Balouo Salo Schools
A school of excellence in Africa
Senegal
A school of excellence in Africa
Senegal
Although education is a fundamental human right, today it remains a privilege, especially in the rural areas where Balouo Salo operates. Here, schools are precarious and overcrowded, with spaces unsuitable for learning and psycho-physical growth.
The Balouo Salo Schools project was born to address this gap by proposing an innovative, sustainable, and revolutionary educational and architectural model that makes education the focal point of personal and community development.
We want to create something unique in the world, supported by one of the most famous architects worldwide, Kengo Kuma, who together with his firm KKAA is designing a school of excellence where even the spaces – beyond the content – become educational tools.
A visionary project aiming to become an international benchmark for inclusive education, valuing local materials, environmental sustainability, and community participation.
An architecture that educates, cares, welcomes, and innovates.
Create a complex of modern, inclusive, and resilient school buildings, capable of welcoming students in stimulating and safe educational environments.
Provide equal educational opportunities to girls, boys, and adolescents, with particular attention to the most vulnerable and marginalized individuals.
Use local materials and bioclimatic solutions to ensure comfort, durability, and environmental respect, even in challenging rural contexts, creating educational spaces unique in the world.
Bring to life a project unique in the world that can become a model of excellence in the protection and promotion of the most essential human right for building the future: education.
Rural communities live in a state of significant educational disadvantage: there is a lack of adequate facilities, teaching materials, qualified staff, and above all, spaces that can truly educate.
With the Balouo Salo Schools project, we want to fill this gap by creating innovative school facilities where the environment itself becomes an ally in learning, stimulating psychological, physical, and neurological conditions to create the leaders of tomorrow.
Thanks to the collaboration with visionary architect Kengo Kuma and his firm Kengo Kuma & Associates, the school will be conceived as a work of excellence: a sustainable, accessible, inspiring campus, built with local materials, inclusive spaces, and educational paths integrated with the environment.
A project promoting a new educational paradigm in which spaces actively participate in the wellbeing, equality, and empowerment of communities, alongside holistic and neuro-centered programs where learning focuses on the individual, enhancing their uniqueness.
This project aspires to become one of the most revolutionary schools in the world, a symbol of cooperation, vision, and hope, destined to inspire other realities across the continent and the world.
We will update this page with project materials developed by Kengo Kuma and all the respective environments.
A holistic and neuro-centered educational approach that places the individual at the center of the learning process, valuing uniqueness, emotions, and potential. The curriculum does not dictate the path; rather, the child is accompanied in discovering the world through curiosity, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking.
It aims to create an education that teaches being before knowing, where self-awareness, analytical ability, and a sense of responsibility become tools to face life’s challenges and contribute to social change. The goal is to form free, strong, and emancipated personalities, capable of building solutions for tomorrow’s problems and becoming leaders of a fair, sustainable, and inclusive future.
In this model, the school will not simply be a place of learning, but a laboratory for human, social, and cultural growth, sowing hope and redemption in communities. It will also be an inclusive place open to everyone, where spaces become the core of development.
Kengo Kuma, founder of KKAA - Tokyo, Japan
Kengo Kuma is one of the most important and visionary architects in the world, renowned for his approach to finding balance between man and nature. He decided to support the project by designing a unique and revolutionary architecture, capable itself of educating about equity, environmental respect, and respect for the individual.
This is a unique project on a global scale, and that is why the world’s most important architect has decided to help us with his design. Now it’s up to you to join this mission.
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Your company, foundation, or association can contribute to the realization of this very important project. The world’s most renowned architect has decided to support this cause, and your organization can do so as well.
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The world’s most important and visionary architect, Kengo Kuma, together with his firm Kengo Kuma & Associates, supports the project for the development of an architecture as an educational excellence complex.
