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This article originally appeared on Lost at E Minor.
A single sheet of cardboard can’t do much, right? Wrong! In India, many children go to school but don’t have the luxury of sitting behind a desk. To address this issue, the nonprofit organization Aarambh created a necessity out of a single sheet of cardboard: a school desk. The Bombay-based nonprofit worked with designers to come up with the desk design from a simple sheet of cardboard.
They transformed that cardboard into a modern-looking backpack for kids to carry all their school supplies, but when folded out, the briefcase then turns into a work desk.
What’s brilliant about this eco-friendly design is that it costs just 20 cents to produce and each desk is cut in a way so all the student needs to do is fold it together—nothing more is required. This makes education and school supplies even more accessible for families everywhere.
![Building the cardboard desks](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/diy-school-desk-build-aarambh.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Students using cardboard desks](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/diy-school-desk-students-aarambh.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Completed cardboard desk](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/diy-school-desk-aarambh.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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