St. James Community Orphans School (Mfangano Island)

St. James Community Orphans School is a community owned school whose idea was conceived to the challenges that the community has been withover the years. For a long time, parents have passed on leaving their children to be orphans who are either total or partial. Due to constant and continuous death and other related issues, the number of these orphans grew to an escalating rate which eventually led to call for intervention. It is this regard the school has taken good care of most of these orphans since school opened its doors on the 9th January 2012 hitherto St. James Community School is located in Mfangano Island, Homabay county in Kenya. It’s one of the many islands in Lake Victoria with several beaches. Being an island with many fishing beaches, it’s prone to a unique lifestyle that contributes to high prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS which leads to many orphans.
In 2014, the school started with a population of 45 orphans represented in three kindergarten classes, with 3 teachers. To date the school is enjoying a population of 112 both total and partial orphans aged between 3 years to 12 years. The school has seven classes with 8 teachers.

Volunteers will work for six hours daily from Monday to Friday.
Activities: brick making - workshops about children rights to the local community - advocacy against teenage pregnancy - social work majorly guiding and counseling for the HIV/AIDS program • Field visits and face to face meetings with the local people • Participate in home visits to enhance inter-cultural education and solidarity