Through the Bishop a partnership between us and the Mothers Union began with one goal. To provide education facilities for deaf teenagers in Kenya.
Two of us visited in september 2013 to get the lay of the land. Through many meetings, site visits and a lot of mobilisation on Bishop Masamba's part, the project began to take shape. We quickly discovered more people, outside the mothers union, who had been dreaming of a new secondary school for the deaf for quite some time.
A teacher named Joseck, whom we met at the school where he is currently deputy head in Nyeri, Central Province, was passionately hoping that another secondary school for the deaf would be built in Mbeere area. He was incredibly helpful in helping us to find information on what the facility should be like and as with all the people we met expressed his support for the project.
The local effort for the project had already started the weekend before we arrived. On the Sunday of that weekend the Mothers Union had managed to raise over £8000.00 towards the project. On top of this discussions about where the school would be built had already begun. During the first few days of our visit the governors of a primary school with a lot of land had given enough land for our project to be completed adjacent to their school. Bishop Moses and the Mothers Union also told us that people locally will donate stones and sand for the construction.
Since the visit Samantha Worrall (Professional Architect CPMG) and Malcolm Macnaughton (Trustee of the Peter Cowley Africa Trust) have got on board with the project. The brief for the schools design has also been drafted and this website created. We have gathered a team of volunteers who are doing all sorts of things from committing to coming out and building to designing posters and other media to advertise the project.
We are now pushing fundraising - we have almost completed the build for Phase One, having raised around £55k spread between around 30 volunteers. We now need to make 12,000 by December so that the school will be functional by January - term start time.Each fundraising volunteer will receive a fundraising pack that will help them to fundraise a minimum of £1500 each and work towards our collective goals for December and then for Phase Two next August. of £80000 for this summer.
If this sounds exciting then there are loads of ways you can get involved. These include coming to build with us in August (we are now recruiting - so spread the word to friends who may be interested!), running a fundraising event, doing a fundraising challenge or volunteering for one of our management teams - helping with funding procurement, administration, media or communications. Contact us or visit our 'get involved' page for more details.
Two of us visited in september 2013 to get the lay of the land. Through many meetings, site visits and a lot of mobilisation on Bishop Masamba's part, the project began to take shape. We quickly discovered more people, outside the mothers union, who had been dreaming of a new secondary school for the deaf for quite some time.
A teacher named Joseck, whom we met at the school where he is currently deputy head in Nyeri, Central Province, was passionately hoping that another secondary school for the deaf would be built in Mbeere area. He was incredibly helpful in helping us to find information on what the facility should be like and as with all the people we met expressed his support for the project.
The local effort for the project had already started the weekend before we arrived. On the Sunday of that weekend the Mothers Union had managed to raise over £8000.00 towards the project. On top of this discussions about where the school would be built had already begun. During the first few days of our visit the governors of a primary school with a lot of land had given enough land for our project to be completed adjacent to their school. Bishop Moses and the Mothers Union also told us that people locally will donate stones and sand for the construction.
Since the visit Samantha Worrall (Professional Architect CPMG) and Malcolm Macnaughton (Trustee of the Peter Cowley Africa Trust) have got on board with the project. The brief for the schools design has also been drafted and this website created. We have gathered a team of volunteers who are doing all sorts of things from committing to coming out and building to designing posters and other media to advertise the project.
We are now pushing fundraising - we have almost completed the build for Phase One, having raised around £55k spread between around 30 volunteers. We now need to make 12,000 by December so that the school will be functional by January - term start time.Each fundraising volunteer will receive a fundraising pack that will help them to fundraise a minimum of £1500 each and work towards our collective goals for December and then for Phase Two next August. of £80000 for this summer.
If this sounds exciting then there are loads of ways you can get involved. These include coming to build with us in August (we are now recruiting - so spread the word to friends who may be interested!), running a fundraising event, doing a fundraising challenge or volunteering for one of our management teams - helping with funding procurement, administration, media or communications. Contact us or visit our 'get involved' page for more details.
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