pro bonoPro Bono: Village GreenEHDD Architecture in San Francisco builds a green elementary school in China after the 2008 earthquake.5 MIN READ
![Qian Yang County is located in one of the poorer provinces in western China. After a 2008 earthquake, California architect Jennifer Devlin offered to build a green and seismically safe elementary school. "We have enabled a future for the girls [and boys] who attend the school ... and knowing that is both humbling and empowering," she says. The project was initiated by Rosalyn Koo, a philanthropist in San Mateo, Calif., who is trying to educate 1,000 Shaanxi Province girls by 2013.](https://architectmagazine.stg.zonda.onl/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2011/tmpdf85-2etmp-tcm20-752497.jpg?w=557)
