Project H’s New York chapter is designing educational math toys for developing and US retail markets, based on the Kutamba AIDS Orphans School in Uganda (an Architecture for Humanity building).

AND WE JUST WON $10,000 from IDEABLOB! Their monthly contest awards $10K to the best small business idea, and Project H is the September winner. Thanks to all who voted for the project! Read the press release via Ideablob here.

Our design team consists of Heleen de Goey from Eindhoven, Holland (she just arrived September 1 and hit the ground running), Dan Grossman and Kristina Drury, New York Chapter Heads, Neha Thatte, and a team of Pratt Design Management graduate students whose strategy expertise we’re lucky to have!

More about the project: Project H worked in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity earlier this year at the Kutamba AIDS Orphans School (sister school to the Nyaka School, also in Southern Uganda and funded by the same organization, gathering case study research regarding the education system, in-classroom needs, curricula, etc. The design team will develop a locally-produced version of the math toy for Kutamba with broader distribution in the developing world, in addition to a sister US retail version based on the same system. View photos of the Kutamba school case study here.

STAY TUNED IN THE COMING WEEKS FOR PROJECT UPDATES, PHOTOS, AND MORE.

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