This project is the heart of the vocational school project. It will get the students out of a windowless, doorless, iron sheet structure into a permanent building in rural Chepkanga, NW Kenya. In this 1st brick workshop, the masonry students will produce the bricks to build their future school.This in turn will allow vocational training of more youth devoid of skills and without opportunity for education or employment. The bricks are slated to become an income generating business for the school.
This workshop aims to get the permanent vocational school structure build. The masonry students will get on-the-job training and help make the interlocking mud bricks to build the new building. This project will get the current 104 trainees out of the corrugated iron sheet structure and encourage the mass of marginalized youths in the area to seek skills and education beyond primary level. "I am seeing a wonderful goal, a future, ahead of me", writes Agneta, age 23.
We will provide the location with a decent and permanent school for the youth, inexistent so far. Lack of sponsorship and absence of investment has prevented the community from helping the rural disenfranchised youths so far. The brick workshop will be the FIRST building of the school to come to life and will showcase our aims: to give training and housing to 200 youths per year and enable them, through skills certification to become self-reliant.
The education of 200 teens and young adults per year in a landmark school will enable these youths to break the cycle of poverty in their homes, provide for their families at large and uplift the standards of living in the community.This will moreover directly contribute to decreasing ethnic strife and conflict. The youth bulge in Kenya combined with the recent 2008 post-electoral violence makes technical training a priority for empowerment and peaceful living.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
