The charity supports a range of community projects that offer opportunities to those young people who do not get a college place. The projects help young people use their skills and passions to develop small businesses within Namuncha.

If you finish secondary school in Namuncha and you do not have a college place or the money to pay for it yourself, your choices are limited. For young men, that means harvesting sand or following the livestock. For young women, that means marriage and making a home. 

In recent years, the Kenyan government has started to offer places at crafts and technical colleges. However, this is usually in a town quite far from Namuncha and the young men and women must be able to pay the fees. 

The aim of these community projects is to understand the need for and support the development of local businesses that could be established using local people and resources.  All the projects come from needs expressed by the community in consultation with the charity.

All young people involved in these projects attend a workshop on how to set up and run a small business. This workshop is supported by young man from Namuncha who recently graduated from Nairobi University with a degree in economics and business. He now works as the accountant at the Namuncha Compassion International Centre. 

Young men and women who attend these workshops hope to run their own business or to run the administrative side of a small, local business.

Currently established projects are: 

• commercial crop growing 
• dry stone walling 
• motorcycle maintenance and repair workshop
• running a small business

Planned for the future are:

•  hairdressing and beauty salon
• weaving

With your help, we can support these and many more post-secondary educational projects to make sure that the skills and passions of the young people of Namuncha benefit the local community.