Local volunteering
One huge advantage of bottle school projects is the opportunities given to local school children to volunteer their time and energy through collecting bottles and assisting in the construction of a bottle school.
Often, communities where bottle schools are built are not of sufficient economic means or size to amass the thousands of bottles and several tons of trash needed to complete their school. Without the participation and assistance of hundreds of school children from surrounding villages, their projects would likely never be completed.
One donation covers many needs
Bottle school projects address many needs within the scope of a single project. Educational, environmental and community development goals combine in a multi-faceted way to provide a vast range of benefits to communities who build bottle schools.
Value for money
By building using “waste” materials and by utilizing the volunteer