AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
No Poverty
KEYWORDS
water, soccer, sustainable living
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
PITCHAFRICA
WEBSITE
http://pitch-africa.org
PITCHAFRICA PROJECT
A project combining the love of soccer with sustainable design and rainwater harvesting.
PITCHAfrica is a project that uses the catalyst of soccer to develop innovative low-cost sustainable community based rainwater harvesting infrastructures in Africa. The group recently established a rain harvesting school campus, that also includes a 1,500-seat football stadium in Kenya’s central highlands. The ‘waterbank’ project, conceived and designed by the non-profit design group, comprises of four distinctive structures that store high volumes of potable water at a low cost. The building harvests water (1-2 million liters a year), produces energy, irrigates crops, and actively cultivates local entrepreneurship and industry.