ABOUT US

Rudy and Baoyan is a husband-and-wife team — an architect and entrepreneur who are passionate about what they do. Through their international commercial projects undertaken through their parent firm Genesis Architects, they take joy in honing their skills and bringing excellence and creativity to the table. In 2014, however, they had an encounter in Africa that shaped how they view and use their talents and craft thereafter. Going to Mozambique to live for a season with the poorest of the poor transformed their hearts and refined their focus to desire to not only achieve architectural distinction, but to do so in order to meet the vast needs of the marginalised and the vulnerable around the world.

What We Do

Living Oaks is a platform to raise awareness of the needs of the vulnerable around the world and share more about their ongoing projects to support them.

So far, some of the projects include building Africa's first oceanfront university in Mozambique: the first university in East Africa to have a full-fledged 75-hectare campus that allows students to pursue subjects such as marine biology and maritime studies, constructing 40 primary schools in war-torn Congo for over 300 children each, a school for blind children who have been abandoned and living under extreme poverty, and erecting an airstrip in an obscure village in Borneo, Indonesia to enable speedy medical evacuations for children living in orphanages and homes there. Beyond architectural expertise, they also run feeding, education, healthcare, employment and other sustainable programmes that have supported over 50,000 people in 10 nations.

Rudy and Baoyan would love to connect with like-minded people who are passionate about what they do and scale up to do more, whether it is in terms of volunteers or other partnerships.