Hand Over is a design and build company, specialized in delivering environment-friendly and cost effective building solutions using earth construction techniques. Our main focus is on providing resilient, affordable and sustainable housing solutions and community buildings for unprivileged communities, by
empowering local community members, students and graduates. The main issues we are addressing
are:
Lack of resilient & humane housing units for low-income families. Lack of proper sustainable education & hands-on experience for engineering students. Lack of a real sustainable community development approach. Lack of adequate environmental design solutions for our climate conditions. Our vision is to create a flexible, replicable model that could be applied in upgrading and rehabilitation of informal settlements and unprivileged communities. We operate through a collaborative model. We understand that if we want to achieve a real and sustainable community development approach, we need to collaborate with several segments,
entities to reach this vision. Through our work, we collaborate with social enterprises, local NGOs,
universities, local community members and local municipalities. As mentioned earlier, our interventions mostly take place in unprivileged communities, informal settlements and neglected districts. The process that we undergo to implement any project is
as follows:
We select our area of intervention by networking and collaborating with local NGOs and local initiatives, once we are settled on the idea of the project, we prepare a curriculum of several subjects such as: team building, community work, sustainable techniques of construction
and Environmental design. Afterwards, we recruit participant of civil and architecture engineering students and graduates and we deliver the content of the curriculum through interactive sessions and workshops
that includes site visits to the area of intervention, community meetings. Throughout the workshop, the participants start identifying the issue form the local community and they start working together to find the best solution for it.
