Description
The project promotes quality education and health and preventive care for residents in rural western Kenya, on the isolated Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, with a total population of around 30,000. The project is a continuation of the construction of a boarding secondary school, which began in 2015. Currently first two classes with a dormitory for first 60 students are under construction, the completion is scheduled for 9/2016. The project involves the construction of an additional 2 classes and a dormitory for another 60 students, after the completion the new secondary school will have in total 4 classes with dormitory for total 120 students. New secondary school will ensure the continuation of education in the existing primary school and nurcery. It will focus on new IT technologies, practical skills and qualifications will focus in agriculture and fish farming. The school will be part of a complex project - the existing community center, which is gradually expanding since 2005 and which we are successfully operating, providing daily education for 400 children. The second part of the project is the provision of health and preventive care for the residents of the island in the existing health center as a continuation of the ongoing project with a special emphasis on children and mothers, and patients with HIV/AIDS, TB, target group consists of about 15,000 people, about one half of the population of Rusinga Island.