I saw how the local population changed their humidity regulating adobe houses for a concrete building. It was expensive, but it ‘gave a better impression’. Later on, as they saw those houses were not viable, they got back to the adobe ones, and the concrete one was used as a stable for the animals. That is clear enough, methinks!
Professionally
- Was born in 1979 and is a typical and proud inhabitant of Ghent.
- Is a construction engineer, but has already discovered a lot of sectors. She has worked at KaHo Sint-Lieven for four years, initially as an assistant, and later on as the international coordinator of her department. Subsequently, she worked as a teacher of Dutch for foreigners.
- She decided to launch herself into development aid and worked as a volunteer in Ecuador and in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
- She lived and worked a year and a half in Ecuador, where she got to know local building styles and the way they are perceived by the local population.
- Currently, she works as a part-time collaborator of the Flemish institute for Bio-Ecological building and living (VIBE), and as a part-time researcher, at KaHo Sint-Lieven again.
- She saw that sustainable building projects in the south are really able to drastically change people’s lives. And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?
- In the future, she wants to concentrate more on ‘sustainable building in the South’, and she is working on a paper about that theme.
Personally
- She never says no to a pizza quattro stagioni.
Job:
committee member 
