IAS is supporting Life Frontier School (LFS), which is located between the village of Madogo at Tana River and the town of Garissa in the North/Eastern province of Kenya. Pupils come from Garissa and Tana River districts. Apart from LFS, the area has very few schools.

Before the construction of LFS, all local schools were in very bad shape and many children received basically no education. The mark average was at such a low level that no children where admitted to more advanced studies. The area in this part of the country is desert and very dry. Most of the people are very poor and the majority of the children work as shepherds and guard their family’s goats and camels. In January 1998, the first two buildings were erected and 1-4 class started. Later the school expanded with a classroom for 5-8 class and a building for kindergarten.

At the end of 2003, there were a total of 221 pupils in primary school, 76 in pre-school, and 10 in secondary school. A daily hot meal is included in the school day. The present school site was formerly uncultivated land with herds of goats. Today, the school site has a fence, which protects the nice buildings with beautiful classrooms, a large dining hall, teachers’ facilities, exotic trees and flowers. The beauty of the place was recently enforced through the erection of a windmill that pumps water from a well.

IAS is arranging sponsors for the Life Frontier School. Due to extreme poverty some of the parents cannot afford to pay school fees and therefore receive the fees via the sponsorship arrangement. Other solutions have been to have some parents work at the school in place of school fees.

In co-operation with Free Pentecostal Fellowships in Nakuru, the Danish church ‘Betania Church Centre’ established a crisis centre in the slum of Nakuru. Basically the centre reaches out to street children, trying to assist them in various ways. A primary school education is offered to the children. They are also taught practical subjects, giving them a chance to get jobs as grown-ups. In addition, a boys home (New Life Boys House) and a girls home (New Life Girls House) is being run. The boys live together in projected circumstances. Likewise with the girls.