In 2015, Bashay Village council executives approached PSFA with an idea to build a much needed vocational training facility in the Karatu District. With the generous funding of Vancouver’s retired professor of Economics and Forestry, Dr Peter Pearse, and in partnership with Victoria’s African Book Box Society, the first phase was built by October 2017. It included an Administration building and Workshop buildings for 4 trades; Electrical, Plumbing, Tailor/Sewing, and Computer Training. Electricity and water were provided to the site. In 2020 a 32 Girls dormitory and a Kitchen/Dining Hall were added. Classes of 20 students per trade commenced in January 2019.

Simba Milima Primary School was developed to satisfy a need for educating many children of families living in the Doffa village area south of Bashay village, who were too distant from the existing Bashay Primary School. The beginning enrolment was 160 children, including some transferred from Bashay Primary to alleviate their travel distance to school.

PSFA built a 2-Classroom building and an Administration building in 2016, followed by a 2-family Teacher Residence building completed in 2018. Remaining classrooms were completed in 2019. A Kitchen & Dining Hall was completed in 2023. Water provided to the site from a pipe junction located a couple of kilometres to the east allows running water in the residences’ kitchens and showers. Solar panels provide electricity for lighting to all buildings and in future for computer use in the classrooms.

This project is sponsored by Safari Partners Inc of Vancouver Canada, who provide funds on a yearly basis to allow completion of the 9 building complex by the year 2022.

PSFA partnered with the African Book Box Society of Victoria, BC, to develop a 64-girl dormitory to house Luhunga Secondary School students in the village of Mufindi in south Tanzania. PSFA designed it as an enclosed self-contained facility with 8 rooms each housing 8 students, 2 house mother rooms, a kitchen/dining hall, a multipurpose room, a communal toilet/shower room, and workshop/storage room. Sustainable features include roof rainwater capture in 4 10,000 litre tanks, solar heated hot water, solar power and lighting and a vegetable garden

This project, located in the village of Huduma in northwest Tanzania, is being funded by the ex-cadet alumni of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario, Canada. All classrooms were completed by 2019. 4 Teacher Residences were completed by 2022. An Administration/Library building was completed in 2023.

The teacher residence buildings have “modern” kitchen, shower and toilet facilities with piped water.

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Our Tanzanian Project Manager Mathew Gabriel Sulle’s research uncovered a need for a new primary school in the small village of Qameyu, about 80 km from the town  of Babati in northwestern Tanzania. Approximately 50 – 60 children were without a school. Thanks to the timely donation of Mr Ted Woodcock of Victoria, we were able to build the first phase of this school that included 4 classrooms and an Administration Building. The village agreed to construct a Toilet building, which is now under construction.

The future phases will include the remaining 3 classrooms, a Library Building, a Kitchen/Dining Hall building, Teacher Residences, and Sanitary and Water systems.

Electricity supply to the site is impractical and costly, so solar power systems are envisaged in the future.

The Gongali village mayor, Peter Hayshi, requested PSFA to build a much needed high school to service the 4 existing primary schools in the village’s  large area. The impetus for the project was the timely generous donation of Mr Tony Gvora of Victoria Canada who wished to memorialize his wife Edith who passed away the previous year. The minimum Phase 1 development required to allow the naming of the school was 4 classrooms , an administration building and a toilet building, all of which was completed in Dec 2014. The high quality construction can be attributed to a master builder, Mr Restus (Rusti) Sanka. Before the school can be registered, further development of 3 laboratory classrooms is required. A well has been drilled nearby for water, but has yet to have pump systems installed to get it to the site. Electricity, sewage and storm water drainage systems are awaiting further funding.

The Kilimamoja (Ayatsere) Primary School is located about 15 km east of Karatu in the Lake Manyara region. The area is farmland, producing crops of maize, beans, pea and sunflower. Since the first 2 classrooms were built in 2012, the school has completed another 5 classrooms and 2 teacher residences. The teacher families are raising children and growing gardens and crops. Water is supplied to the site but its remote distance will prevent any electricity servicing for many years. Solar panels systems  are envisaged and donors are urgently needed to fund their installation.

9. Gongali-Ph2-Pupil

4. Gongali-Ph1-first classes

5. Gongali-Ph1-Classroom

6. Gongali-Ph1-pouring concrete

7. Gongali-Ph1-roof framing

8. Gongali-Ph1a-Teacher Family at Residence

11. Gongali-Ph3-opening celebrations - new Dining Hall

The Gongali (Aslini) School is located about 14 km south of Karatu in a farmland area producing crops of maize, sunflower, beans and pidgeon pea. Since the first two classrooms were built in 2010, it has grown steadily to now include a Kitchen/Dining Room, all 7 classrooms and 4 teacher residences. The only remaining buildings are a Library/Teacher Room building and 2 more teacher residences. This school has been developed as the model for all PSFA projects; a community where the buildings have multipurpose use, crops and gardens are grown by the teachers’ families, and a place for children to grow up. Because the site has piped gravity-fed water and electricity, the Mayor has decided to relocate Village offices here, and plans are being made to build a church at the site.

1. Majengo Building Plan

2. Majengo School Class

1. Majengo School w: kids

3. Majengo roof framing

This school was built for orphaned pre-school children in the Majengo District of Arusha, Tanzania. The building has 2 classrooms for 30 pupils each, a washroom and a new Craft Room where unemployed single mothers can learn a craft to provide income for their family.