Prof. Paturzo's visit to Kiganza Village

Over the past six months or so we've been working closely with a man named Paul Paturzo. Paul is an established architect and professor in the city of Boston and has been trying to help us partner up with some of the local universities in the Boston area. Forming partnerships and obtaining grants proved difficult so Paul decided to take time out of his busy schedule and offered to visit the site and draft a master plan of GOSESO's future campus. The first few days of Paul's visit were more difficult than we expected. Although we had previously done a survey of GOSESO's land, none of the existing structures appeared on the map. This meant that we needed to do a lot of measuring and somehow start the process of obtaining a topographical map. This is a picture of Paul sketching in the location of classrooms on top of the future construction site. What a beautiful view!
Everyday we all would spend at least a few hours up on GOSESO land and then we would take the information gathered back to the house to work on some drawings. As you can see we weren't as organized as we'd hope to be. After spending a few hours in the sun, we all decided it was time to take a breather. We sat with the rangers in the gazebo and started to explain what it was that we were doing. Paul pulled out some drawings to show the rangers what we had been working on, which they all enjoyed immensely. While we were resting Paul had the opportunity to make a friend. It may look like the baboon enjoys Paul more than he enjoys it but I assure you feelings were mutual.

This is Paul a few days before leaving Kiganza Village. Before he left we wanted to make sure he got a small taste of Tanzanian living. Look how happy he looks while hand washing his clothes. Who said work has to be boring.