Education, Skills and Learning

This factory in the Ivory Coast is turning plastic waste into classrooms

Ivory Coast's former soccer player Didier Drogba applauds with pupils in a classroom of a school built by the Didier Drogba Foundation at Pokou Kouamekro, Gagnoa, Ivory Coast, January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1213683740

The plastic classrooms lock together like Lego bricks. Image: REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

Inna Lazareva
Journalist, Thomas Reuters Foundation
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Children and teachers in a preschool built using plastic bricks in Gonzagueville, a suburban of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Children and teachers in a preschool built using plastic bricks in Gonzagueville, a suburban of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Image: Frank Dejongh/UNICEF
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