The deep motivation of the architect in his projects is to promote modern and sustainable architecture in Africa. As someone from a rural African community, with more than 80 % of the people being illiterate, who got the chance to attend higher education in Europe, he regards it as his duty to use his skills for the benefit of the people of his home continent.

Every child in the world is full of creativity. What children need to use their potential is education. I am convinced that with the provision of intelligent architecture this potential can be advocated. That is what I am trying to do. (Francis Kéré)To achieve sustainability, the projects are based on the principles of designing for climatic comfort with low-cost construction, making the most of local materials and the potential of the local community, and adapting technology from the industrialized world in a simple way. With his first school in Gando, he taught the local people how to refine clay and local materials, and how different construction techniques could further improve the performance. By that, the instructed people who worked on the construction were able to undertake their own building projects without the need of outside help in the future. Soon after the opening, the school counts more than 280 pupils from Gando and its surrounding villages, this made an extension obligatory. Meanwhile the school-complex of the village is accomplished through teacher’s houses and a hospital ward.

Kéré建筑致力于在非洲推广现代可持续建筑技术。作为在非洲农村，80%的人都是文盲，身为其中的一员，Kéré建筑获得了到欧洲接受高等教育的机会，因此他认为这是他能够利用自身技能为养育他的大洲的人民谋福利的责任。

全世界的每个孩子都充满了创造力。需要通过教育来使他们的潜力得以发挥。我相信，有了智能建筑，这种潜力就能得到发扬。这就是我所致力的事业。（弗朗西斯·凯雷）

为了实现可持续性，项目遵循以低成本施工实现气候舒适性的设计原则，最大限度地利用当地材料和当地群体的潜力，以简单的方式改造工业化社会的技术。Kéré建筑的第一所学校建在Gando，他在那里教当地人如何精制黏土和提炼当地材料，讲解不同的施工技术如何能进一步提高房屋的性能。通过这种方式，经培训后从事施工的人员将来就能承建他们自己的建设项目，而无需外界的帮助。这所学校开办后，很快就从Gando和周围村庄招收了280名学员，因此学校不得不进行扩建。同时，教师公寓和一所医院病房的建成使该村的学校综合设施得以完善。