Welcome to Lambwe Christian School

Lambwe Christian School For The Deaf is located in the remote village of Ogongo on the road from Homa Bay to Mbita in the far west of the country. Both towns are on Lake Victoria but Ogongo has no access to it and an international agreement precludes water being taken from the lake as it is the source of the White Nile which feeds the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. Certain needs of the school are funded by Siloam Christian Ministries.

Lambwe Christian School For The Deaf was started by a local magistrate Mzee Enoch Aloo Okach who had retired from the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1988, he gathered together some deaf boys whom he noticed wandering around the village and attempted to educate them. In 1992, the school was established as a unit for deaf children at Lambwe Primary School. The buildings were extremely dilapidated and there were no means to feed the children. Enoch had previously worked for the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture under a Mr Kroll and subsequently met Mrs Nelda Kroll in Nairobi where they attended the same church. Nelda was concerned to help children and she had taken several street boys under her wing and taught them practical skills so that they could earn a meagre living. Her knack for getting things done had already shown itself in the initiation and leadership of the first multiracial school in Kenya.

Nelda visited the school at the invitation of Mr. Aloo and was appalled by the situation. On her return to Nairobi, she lobbied the Kenya Society for Deaf Children for funds to renovate a classroom to be used by these children. Subsequently, the deaf children had the best classroom in the school!

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