Construction Work Team

2006 – Moving Mountains started training many of the young unemployed people in the slum areas of Muthurwa and Shauri Moyo, Nairobi.

2010 – The members of the ‘Moving Mountains Work Team’ register as a local ‘Youth Group’ and open their doors to applications for new young adults to join them and develop their skills under the guidance of Kioni and the staff of Moving Mountains Kenya.

2012 – The Work Team participated in a training workshop in Interlocking Brick Technology delivered by the Government of Kenya Prisons Service at Gatwe Primary School in Embu.

Present-day – The Work Team continue to be employed on all of our construction and renovation projects in Kenya and Tanzania and support Kioni with the management of Moving Mountains projects. As projects continue to be developed in more and more parts of East Africa the team developed into sub-groups to specialise in specific areas.

All volunteer groups and supporters working with Moving Mountains on projects have contributed to supporting the development of the Moving Mountains Kenya ‘Construction Work Team’ programme.

There are currently six full-time members of the team who all have years of experience and training, and head up smaller sub-groups working in specific areas of Kenya. John Akibare manages all our projects in the Solio Community, Benson Mureithi manages operations in Naro Moru, Julius Macharia looks after all the projects in Embu, Alex Gathee and Ibrahim Ali deal with our extensive work in rural Western Kenya and Edwin Kimani is in charge of our development projects in Tanzania.

If you are an architect, builder, carpenter, joiner, electrician or just someone who would like to get your hands dirty, join our Work Team on one of our construction and renovation projects throughout Kenya or Tanzania. There are always small projects which you can help to fundraise for and then go out and work with our team to see it finished.

Even if you are limited on experience you’ll find that there is nothing that you cannot get stuck in with and the ‘Construction Work Team’ will teach you everything that you need to know, from digging foundations to laying bricks and plastering to the finishing touches, painting, putting in fixtures and fittings and doors and windows.

An international development project will get you off the beaten track in Kenya, working on relevant and hands-on projects that have been assessed and chosen by our full-time staff and agreed with local communities.

We strongly believe in giving people skills and then wings to go and manage their own business or social enterprise. Our plan is to continue providing students with vocational training and skills courses to help them do that, while at the same time using the charity to provide a constant opportunity for work experience and contracts.