Yélé is an isolated village in the west of Mali, near the border of Burkina Faso. In this area many Dogon have converted to the Islam, and this is evident from the many beautiful traditional mosques. The school of compressed earth bricks is the second of a new series. The school has the same lay out as the school in Timissa; three classrooms with a gallery of arches and the familiar ventilation openings. Yet the finishing details are a little different. At the teacher houses in Sevaré the experiments with compressed earth brick flooring was a success. This is why the school in Yélé is fitted with such a floor as well. A lot of expensive cement can be saved using this method. If you want to build with compressed earth bricks you need a location easily reached by truck, so the stones produced in Sevaré can be delivered to the site.
