Construction of the Community Center: Changing Lives

Construction is in its final stages for the Mwanzo community center. Right now, workers are installing a ramp, helping make the center accessible for all.

When completed, the community center will house a daycare, a health services room, a computer lab and internet café with fax and copy services, a multi-purpose room, and a library, as well as a science lab and room for boarding students. 

We are excited about the ways this building will bring new opportunities for people in the Rabuor area when completed. In the meantime, the construction on the site provides meaningful work, the opportunity to learn and practice skills, and wages for people in and around Rabuor. At Mwanzo we train the next generation. 

Here are just a few of those stories of opportunity:

Mr. Angungo has been in charge of plumbing at the project. Throughout the work, he has been able to offer opportunities to trainees who come from the neighboring village polytechnics so that they can sharpen their skills. He is also mentoring five local boys to take up the job when his time will finally come to retire. 

Ms. Adhiambo is a single mother of 4 boys. She prepares and sells food to the laborers on site. The profit that she gets supports her boys who are learning at Mwanzo.

Mr. Otwoma painted the interior of the school when it was built and is now painting the community center. He has hired several young apprentices from surrounding villages, and they are learning new skills for a lifelong career. 

Mr. Hono was selling drugs, before he found work at Mwanzo in 2015 during the construction of the school, where he was trained in masonry work. This last year he led the team plastering the external walls of the community center.

Mr. Lango, the electrician on the project, began working as a manual laborer. While working at the site, he became interested in electrical wiring, and registered for a certificate course. Today, he is an accredited electrician. He is full of gratitude for the opportunity he got while working at Mwanzo. He also has young men at the project that he is training to be electricians. Mwanzo has given him hope in life and a paying career.

Even before it is finished, the community center is changing lives and helping create new futures.

Workers constructing a ramp at the Mwanzo community center.