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Mbesese Build: An Experimental Experience (Same (Tanzania, Africa) Polytechnic College, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong May 2019

Mbesese Build: An Experimental Experience (Same (Tanzania, Africa) Polytechnic College, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong

Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA

The Project
Communities in East Africa are in need of supplemental and diversified tertiary educational opportunities to increase humancapitalandreducetheseverelevels ofpovertythatareendemicintheregion.TheSame’PolytechnicCollege is a proposed vocational training institution to be established in the Kilimanjaro Region of the United Republic of Tanzania. The college is the pilot project ofa US registered charitable organization whose primary purpose is to improve quality of life for rural communities in East Africa. The non-profit has partnered with design firms and the students and faculty of The University to develop a framework around which the campus will develop. The objective is to plan for orderly campus growth by …