Nyabosongo Bena academy

This school was started in 2005 with 23 students as a pre-school and currently it has 147 pupils and 69 for the pre-school and the total number of pupils is 216. The School has 8 classrooms on two different plots with a borehole and 10 toilets for students and 2 for teachers. The school is run by a Parents Teachers Association and the teachers are registered by the Teachers Service Commission. The initiation of Nyabosongo Bena Academy came in handy with the many challenges that affect the community. The initiation 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 community members are small scale farmers sustaining livelihood on subsistence agriculture

Volunteers will work for six hours daily from Monday to Friday.
Manual work and Intercultural activities: brick making and construction work at the School - Teaching Primary School pupils - Sporting together with the pupils - Exposure to the challenges of Female Genital mutilation (FGM) - Inter-cultural learning coupled with home visits for exposure to development challenges - Possibility to visit the historic sites like Hippo point on Lake Victoria in Kisumu City, renowned Kakamega Rain Forest and the Equator point at Maseno University; among other spectacular sites of interest in the region (however, this will be done most probably during the weekends)