RUSH stands for Reaching the Unreached through Self-Help. We are a Registered Charity set-up to reach the under-privileged and suffering people within the local community of Kakamega, a town in the Western Province of Kenya close to Lake Victoria (see map).

RUSH UK is working along with 800 community members and about 200 orphans and vulnerable children. Since our birth in 2001, we have been involved in many social projects, currently numbering 12, in a variety of areas from a choir to an urban-rural migration project. See the projects page for more information.

Our aims for the future involve:

• Alleviating poverty in the community by at least 50%.
• Expanding the carpentry and tailoring to accommodate more boys and girls.
• Building RUSH academy up to a high level and producing a well-educated and informed community.
• Reducing the HIV/AIDS rate from 13% to 5% by teaching.
• Training and support the community to be self-supportive in future.
• Providing computer lessons both in a college and in RUSH academy.
• Training the community in the methods of practising agriculture on their farms.
• Training women on business issues and accounting.
• Promoting our youth through a 'youth-parent' programme on the issues related to HIV/AIDS, human security in the community and reproductive health.

The purpose of this website is to promote and provide information about RUSH and our many activities within the community.

It all started in 2003 with 25 boys who were interested in football and had by 2005 had increased to 40. These boys were mostly street children or from underpriviledged families and those who did not finish education. These were the first under 14 teams.

There are currently just over 300 children attending the academy - 98 of whom are orphaned or are particularly underprivileged and require sponsorship.