Nyabosongo Bena Academy

Project background
• Nyabosongo Bena Academy was started in 2005 with 23 students as a pre-school. The School currently has a population of 346 pupils; 149 girls and 197 boys and 147 for the pre-school. There are 12 teachers in total. The School has 8 classrooms and the most of the facilities are still under construction. The school is run by a Parents Teachers Association and the teachers are registered by the Teachers Service Commission.
• The establishment of the School is a major milestone thanks to the efforts of Mr. John Magesi Chacha, its founder who died on 6th October 2013 but left a sound legacy for posterity having himself been actively involved in KVDA as a volunteer and Board member since the 1970’s. His legacy flourishes through volunteering that was his passion with spectacular influence in the larger Kuria region of Kenya.
• There is no doubt that the institution will enhance sustainable development within the community whose struggles are emboldened by the need to ensure access to basic education, urgent need to address the grave issues of alcohol, drug and substance abuse, girl child education, repugnant cultural practices like FGM and early pregnancy for teenage girls.
• The inception of NYABOSONGO BENA ACADEMY came in handy with the many challenges that affect the community. Their struggles are emboldened by the need to ensure access to education by the majority people from the community, arrest the grave issue of alcohol, drug and substance abuse, the obtaining realities on climate change, repugnant cultural practices like FGM and early pregnancy for teenage girls.
• The majority of the local people are small scale farmers sustaining livelihoods on subsistence agriculture. Economic statistics rank Kuria region as poor despite the fact the region is well endowed with vast natural resources including huge tracts land that have not been fully exploited for a long time and its affinity with Tanzania one of the few countries in Africa well-endowed with natural resources.