KULE , a CAS activity at Pearson College UWC offers support to Mukangu Village in Murang’a, Kenya. It’s mission is to promote international and cultural understanding through partnerships that address key global issues such as health, education, the environment, and poverty eradication. The project aims to contribute to the development and empowerment of the student beyond the IB academic program.
KULE Foundation International is a non-profit organization registered in Canada under the British Columbia Societies Act. It is also registered in Kenya as an NGO. Its founder is Geoffrey Tindyebwa, a Ugandan educator who previously taught at Kahuhia Girls High School in Murang’a and St Mary’s School, Nairobi. He has taught at Pearson College UWC since 1995.
UWC mission-aligned, it seeks to promote international education outside the classroom and across borders. Therefore, KULE partners with Kenyan rural community groups to raise the quality of life. For Pearson students, the KULE experience may culminate in a trip to Mukangu village in Murang’a to take part in a development project. The current projects include building a nursery/primary school in a remote part of the village, supporting an orphanage KULE helped to rehabilitate some years ago, and ‘volunteering’ in a care center for children at risk and the elderly.