📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Naar-olong Primary School is situated in Naar-Olong sub-location, Masurura location, Keiyan division in Trans-Mara district.
The school is situated 8 Km from Kehancha town and it was founded in 1990 with community efforts It has 250 pupils with high girls enrolment at initial stages and the numbers dramatically drop as they climb the academic ladder due to early marriages for the girl child and the rampant practice of female genital mutilation that remain a great challenge within the Kuria community when people cling to retrogressive cultural ways that continue to stifle genuine development potentials within the region.
Composition of the community
The local community is predominantly Maasai that residing in the wider Trans-Mara district.
They border the Kuria and Kisii communities of Kenya and their economic lifeline is livestock rearing.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will work for six hours daily from Monday to Friday.
Alongside manual work: Brick making, construction and teaching. They will also visit homes and engage in topical discussions on the thematic focus of the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in School classrooms with very basic living conditions. KVDA will provide foodstuffs and volunteers will prepare their own meals in turns. Volunteers have an obligation to climb down the level of the people with the aim of exposure to development challenges. Water is available from springs and it is recommended that drinking water should be boiled or medicated. Mineral water available at supermarkets is also recommended. There is no electricity connection at the project but volunteers can charge their electric appliances at the nearest market center.