La Voûte Nubienne

Climate Solidarity Co2ntribution

Chloé Adloff — 2022-11-10T10:34:04Z

Access to the Solidarity Climate CO₂ntribution website:

The Solidarity Climate CO₂ntribution in short

Do you want to contribute to carbon neutrality?
We offer you "Solidarity Climate CO₂ntribution": a double impact contribution that allows you to both offset your carbon emissions while supporting the adaptation of Sahelian populations to changes climate change and strengthening local economies.

Institutional Actors

Chloé Adloff — 2018-05-25T09:21:09Z

Policy makers, housing issues are at the heart of the challenges for development in your territories. The Nubian Vault concept is a sustainable and adapted approach for an eco-responsible transformation of the African housing stock.

Integrate the Nubian Vault in your development plans

To meet the needs for housing of populations and the objectives of contemporary development plans, it is critical that the entire building sector be progressively adapted to today's economic, social and environmental stakes.

This sectoral policy must be translated into the emergence of an “adapted housing” sector, backed by the relevant institutional stakeholders.

See the document Implementation of an adapted housing strategy in Burkina Faso's public policies (french only) and its reading notes.

Commission Nubian Vault public and community buildings

Health Centre in Sobel Diam-Diam (Senegal)

The Nubian Vault concept meets the specific needs of public and community buildings, with added sustainability and durability assets:

Improving the living standards of your citizens, with comfortable facilities adapted to all uses
Environmental protection, through low-carbon building and no use of wood, enabling mitigation and adaptation to climate changes
Exemplary buildings of keen interest to funders and partners and of added value for subsidies or grants
Boosting local economies by job creation, promotion of local know-how and the use of non-imported materials.

Contact now our local teams to define your project together!

Other contributors

Chloé Adloff — 2018-05-25T09:20:49Z

Vocational Training Centres

AVN's programme seeks to integrate professional training to the Nubian Vault technical concept in Vocational Training Centres, in order to develop the NV masonry profession and increase the response to local building needs.

You wish to integrate Nubian Vault curricula to your training offer? Contact us to design a collaboration.

Example: A Nubian Vault curriculum at the Tominian Vocational Training Centre

Microfinance Institutions

AVN has launched a new product, the Nubian Vault Housing Microloan, in two pilot projects. They offer to clients a means for facilitated access to Nubian Vault construction.

Two partner microfinance institutions, Association for the Promotion of Inclusive Finance in Burkina (APFI-B) and Credit and Savings Baoré Tradition Union/NAAM (UBTEC), thus offer the NV Housing Microloan since 2016 in Burkina Faso.

You are a microfinance organization established in one of our areas of action and you wish to offer NV Housing Microlans to your clients?
Contact us now!

Businesses & Foundations

Chloé Adloff — 2018-05-25T09:09:02Z

Businesses and foundations, offer financial and human support to the establishment and growth of the Nubian Vault programme.

Financial Support to the Programme

Support AVN's programme and its integrated strategy in one or several country(ies) and for one or more field(s) of activity: training, awareness, incentives, microfinance, etc.

A long-term commitment by our partners sustain our activities and allows for the essential growth of the programme.

They support AVN's programme

Skills Sponsorship

Your business' skills can contribute to AVN's programme and its development.

Communication and Outreach

Production of promotional/topical videos
Infographics
Printing outreach materials

Technical Expertise

Technical and/or quality studies on the NV concept
Production of technical drawings

Piloting

Production of monitoring and statistical analysis tools

Equipment Donation

Improve our staff's working conditions by the gift of equipment:

IT: laptops, smartphones, printers, other devices, etc.
Photography material: photo and video cameras, tripods, etc.
Office equipment and supplies

Profit-Sharing

Create a profit-sharing for AVN! Contact us to set up together a collaboration.

NGOs & Associations

Chloé Adloff — 2018-05-25T09:01:10Z

NGOs, associations, you have development programmes in Africa? For you and your beneficiaries, let's offer together the Nubian Vault and multiply your impacts towards local communities!

Implementing the programme in your area of action

AVN proposes to initiate a Nubian Vault market in the areas where you work. You support the deployment of the market initiation strategy in a pilot village, zone or region.

Example: AKNGS in Burkina Faso

Since 2014, AVN collaborative work with the farmer's association AKNGS in the Yako area (Burkina Faso) demonstrates what an exemplary partnership can be.

Very active, building its own capacities for fundraising, this organization leads autonomously its activities: project owner, awareness-raising, market support, NV housing microloan promotion with the microfinance institution UBTEC, support to masons in its area. Since 2017 AKNGS works with AVN to replicate this model to 13 other Naam unions.

Constructing Community Buildings

Use the Nubian Vault method for the buildings you need for your projects (education, health, agriculture, cattle-farming, etc.). Provide better living and working standards to your beneficiaries, set an example for green buildings, and enable vocational training.

Example: the NGO Morija in Burkina Faso

When setting up a rehabilitation project for people with physical handicaps, the NGO Morija decided to increase the capacity of its medical-surgical facility in Kaya (Centre-Nord region) with two new buildings, 280 m2 each, built in Nubian Vault, providing space for 30 additional beds.

“The main idea was to have a building that fit with our values and the principles of sustainable development. We were especially convinced by the concepts of non-imported local materials, of a simple, modular and replicable building system, of on-site vocational training and of energy sustainability. Furthermore, we had been seeking funding for new buildings for 2 years, to no avail. Integrating an innovative system like the Nubian Vault was what convinced them.”

Vocational Training

Help us boost the training actions for Nubian Vault masonry. You will support the emergence of a trade with real prospects, and you will help answering the growing demand for Nubian Vault buildings.

Example: Tériya Amitié Mali

NV Building site of the Artisanal Production Unit in Niéna (Mali)

Teriya Amitié Mali

The association Tériya Amitié Mali has supporter for over 30 years the people of Niéna (Circle of Sikasso) in building development projects in the fields of education, health, culture and economy.

In 2015, it commissioned a Nubian Vault Artisanal Production Unit (APU) for Misola flour, to fight malnutrition and secure employment for women and youth, including via vocational training to the NV masonry trade on the construction-site. In 2016-2017, it continued its support by funding the training of 2 conventional masons and their 3 apprentices and the building of their own NV homes. In 2018 Teriya commissioned another NV building for Niéna (this time a double classroom) and supported further entrepreneurial development of metal sheet masons turned NV artisans.

An effective partner relay, Teriya Amitié Mali is today the linchpin for local dissemination of the NV concept in Niéna and more broadly in the Sikasso area.

Resettlement Programmes

When designing resettlement or sponsored housing programmes, consider having them built in the Nubian Vault system, to offer to your beneficiaries the added advantages of an appropriate architecture and vocational training.

Example: the NGO Banlieues du Monde in Mauritania

Diakré Village built in NV (Mauritania)

Rural NV in Diakré

Between 2014 and 2°17, AVN supported the creation of the first all-NV village, established by the NGOs Banlieues du Monde and Le Partenariat, with the financial help of the Dubai Charity Association.

On the border between Senegal and Mauritania, the Sheikh Zayed Village of Diakré is composed of 51 private homes, a mosque, a literacy centre and a maternity. This project's beneficiaries are Mauritanian returning refugees who left the country during the war. These families used to live in very substandard conditions, under metal sheets today used as stables for the cattle.

Individuals

Chloé Adloff — 2018-05-25T08:55:41Z

AVN's programme improves living standards, economies and vocational training for the many through the emergence of an appropriate housing market in the Sahel. The Nubian Vault Association invites its donors to consider themselves as social investors creating social impacts (society, economy, environment).

Supporting the programme as a whole is key because it allows AVN to have:

Flexibility in investment choices, essential to develop its activities in favour of local populations;
A positive, direct and growing impact on the field;
Capacity for action through lasting funding.

How to contribute?

I want to give:

By mail: I download and print the donation form and send it, with my gift, to Association La Voûte Nubienne - 7, rue Jean Jaurès - 34190 GANGES
Via secure online payment on our partner Global Giving's website

I wish to help in some other way

You may know in your own circles people who would be interested in the Nubian Vault and would be able to support its expansion:

People like you who wish to support a different, innovative and efficient humanitarian project;
Associations and NGOs seeking a sustainable building system, vector of local employment;
Socially responsible businesses that want to give back;
African representatives and policy makers, and their Western counterparts;
African diasporas trying to help their parents and home countries.

Tell them about us!

Contribute

Chloé Adloff — 2018-05-25T08:51:00Z

Getting involved with AVN means participation in the large-scale transformation of building practices in Africa, enabling:

Decent housing for the many;
Social and economic development of communities;
Access to jobs for many rural youths;
Climate change adaptation of the most vulnerable populations;
Preservation of the environment in the Sahel.

Individuals, NGOs, businesses and foundations, policy makers, vocational training actors and financial institutions, AVN needs you to reach its goals and multiply its impacts!