Shaster Foundation

Washing stations in Cape Town One of the most recently developed project centers is in Cape Town, South Africa. The project that won the 2009 President s IQP Award took place in Khayelitsha, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town, where the Shaster Foundation, the project s sponsor, had already constructed a set of community buildings to provide basic shelter, medical resources, and a community center. 

In the end, the Shaster Foundation commended the project team not only for the excellence of the design and construction of the laundry and irrigation system, but also for the wonderful way the students had served as ambassadors for their institution and for their country. The Foundation assured the students that their work would serve as a model for other washing stations and similar improvements in other settlements in the region, thus noting an added dimension of the project s sustainability - its extension by example to others to come. 

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