BUILDING THE FUTURE FOR WOMEN IN TANZANIA

Executive Director Estahappy Mariki with Girls Foundation participants.

The Arusha jobsite hummed with even more energy and enthusiasm than usual yesterday. The future residents of the Girls House, lined up to distribute sand, aggregate and cement for the floor slab of one of two bedroom wings. Every year, our client, the NGO Girls Foundation of Tanzania, sponsors two to three dozen girls, typically at the top of their primary school classes, from secondary school through university. During school breaks like this, they gather in Arusha to gain leadership and life skills to support their life journeys.

The Girls House will be the largest of seven structures planned for the Girls Center. For more than ten years, we’ve been collaborating with the fantastic crew of NGO Africa Schoolhouse. In June, the staff and foremen travelled more than 350 miles from Mwanza to Arusha and began training a crew of local men and women laborers. Over the past six days, they built walls for half of the Girls House structures from the slab up, ready for lintel beams next week.