Volunteer Teaching the deaf at a special school in Central Kenya

The school is located at Mukurue-ini division in Kenya’s Central Province.
Mukuru-ini is rich in indigenous tall green trees with rivers and a climate that switches between warm sunny and chilly misty patterns.
The school is as special as the community surrounding it. Started in 1988 with only ten hearing impaired boys, This was the first school of its kind, today, there are two others bringing the total number to just three in the whole country!
The school was later on integrated to accommodate girls and boys with hearing ability. It is today a geyser of knowledge to more than 200 students.
Though the school has achieved a lot through corporate sponsorships, a lot still stands to done to bring it any where near acceptable standards.

Computer tuition needed

Once placed, a volunteer could take on a number of activities the prime of the all being teaching. As for the medical or counseling experts, a schedule that would ensure time for consultation with students for either medication or inspirational discussion and advice could be arranged.
The school has enough room for games. Sports’ funs could therefore join the students on the field for a game of football, volleyball, netball or athletics. Those with skills in various games could take this opportunity to introduce and coach games of their interest.
Volunteers are welcome to get innovative and initiate useful programs (educational or economic) during their stay. At the start you will discuss with the organises a program of activities to suit the school using your skills to the best advantage.

The program would best suit any one who cares about any kind of deformity. If you can teach sign or already have in some way that would be an advantage. Many of the pupils are fully able. Those willing to volunteer in school should harbour an optimistic attitude that would leave the students and the entire Kenyan population with a positive mentality, one that will prove that disability is not inability.
The program would also suit groups of between two and six people who would like to fund raise and take on a project like painting, furnishing the classes using self made furniture, construction or purchase of special equipments for the deaf students.
Medical and any one working with deaf people or a deaf person who would like to teach can also take on this project.
Those who know sign language can use their skills to educate the children on issues like HIV/AIDS and pump self-esteem in them to enable to take on the future confidently.
Community workers looking for new challenges will find the school interesting.
The school’s location is rural hence those taking on the project must be prepared to live away from civilization. There is also a room full of donated computers with very little or old software, volunteers who are savvy with pcs could take the children for lessons and arrange a special schedule with the school.

The school has special rooms for volunteers. Inspire will provide enough foodstuff, bottled water and cooking gas to last through the placement duration. We also can arrange accommodation at a local host family where the volunteer can walk or get a bus into the school. Meals, drinks and private room would all be provided here.
Volunteers with laptops could carry them as teaching aides and entertainment. Electric power is available.

This placement would be perfect for anyone wishing to live and work in a set up with a mixture of able and disabled children, mostly to work with hearing impaired children.
It would also be perfect for groups of people who would life to initiate projects that would touch lives positively as they watch. Such groups could paint the school, repair broken furniture, re-do a leaking roof, or fix up the kitchen using better locally available materials.
Medical and education experts with experience with the deaf will also be of great help to the school. Its location is in a beautiful location surrounded by valleys of tea and coffee plantations, rivers and lush green bush. This school really does need volunteers with skills as it often gets forgotten by the outside world.

The school is situated 45 minutes away from Nyeri town, where it is possible to find all things modern – from Internet to pubs and five star safari clubs. Nairobi is a 3 hour drive on good roads away.
This part of the country has a beautiful topography that is well covered by tall and green trees that gives a perfect setting for bird watching, or evening walks.
For the adventurous, Mt Kenya is only an hour away, thus an attempt to climb to any of its three peaks would be a fulfilling move.
One could also visit the Aberdares National Park – home to some of the biggest rhinos in the world. The park is also rich in bird life and those wishing to have a glimpse of some of Africa’s cats are likely to have their wishes fulfilled. Aberdare's is less visited by tourists so you can often enjoy seeing wildlife alone. Lastly you could take a couple of days out to visit Nakuru national park. A bird lovers paradise. Here you can see the world famous flamingos, over one million of them! A world class spectacle.

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