Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks
Displaced Gaza sisters Farah and Tala have won an international prize for a project that turns war rubble into reusable bricks. According to the BBC, the pair wanted to "turn destruction into something useful".
Young Gaza sisters Farah and Tala, who have been displaced by the war, developed a project that turns rubble and concrete left by the conflict into reusable bricks, the BBC reports. The pair won an international youth innovation prize for the design.
The project takes concrete debris from destroyed buildings, grinds it down and mixes it with binders to produce new construction bricks. Speaking to the BBC, the sisters said their aim was to "turn destruction into something useful".
The scale of infrastructure damage in Gaza is estimated to be massive; the volume of material needed for reconstruction is seen as a logistical challenge that could take years. Local engineers said that if the sisters' approach can be scaled on the ground, it could both lower costs and ease rubble disposal pressures; international aid groups are following the project.
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