How Brookhouse ‘service-learning’ program has transformed rural school

Mwende Mumo, a standard eight pupil at Mithanga Primary School at the school library. [Erastus Mulwa/Standard]

The two institutions stand miles apart, further distinguished by social status and fortunes surrounding the learners therein.

Despite the differences, there is a bond between Nairobi’s Brookhouse School and Mithanga Primary School pupils in the interior of Mwala, Machakos County.