[3] Student volunteers, known as Project Workers, spend ten weeks during their summer vacation living, either in a pair or trio, in a rural community in Kenya or Uganda.
[5] These might include investing in sustainable resources, such as library books, science equipment and small infrastructure projects, helping with school management issues, and setting up co-curricular activities.
The schools tend to be of medium size, in very rural locations, and to be short of resources, but with the potential to improve.
Any school meeting the basic criteria can apply and most will receive a visit during the summer to assess their eligibility.
Because it is run entirely by volunteers the vast majority of this annual turnover is spent directly on its East Africa operations.
In the early 1990s a group of Cambridge University students began teaching in a school in the Kisii area of Western Kenya.