project management for design, planning and artistic site management for a pediatric centre in ethiopia for GRAFT architects

The Zahara Children Centre is a pediatric clinic for HIV/AIDS and TB Care. In 2011, Global Health Committee broke ground on the Zahara Children Centre in Sebeta on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The centre uses the integrated Maddox model: the HIV counseling manual for children and expertise learned at the ground level in Cambodia, to address the needs of HIV infected and affected children in Ethiopia. Given the crushing burden of TB in Ethiopia, the centre will also have a major focus on children infected with TB and will serve as a Centre of Excellence for drug-resistant TB care for children. The Zahara Children Centre is being built using local sustainable materials: adobe and bamboo. The project was designed with oversight from Brad Pitt and funded by the Jolie-Pitt-Foundation.

client: Global Health Committee
partner: Harvard Medical School, Dr. Anne Goldfeld,
consultants: RAAS Architects Addis Abeba, ZRS Architekten Ingenieure Berlin
subsidies: Jolie Pitt Foundation