African Design Magazine September 2016 | Page 62

Volunteers Build Fo A team of volunteers from Arup and Bechtel are spending two weeks of their sum bridge in Rwanda. The new span will provide safe, year-round access to sc care facilities for the 12 000 residents of Kukibuye. In the last year, two people w injured while walking across the logs that currently cross the Mukungwa R Rwandan village. The team of ten engineers drawn from Arup and Bechtel have Prosperity, a U.S. nonprofit that specialises in designing and building footbrid isolated rural communities. Arup and Bechtel Group Foundation contributed £ materials and labour, while individual team members carried out their own fu add