This was the first school we had the good fortune to work with in Kenya. It emerged as a possibility when we had made ourselves redundant in Tanzania and were still hoping to do some projects elsewhere.
Six strong boys from Fifth Year signed up to partner with a school in the South Rift Valley near Lake Natron. We were were based at Lale’enok Resource Centre in a wildlife conservation area where an old boy of Glenstal had worked. It provided camping accommodation for the ‘Kenya Crew’.
The school was supplied with €12,000 for renovation of school buildings; we also brought fourteen laptops, taught the children how to use them etc. But the most important part was the good relations struck between the young people.
All got back safe and sound, were amazed at how happy their African peers are though having so little. They have clearly adopted the Maasai proverb “He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony!”
