Gelai School Building Project

Community Projects Africa has helped  Laura Clark to realise a dream. – to build two classrooms for the school at Gelai Village in the Masai lands of Tanzania.

Through our links with Community Challenge, a company specialising in sending corporate groups and individuals wishing to work on projects in the developing world, we were able to set up a “build” in October this year. Laura and a Community Challenge group of enthusiastic and hardy volunteers spent one week working on the Gelai school project. Funds they raised went towards building materials and paying salaries of local crafts people such as bricklayers and carpenters.

During their week they laid foundations and built walls, all at the same time as having a fabulous opportunity to work alongside and get to know the Masai people of the region. The following month the roofs awent on and the interior walls were plastered. The pictures at the top of this page show the completed classrooms, photographed by Mr. Karoli of ACEDE in December 08 - just in time for Christmas! By January 2009 the new classrooms will be furnished and in use. Not bad for a project begun in summer 2008!

Should you wish to visit Tanzania and engage in a similar project - the Choba Primary School, then please visit the Community Challenge web site. and go to the Tanzania community projects.