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Special Project 
Gregory Mchopa
Website for Fine Artist based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – www.mchopa.com
On our way back to the hotel on a Wednesday afternoon, we dropped by a small artist
community that was located right across from the TechnoServe ofce. There, we could see
artists hard at work and also look at a large selection of art that was available for sale. As we walked through the area, there was a set of paintings by an artist that really caughtour eye, and we decided to ask around to see who he was. We were told that the artist’sname was Gregory Mchopa, and his studio happened to be just around the corner, so wedecided to drop by and let him know that we liked his work. We had a great time gettingto know him and he was also open to sharing about some of the challenges that he faced
as an artist living in Tanzania. We wanted to nd a way to help, and also wanted to see him
paint – so we setup a meeting for the next day to watch him in action and see if we couldcome up with some ideas.
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Special Project - Continued 
Gregory Mchopa
Website for Fine Artist based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – www.mchopa.com
 The next morning, we were able to see Mchopa paint live, and it was amazing to be able
to see rst hand all the steps he went through to create a painting – from stretching out the
canvas to signing his name at the very end.We decided that since we had some design and internet skills, we would try to put togethera website for him so that he could sell some paintings online. Using Google Apps, we wereable to secure the perfect domain name – www.mchopa.com! Two days later, I was able to get a working website up just in time for our lecture on Satur-day titled: The Importance of Design in Business & Leveraging the Internet for your Business. This allowed us to use a real example to show how the design and the Internet could beused to help entrepreneurs in their business ventures and how they can take advantage of the products that Google has to offer.
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