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Diébédo Francis Kéré
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“[F]rom Gando to Davos is a very very long way, but it's a way that I enjoyed... very much, and it's a way where you realize your privilege. ...To look back and see that I have been one of the very few... to attend education... and to learn how to build and to come back and be able to work together with the community to create... a building. An effort that I have always seen as a matter of heart. ...In my place every member of the community has to contribute... to the growth of the community, and I have been very far away in the world that was not known to my people. Germany is so far away. "What is he doing there?" So especially your mom will be attacked.., saying "Get him back. He should come and help to work in the field. His father was stupid enough to let him go; the first son, and not to contribute... doing agriculture.”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[N]owadays is over-complicated regulation, and even... how... you apply material. Everything is so complex, and you cannot innovate anymore... [W[hat I do is to try every time I have a chance to build in the West and to gather with professionals to make sure we will be able to come out with quality. So first I have a big vision, and I try to put as much... insight in... knowing that if they try to decompose it, to take away elements, ...at the end of the day a core will remain that is quality.., but... I'm trying to use the opportunity that in other places in the world construction can still be innovative, and there I push ...it as a chance to innovate, and then bring this back to Germany.”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he Kéré Foundation... was born out of sheer necessity... I was a student. I had a big heart for my community. I wanted to give them a school. ...I could design, but where to get the money? ...I met every political party ..."Oh, I have an idea to build a school in Africa." [Answer:} "Oh wow, in Africa. You're so naive. It's so corrupt! ...You think you could do something?" I didn't give up. ...Running, running, running, trying to explain why there is a need for me to build a school, and then there is a rejection. "Why you and not the government, and you're a student, why should you do that? Why you don't wait?" I had been facing all of that, and one day I stopped. ...I honestly started to push my colleague[s] to smoke less or drink less coffee, but fund my project, and so... people start to put money in the box that I designed for the school.., a mock-up of the school... used as a box to collect money... Suddenly someone said, "Oh, it's illegal to collect money like this in Germany! ...You need a structure," and so we created the foundation Schulbausteine für Gando... which means, construction bricks for the school in Gando... I got $50,000 U.S. dollars... to build a school. So the Kéré Foundation is a nonprofit structure that I founded as a student to be able to do my work...”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young people are looking for opportunities. They try... to go somewhere else. They don't leave because they want to leave. They leave because their life conditions.. are bad. ...[W]ith my modest workshop ...20 years now.., I have more than 500 young people in that really earn money, and... make a living, and they will never take the road through the Sahara to come to the West... If we develop community.., make them stronger, enabling the youth... to build a better future for generations to come, we will heal our places and contribute to peace in the world. ...[T]his is what I can say through my modest work, and not more.”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source