Donate a builDing literacy center, health center, agricultural barn ...

You are an NGO, a philanthropist, a development institution, a company...

Fund the construction of a building a literacy center, a health center, an agricultural storehouse, offices... and kickstart a NV dissemination program in your chosen territory.

Build a useful building for the community, as a first NV building allows people to see by themselves what a NV looks like, which helps to create a rapid demand for other buil-dings, thus generating a new local market.

A kickstart building is part of a program.It cannot be financed alone. Indeed, to be efficient, a kickstart building has to be part of an overall dissemination program in the surroun-ding villages. Financing a kickstart building increases the speed of diffusion and adoption of the NV tech-nique.

CharaCteristiCs

- about 60m2, 1 vault + 2 half vaults,- capacity of 50 seats,- 40 days for construction,- 7 masons & apprentices hired. Estimated cost: $5000 to *$8,000*

* This is an average cost. It varies depending the country of construction, the finishes and the popu-lation’s involvement.

Example: a literacy center in Senegal

> AVN will link you with selected NV entrepreneurs to construct such buildings > AVN will quality control those buildings as part of your investment

sChools oFFiCes

health Centers agriCultural builDings

A fast way to start a local market

Financing a kickstart building is one of the most efficient ways to rapidly build up the market, because it generates demand from the clients that have seen the kickstart building and want to build one too.

The first NV building - the power to convince people

One of the cultural barriers to the acceptance of the NV concept is that most people have never seen a vaulted roof before, and can’t imagine that a roof without timber or iron support can stand by itself. But once the people have seen a NV for themselves and have felt its advantages, they are very likely to adopt this technique for their future houses.