This is a new project for a large school in the eastern province town of Embu with 700 children. We have started a long term plan to renovate each of the 12 classrooms, repair the water system, provide desks and chairs and teaching aids, and providing a library. We also want to provide a special learning facility on-site. This is a 5 year plan.
So far the work and funding has been carried out Africamp Expeditions and one of our donors Mr Chris Wilde. There is lots of potential here for future groups and donors.



2008 plan:
Africamp team in July to renovate a further three classrooms.
Chris Wilde donating money for another classroom and refurbishment of a water tank

Embu County Primary School motto

This primary school has had a number of classrooms renovated by Africamp Expeditions and wellwishers including a group of nurses from Southampton General Hospital, and recently Mary McGing of Galway.
One of the classrooms is specifically for the use of special needs children.

Continued funding comes from Adventure Alternative teachers and volunteers at the orphanage, since all the kids who we support there come to this school for their education (it is just across the road from Ulamba Orphanage).

Our long term plan is to provide a library facility and supply exercise books and teaching aids to the committee.

Inside one of the refurbished classrooms, ready for desks and chairs

This has been the latest school to receive funding from MM in the Western Kenya region. Africamp Expeditions have ensure that the school has received almost a completely new set of classrooms and a bore hole.

Kumuok was a very old school with almost no facilities, deprived on any income and on the verge of collapse. Children and teachers were demotivated and academic performance was very low.

The project to rebuild all the classrooms took only one month and it has become a community attraction, not least because of the fresh water that it provides from the bore hole. Children rush to school now and teachers are greatly enthused to do thier job well.

Our future plans here include refurbishment of the remaining two classroom blocks, provision of a library and assistance with sports equipment and books.

This is where Moving Mountains began in 1991 when Gavin came here and started helping individual kids to get an education, including Kelly Kioko who is now a Trustee of the NGO in Kenya. Over the years one could count in the hundreds the number of children who have sat in these classrooms and started to build a future for themselves.

Many Africamp Expeditions have worked here and supplied everything from toilet blocks to classrooms to a new roof, sports fields, a basketball court, a library, a kitchen, crop garden, nursery block and countless number of books, several computers, sports equipment and container loads of teaching aids.

Muthurwa is one of the larger Government schools in the Nairobi area in a huge slum area known as Gikomba. It has a catchment area of some of the poorest families in the country. Classes commonly number 50+. Adventure Alternative has sent dozens of teachers and classroom assistants here over the years and the company donations from these people has funded many school lunches for the six hundred kids who are educated here.

The building of the kitchen was done to the specifications of the World Food Programme, and we have been running a feeding programme there for the past three years. Most recently however the WFP has taken over this responsibility and we can now leave it up to them.


The ex-headteacher of Muthurwa School, Mrs Sara Kinyuthia, is now retired and works part time for Moving Mountains as our educational advisor.

Muthurwa is a very busy school and we are always doing maintenance jobs and work there. Any individual donor could come and find a multitude of projects at this school, as well as work for a term as a teacher.

Another in our group of schools which we support in the Western Region, as part of our overall plan to bring education to thousands of children in this poor and very undeveloped part of Kenya.

Granaghan Parish Church in Northern Ireland has put in a lot of effort here, bringing a group over in 2006 to carry out the work itself and raising the funds. They also support a teacher in the school.

Continued funding has come from the Africamp Expeditions and the Adventure Alternative teaching students. Every student who applies, means that the company makes a donation to the school enabling it to develop itself in the future.

Beforehand the school languished at the bottom of the regional academic performance tables (around 49th), but in the last year since this refurbishment the school has shot up to 4th. Facilities and books and a motivated workforce of teachers has meant that Nyasidhi is now a model school and competes well with private institutions.

In future we would like to put in a library.

This was the first school we started working with in Western Kenya, five years ago now. It has been a complete success story. All the classrooms have been renovated and the grounds made beautiful. The sports field is used, and the classrooms are fully stocked with desks and chairs. This work has been done by successive Africamp Expeditions but also from money from teaching students from Adventure Alternative. The school committee has really used this money well.

Wagai is a great example of how MM has managed to create self-sufficiency and autonomy with the local people. we put in the initial capital money and provided the people to do the big job of renovating the classrooms and making the place into a real school.

Adventure Alternative then provided a donation for every teacher and classroom assistant who applied for a Gap Teaching placement. These donations mounted quickly, enabling the school committee to run a development fund which they built up over four years. This money has been enough for them to buy books, teaching aids, and a multitude of other needs to make Wagai one of the very best schools in the whole of Western Kenya. Thus AA, the company, has given the school the chance to manage its own success story and we remain on hand to offer advice and encouragement.

We are about to initiate our library scheme at Wagai,thanks to Australian medical student Sarah Wallis and a donation from the Australian High Commission Direct Aid Scheme. Secure book cupboards will be installed in a designated classroom to be used as a reading room for children. This worked very well in Muthurwa in Nairobi and it means that any future visitors can simply donate books to Wagai. In a few years there will hopefully be thousands of books. This template is one we will use for all the schools we support in the region.

This is the oldest school in the region and was in a complete state of disrepair and neglect before we came. Since we took the work on three years ago both the primary and secondary sections have been renovated with beautiful new classrooms and facilities.

Our help has come from Granaghan Parish Council in Northern Ireland, a teacher called Daniel Wright who worked here for three months on one of our placements and another teacher called Maria Campbell who brought a large school group in 2007. Between the three donors we have structured a complete programme that has turned Wagwer into a huge success story.

In the future we wish to renovate the last of the old blocks in the primary section and put in a boarding block at the secondary section. It is our intention to put all the children we support at secondary level into this one school which will greatly reduce our transport bill for school runs during every term.

We also plan to put in a library and invest in some sports equipment for Wagwer.