Slum Art Foundation has commenced the building of the physical structure of its school for arts using plastic bottles.
The project is tagged – the Slum Art “Pet Bottle” school and is set to be an Educational Monument for children living within the slum in Ijora Badia in Lagos.
The foundation’s sole purpose is to empower children living within various slums in Lagos State through mentorship, mind restructuring and helping them build their creative talent and skills, thereby making them useful to themselves and their immediate community.
Commenting on the project, Director, Slum Art Foundation and four-time Guinness World Record holder, Adetunwase Adenle stated that, the drive for building of the facility is one aimed at providing children with an enabling environment within the slum, where children can be free and stay within a secured environment after school learning required skills in Art.
“The use of plastic bottles in the construction of the school is one aimed at showcasing the usefulness of artistic materials around us through disposed and discarded materials termed as “waste” lying around in our society,” he stated.
“Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-olu, recently urged industrial organizations on the need to develop alternatives to plastic bottles and other non-degradable items constituting major threats to the sustainability of our environment, through the pilot project of the School construction in Ijora Badia Slum by Slum Art, we hope to be a part of the drive by the current administration in sustaining a healthy environment whilst also creating an enabling set-up that takes children off the streets after school and imparting them with required skill-sets that will aid their development,” Adetunwase added.
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