led, Community-Integrated Rainwater Harvesting infrastructures and programs for areas of Africa where lack of access to water is a major cause of poverty. Working in partnership with NGO’s and community organizations, PITCHAfrica provides essential infrastructure and training to enable communities to integrate spo

rt led sustainable development initiatives and move towards resource self-sufficiency. A centerpiece of the PITCHAfrica initiative is a Street Football (Soccer) Stadium that integrates a one million liter water reservoir with a one thousand seat ‘Street Football’ stadium. It’s unique structure houses six classrooms for education or microenterprise initiatives, a health clinic, public latrines, and expansive opportunities for agricultural development, supporting the need for food security. PITCHAfrica has developed smaller community and family rainwater harvesting systems of varying capacities and costs to make rainwater harvesting widely available in communities.

04/10/2018

Our 'Watershed _ Havza: Bir Su Hikayesi' show in Istanbul will open on November 1st - more detail soon - meanwhile the scope is changing and will now include an outdoor installation of rain-catching surfaces and storage vessels. The schematic organisation of the exhibition looks like this - outdoor cluster on the left, indoor installation of 'rainchutes', models and campaign posters, photographs and collateral information, on the right, with projected video and flat-screen displays.

22/09/2018

Our 'WATERSHED' show in Istanbul, will open on October 31st - more information soon.

image: 'Mother - Tree' studies for a door, Katapei, Ghana 2018 (designed 12/ 2014, revised 09/2018 - for a 'rain-forest village' community centre project with the University of Ulster & CSIR_IIR, Accra)

06/09/2018

In preparation for our WATERSHED exhibition in Istanbul, in late October - early November - we are documenting and packaging a collection of 'things' - including the 'hack-saw' used for cutting reinforcement bar on the Uasonyiro Primary School construction site, in Laikipia, near Nanyuki, Kenya

05/09/2018

Work in progress, today, on the layout for an exhibition in Istanbul, in late October - early November. More detail soon.

key to drawing:

1_CSIR_relief model
2_Uasonyiro hack-saw
3_School desk + books
4_Poles, bag + water-can
5_Video screen - 'Harambee' loop
6_White rainchute (vertical)
7_Endana / Design Museum models
8_Video monitor - 'Waterbanks' introduction
9_Painted rainchute (horizontal)

28/08/2018

Sometimes progress is slow, but rewarding - 1:50 block model of a small laboratory for a water treatment test-site in Accra, Ghana, in collaboration with the CSIR_IIR, Ghana and the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 08/28_2018

28/06/2018

Earlier this year our Design Director, David Turnbull spent time at the University of Ulster's Belfast School of Art, with Michael Moore, a brilliant ceramicist, exploring alternative clay types and additives in the CWF fabrication process.

We are looking forward to discussing new developments and ongoing work in Accra, Ghana, next week, in London.

15/05/2018

Very small (2m wide) 'simple technology' lab for Accra - work in progress : painted steel facade with ventilation holes, air-flow testing for latrine project - one of many alternative arrangements with intakes in soffit... in preparation for a teleconference on Friday 05/18_2018

22/03/2018

Work in progress, 03/21_2018: investigating strategies for low cost cistern arrays using in-situ or precast concrete cylinders, 2m deep (max)...4.5 - 6m in diameter. Clustering patterns to be derived from site conditions, proximity to existing buildings, trees, pathways etc.

17/03/2018

In preparation for a trip to Accra and Kumasi - thinking about circles.

16/03/2018

On Monday 12th March, PITCHAfrica's Design Director, David Turnbull gave a lecture on 'WATERBANKS - Architecture at the nexus of Water and Power' at the University of Limerick. The discussion returned many times to the design of the dormitory for girls, girls education, the importance of night-time toilets and washing facilities, and the design of a setting in which teenage girls can feel safe, cared for and will be encouraged to stay at school.

photograph: a model of the WATERBANK - dormitory for girls, work in progress, October 2015, in the CASS workshop, London Metropolitan University, London, UK

09/03/2018

PITCHAfrica's Design Director, David Turnbull, has been visiting the University of Ulster, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On Wednesday March 7th, he spoke about Work in Progress: 'Architecture at the nexus of Water & Power', and on Thursday & Friday, March 8th - 9th, participated in a workshop refining goals, expectations and strategies for a new project in Ghana - in collaboration with Ulster University and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Accra.

photograph: reading a cautionary tale 'The Golden Egg' during 'Work in Progress' at 'Ormeau Baths', Belfast, sponsored by ARC-Ex, Ormeau Baths and the University of Ulster.

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