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ONE LIFE TO LOVE PROJECT

Inspiring things can happen when the right organisations become connected. That’s why it’s exciting to see the new AWF collaboration between NBRSARCHITECTURE and One Life to Love in New Delhi.

One Life to Love (OL2L) is a refuge for special needs children founded in 2013 by Courtney Deacon Lalotra who was volunteering in the slums of Delhi. When she saw thousands of abandoned and neglected children with special needs Courtney gave up her ‘cozy life’ in the USA and began rescuing children from the streets, opening the ‘Home of Hope’ to house and care for them.

OL2L has a long-term vision of setting up a self-sustaining Green Campus as an oasis disadvantaged children, women and animals and this is where NBRSARCHITECTURE comes in. The brief is for centre which will specifically cater to children & adults with special needs, while running an education facility for migrant children, a women-run production line for sanitary pads, an animal rescue centre, an organic vegetable farm and a community health clinic.

NBRS Chairman Andrew Duffin and Project Architect Carmit Harnik Saar have taken up this challenge. Andrew explains that ‘the core of NBRSARCHITECTURE is about creating life changing environments. As architects of the green campus for One Life to Love in Delhi we can assist by creating an environment which supports a sense of shelter and belonging for homeless and disadvantaged children and widows. The impact of our design on people’s lives is the priority of our work.’

The project is in the early stages of planning the buildings and site layout. NBRSArchitecture have lots of experience working on education and community projects in Australia such as the Cairnsfoot Special Needs School in Sydney (pictured below) and will be bringing all their experience to this important humanitarian project.