School Campus

School Buildings:

The school campus is composed of eight classrooms (one per grade from prep to grade 7), two offices (Head Teacher and admin), three toilets blocks (staff, female students, male students), a spacious library with areas for computers and art, several storage rooms, and a very large multipurpose assembly Hall.

Library:

The school lending library was built in 2014.  Today, the library is home to more than 2500 books, which are appropriately leveled and organized into fiction, non-fiction, and class sets. These texts serve as powerful tools to teach students and give access to a world beyond the walls of their classroom. The library is also home to an art corner, as well as a dedicated space for teacher guides and reference materials.

Computer Area:

In early 2020, the US Embassy in Tanzania donated ten computers to our school. By the end of the year, CMA CGM funded five more. Computers are used during the vocational training program called Computer Club where students learn the basics of computer knowledge. Computers are also used by teachers to support their work. One computer is fully devoted to the school office and used daily by the Office Manager to complete administrative tasks.

Art Corner:

Whether it’s paint, crayons, pastels, costumes, paper or craft materials you are looking for, you’ll find it in the school art corner! We have a range of art supplies available to students to enhance their creativity, school performances, and art classes.

Vocational Education Facilities:

At STA, there are several spaces available for teaching Vocational Skills. A kitchen for the Cooking Club, a 2-acre property to learn how to ride a bicycle, a computer area to learn computer knowledge, the Baobab farm with its organic gardens where students can learn about organic agriculture, and plenty of available classrooms where students can be taught other life skills like sewing, understanding business, scouts, and theater.

Organic Farm:

The organic farm of The Baobab Home is a 12 acre science lab where STA students  can learn how to grow and use food for nutrition. Currently, there are several organic gardens where students develop vocational skills class in agriculture and learn valuable lessons in persistence and patience as they work hard each day and wait for crops and plants to grow. Besides this, produce grown at the farm is used in the cooking of the delicious students’ lunches.

The Seed Bank

The Seed Bank, located in the back of Monahan Hall, is, fresh, locked room where our farmers keep their most precious treasure… the seeds that nurture all of the Baobab community! You will find there baskets and jars for each plant used on the shamba, meticulously stored on shelves. They represent our food safety and resilience towards increasing droughts and water overflows in the rainy season. This initiative also supports the importance of native seed saving and soil restoration. Passion fruit, papaya, tomatoes, moringa, artemisia, we have it all!

Monahan Assembly Hall: 

In 2022, to honor the memory of Dr. David Monahan, his family and friends made possible the spacious gathering place that we call “Monahan Hall”. Here, children and staff eat together, parent meetings are held, cooking prep is done. It’s also the storage space for our bulk food and seed supply. At night, it becomes a cinema and we watch movies together. Some students still choose to drink their energizing porridge in our small dining banda, which was built by. Others take their lunch under a tree enjoying a nice breeze. 

Playground and Football/Soccer Field:

Students also need time to have fun and recharge their energy in order to focus again. A playground with swings, towers, slides and a football/soccer field are at our students' disposal during break times.

Clean Environment:

The STA environment is kept clean and sanitized daily. The school has a wonderful team of cleaning staff who take care of maintaining a clean environment at all times, from the toilets to the classrooms and eating areas. Students are also taught to not leave behind any of their trash but to collect and dispose of it appropriately in the waste containers at school.