Our Work
In 2004, the Chatamilu Community in Western Kenya began building a primary school using local materials and volunteer labour. In July 2008, there was a joyful celebration marking the grand opening of the school. Everyone in the community is proud of their mammoth accomplishment...a twelve room permanent brick school, a well eighty feet deep, a pump and a water storage tank, bringing fresh, clean water to the community.
Water-well tested by Shirley and Evans
A hopeful future is built one child at a time
Four hundred happy, eager, motivated children are enrolled in this beautiful, well loved new school. The children sing, dance, study and work hard to achieve their goals.
This community is well respected in the countryside and indeed in all of Kenya for what they have been able to achieve by working together. They have risen to the challenges and there are still hurdles on the road ahead. Poverty is a major challenge and deeply felt. There are many pathways out of poverty. Secondary school education for the very brightest students, Kenya's future leaders, is one. Training in trades for students who are not in that elite category is another. Small projects offering the promise of self sufficiency is a third. These are doable with the help of partnerships like the one that created the miracle of Chatamilu Primary School.
