FUTURE WOMEN ARCHITECTS OF TANZANIA

The new Girls Leadership Center is living up to its name even before completion.  The Africa Schoolhouse team has made it a priority to train local workers in the building crafts, especially women.  Almost 200 people have been employed at the site over the past year, 15% of them women, including two masons and four steel fixers.

 Project Engineer Benjamin John and all the craftspeople on the site created a spontaneous internship program this summer for two women architecture students from Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam and Pauline, one of TGFT’s outstanding recent high school grads.

 It was inspiring to share ideas about architecture with Pauline in June, and even more exciting to see photos of her braving the heights of the roof and learning to plaster.  She has just applied for admission to the architecture program at Ardhi, and we have high hopes for the energy and intelligence that she and these other young women will bring to the future of design in Tanzania.