Sumbawanga Trade School


Julia at one of the Machine shops at the trade school
Emma at a typical classroom in the Masonry section of the Trade School

This is another place we are trying to help.  It is a trade school, set up by the diocese in 1950.  It has over 100 students and serves a large area around Sumbawanga.  The students choose a vocational track at this school:  truck-driving, electrical, auto-mechanic, masonry, sewing, secretarial, or computer science.  The Trade School issues two year degrees and can train students to a certificate level or just a skill level.  Many of our friends from the stove-team attended this school and we think they are doing a really good job preparing the next generation of Tanzanian people.  In fact, many of the top builders and tradespeople from the area are graduates of this school.

Some of you may recognize the green cylindrical stove in the pictures below, that is an In-stove, a type of institutional wood-burning stove made by some of my dad's friends.  We bought that stove and had it in our backyard for a few months to test it out and learn from the design.  After we were finished with it, Ed and Nancy paid to have it shipped here.  As you can see the In-Stove is in almost constant use and has displaced one of the three stone fires previously used for cooking in this kitchen.  Some of you may even remember this same kitchen from last year where I learned how to cook Ugali  Pat Cooking Ugali 2018.

In one of the final pictures you will see a pile of cement bags labeled "Tuff-Floor" that is a special type of refractory cement that Ed and Nancy had imported from South Africa for the Marian Stove project.  That delivery was moved here as Gabriel is in the process of shifting the Marian Stove production out of Fr Chomba's garage and into a more permanent facility here at the Trade School.


Headmaster of the trade school and one of the cooks with the new Instove
Tuff-Floor recently delivered to the Trade School for the production of more Stoves

In-Stove in operation preparing student lunch

In-stove replacing one of the previous three stone fires

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