Well…tonight was a fabulous night at The Lime Restaraunt in South Tampa. We had a packed house with over 300 people in attendance and thoroughly enjoyed seeing friends and family out to support Project Akilah. Stay tuned to the blog for video and pic’s covering the event. It was truly an amazing night and we value our friends/donors that give back to our global community. Cheers to a successful night at The Lime…thanks to Jeff Gigante and the Ciccio & Tony’s Restaraunt Group for playing a vital role in our efforts!
Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Awesome!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Delicious Rwandan coffee!
Come out to the Akilah Benefit at the Lime tomorrow night and take home a bag from the Thanksgiving Coffee Company!
Check out what our friends at Thanksgiving Coffee said about Akilah on their blog.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Akilah on Studio 10 TV in Tampa
Elizabeth appeared on Studio 10 TV yesterday to discuss Project Akilah and the Benefit at the Lime in Tampa on May 21.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
AfH-DC Update
The Architecture for Humanity team has been working hard towards their goal of completing Design Development drawings by August. They recently got an informal design critique be two DC architects and professors, Amy Weinstein and Phil Esocoff. Professor Esocoff listed some great sources to reference such as Hassan Fathy; E.F. Schumacher “Small is Beautiful”; The Craftsman (sociology book on “making is thinking”). The professors provided great insight, and the AfH-DC team will continue to move forward in their design process while utilizing the critiques. The team has also started to create a 3D model of the campus so they can further study the environmental context of the site such as solar and wind patterns. The team is planning to have a more formal design review on July 2.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Metropolitan Safari 2009
Elizabeth with Metropolitan Safari Co-Chairs Heather Summe (center) and Meredith Wiedeman (right)
The 2nd Annual Metropolitan Safari was a huge success!
Over 275 guests filled M1-5 in Tribeca to enjoy the music of the Zulu Drummers and DJ Pro.
See all of the pictures on Flickr.
M1-5 was packed!
Guests in Safari Chic
We raised over $11,000 to support the Akilah Institute!
Project Akilah Co-Founder Dave Hughes even flew in from Hong Kong for the weekend to attend the event.
Akilah Team: Laura Heaton, Board Member; Dave Hughes, Co-Founder; Michelle Bove, Vrunda Vaghela, and Shurid Rahman, Architecture for Humanity team, and Elizabeth Davis, Executive Director
Thank you to our committee members who helped make this night possible:
Co-Chairs:
Heather Summe
Meredith Wiedeman
W. Malcolm Dorson
Louisa W. Ryan
Benefit Committee:
Jonathan Aghravi
Matthew Aleksinas
Thomas B. Babcock
Brian Boland
Chip Campbell
Scott P. Caputo
Brett S. Carlson
Grace Evans
Jessica Fischer
Jill Fleischer
Lillian Gumz
Charlotte E. Hansen
Brad Heritage
Erin Hughes
Jordan Jones
Liz Kahn
Mark Kaplan
John C. Kelly
Tyler Q. Kelly
Christopher Kempner
Robert E. Long
Caitlin McMullen
Christopher Monsif
Coleman Parry
Neesa M. Peterson
Natalia Pica
Trevor Rees
Hilary Robertson
LeeLee Robinson
Scott Robinson
Nicholas Rowland
Danielle A. Snyder
Erin E. Summe
Sarah Thorpe
Chas Trunz
Anne M. Volk
Brandon von Tobel
Keeley Weir
Gabe Wood
And THANK YOU to our sponsors:
Empiric Asset Management
Seventh Generation
Guests dance to the Zulu Drummers from the Lion King on Broadway!
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Land Survey
The Rwandan Workforce Development Authority (the WDA) has provided us with critical support since the very beginnning. Chong Fook Yen, the Director General, has been our advocate within the Ministry of Education and continued to endorse our mission of creating the benchmark system for post-secondary vocational and technical training in Rwanda.
The WDA provided us with office space in their building in Kigali and they have given us assistance throughout the planning and development phase. WDA employees recently completed a full land survey of the site. The Architecture for Humanity team was thrilled to get this information because it helps them a great deal in their design work.
The Akilah Institute is located on Lake Cyohoha in Bugesera District. The land belongs to the Ministry of Education and was previously a youth vocational training center, but the facilities have not been maintained in many years. You can see in the land survey that there is a missing piece in between two tracts of land. This area was given to genocide survivors by the Ministry of Education after the war in 1994. All of this land is situated right along Lake Cyohoha, which means that we have stunning views in every direction!
Land survey done by the Workforce Development Authority