Rural Service Programme Service Project

July 8 – July 12

Rural Service Programme is a cooperative community development project of Kenyan Friends to address agricultural sustainability, poverty alleviation, empowerment of marginalized peoples, water and sanitation, and climate change. Participants in this excursion will help construct two mud-and-wattle houses for impoverished widows and will visit the sewing groups that help these widows earn a living. The group will worship in a local Friends church on Sunday morning. This is a hands-on experience, suitable for families with children.

Participants will depart from the Triennial venue in Nakuru after lunch on Saturday, July 8. The trip will end on July 12 with transportation to Nairobi, arriving in the late afternoon. The earliest that you should plan to fly out of Nairobi is on a late-evening flight on July 12.

Cost: $480
Includes airfare from Kisumu to Nairobi, and four nights stay at Friends Theological College.
Lodging: On the campus of Friends Theological College in Kaimosi. Accommodations will be in simple but clean dormitories, with mosquito nets, hot water, and flush toilets.
Leaders: Karen Bauer (Iowa YM) and the Rural Service Programme staff team.

Minimum/maximum number of participants: Minimum ten adult participants. Maximum twenty adult participants.

Learn more about Rural Service Programme here: http://ruralserviceprogramme.blogspot.com/. Read about the founding of Kuwesa, RSP’s sewing project: https://kuwesa.wordpress.com/ and https://www.friendsjournal.org/new-paths-in-later-life/.