July 2015
We like to give our Rafiki volunteers some unique memories and things to think about when they return to their daily lives. Partly we do this by showing them how the money raised by Footsteps that is targeted towards infrastructure development makes an immediate difference to the lives of people in the communities where we work.
So this year we were delighted to be accompanied by the MP for the Nyakach constituency, Aduma Owour, in a special ceremony to break the ground at the start of the project to build a boys dormitory at the Magunga Secondary School.
An investment of around £28k is what it takes to provide a dormitory fit for human habitation for around 100 teenage boys. The benefits for those who stay in the facility include security and the ability to study longer hours giving them the best possible chance to make it to university.
Before this ground-breaking event took place, we showed the volunteers the existing facility, which left the boys, especially, feeling grateful that they had the fortune to be educated in Europe.
