Friday Find: Don Bosco

Don Bosco is a remarkable organization that provides education to disadvantaged students all over the world, including the USA. You can learn more about them at by searching on-line.

I recently visited a local vocational institute in Dar es Salaam. This school not only trains students, it defrays most of its expenses by selling the goods that the students make. We are looking into how we might be able to use this production to assist the bicycle factory.

Here’s what makes this a Friday find: you don’t expect to find the most sophisticated machines in a country hidden in a vocational school but that is exactly what I found.

Pictured below is the machine shop, which also has a high-end CNC machine and an automated motor winding machine.

If you are continuing the bicycle factory story, go here (not posted yet).