St Mercy Academy
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About the project
St Mercy Academy
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
St Mercy Academy is a low cost school started from a humble beginning in 2004.We started with only 5 pupils in preprimary school with 3 teachers and make shift structures. We have grown to a population of over 250 pupils and 15 staff. We also support needy children from the community and we have a feeding programme to keep our children in school. St Mercy Academy has been in the forefront of trying to get more children to go to school by convincing their parents who at times are ignorant on the importance of education by charging a very low monthly school fee or sometimes nothing. Some of the children join school while they are already old and therefore pose a great challenge in catching up with the rest. By maintaining high quality education given by qualified and experienced teachers the school has been able to achieve very good results, especially taking the background of the children into account. As a school we are involved in community work especially when it comes to environmental work .We also assist the needy in the community.
Mission:
For the service of God and mankind we are dedicated to impart knowledge skills and abilities to enable our young boys and girls to play an important role in our society.
Objectives
• Providing affordable education to all the society.
• Reduce the cost of education to ensure it’s affordable to all.
• To create a home environment to all children where all are accepted despite their family backgrounds.
• Developing talents through games, sports, music and drama.
• Developing technical skills through practical learning.
• Engaging volunteers for short term and long term projects and assignments from different parts of the world for interaction through learning, sports, games, music, and drama for the benefit of the children.
💼 What the programme involves
Project Activities
Volunteers will be engaged in the following activities:
1. Teaching i.e. Maths, English and Social Work.
2. Helping in preparation and serving of meals during the feeding program,
3. Sports, drama and music.
4. Practical skills such as Agriculture, technical and general.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be accommodated at a house near the project. There are toilets, bath shelters and a kitchen at the project available for use by the volunteers.
🍲 Food
All meals shall be provided in the house.
📍 About the location
Sites of Interest
St Mercy Academy is located aproximately 50 minutes from Mombasa City and volunteers can visit the old town, Fort Jesus and the Wasini island aproximately one hours drive by bus for expedition purposes. Other than that the School is just a few kilometres shy away from Diani beach and volunteers can go there to swim and unwind during there free afternoons.
🤝 Meeting point
Travel arrangements
Volunteers will travel to the project site by train to Mombasa there after take a car to the project site. The journey would take approximately 7 hours to get to the Project.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
VACK/MLTV-07/2022AUTO-EXTAUTO-EXT
02/07/2025 at 00:00 → 01/04/2027 at 00:00
VACK/MLTV-07/2022AUTO-EXT
02/10/2023 at 00:00 → 01/07/2025 at 00:00
VACK/MLTV-07/2022
01/01/2022 → 01/10/2023
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
300.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Ukunda, Kenya
Kenya
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Kenyan Shilling (KES / KSh)
Exchange rate
1 KES = 0.006892 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
East Africa Time
Local time: 21:03 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken