bridge renovation

This project consists in a renovation of one of the old Italian bridges of the city .Despite time passed, the bridge is still in good conditions and it still represents one of the most important connections of the city.

Founded in 1920 by the Duke Luigi Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta as an agricultural colony with the name "Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi", it had a remarkable development in the thirties. The town, then commonly called "Villaggio Abruzzi", or more commonly Villabruzzi, became the main agricultural center of the Italian.Somalia during the Fascism, with a modest connected food industry.

The "Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi" was founded only 50 km north of Mogadishu, in a fertile valley near the river Uebi Scebeli, and was connected to the capital by a railway (now deactivated): the Mogadishu-Duca degli Abruzzi railway. It was located 1 km south of the ancient village of Jowhar (which ended up incorporated in the twenties with its 300 inhabitants). In 1926, the colony included 16 villages, inhabited by 3,000 Somalis and 200 Italians. In 1940, "Villabruzzi" already had a population of 12,000 inhabitants, of which about 3,000 Italians (25% of the total population).

PowerOffGridd is sponsoring this project that aims to provide a double service to the city and the community, in fact through the use of solar panels and an accurate study of the green spaces and pedestrian areas will be possible to transform what is now a bridge used by both, car and pedestrian, into a Famer-Marketplace that will permit to the farmers not only to sell their goods but also charge their phones and utilities. This Multi-use pedestrian bridge will have :

-Free WiFi

-Free Mobile charge

-Space for the market installations and relax spots