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Article

Abstract

In summer 2019, two UT Arlington faculty led a study abroad to Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa -- Professor Diane Jones Allen, Director of Landscape Architecture in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) and Professor Michael Zaretsky, Director of Architectural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering in the College of Engineering. They brought seven UT Arlington students from the disciplines Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Public Affairs to work with communities in rural Tanzania. They worked with a Cincinnati-based non-profit called Village Life Outreach Project (VLOP) with whom Professor Zaretsky has worked with since 2008. He is a VLOP Board Member and this was his eighth trip with VLOP to East Africa. Professor Allen had previously spent three months working in Tanzania with a different non-profit. Professors Allen and Zaretsky met with the students for three weeks before the trip during which students researched the culture and context of East Africa, Tanzania and the Rorya District of Tanzania. Projects were developed and defined before traveling so that the time on the ground would be productive. Several projects were undertaken in Tanzania addressing aspects of water and sanitation in rural Africa, developing a landscape design for the Roche Health Center, assessing recent buildings on the Roche Health Center site, researching the progress of implementation of the Interlocking Stabilized Soil Block (ISSB) Press, and meeting with the water committees and the women to gain insight into their perspective around water issues.

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Architecture

Publication Date

11-18-2019

Language

English

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