The project has the advantage of embracing several target groups and beneficiaries. The main target is the disabled children at the Makobe school. A second target is the school as a public institution. The inhabitants in the local community where the school is situated are key beneficiaries. This reaches 300-350 families with some 2 500 members. Some of the benefits of the project could reach out to a much wider area with a bigger population. Other key features of the project is that it involves some of the most vulnerable people in the Kenyan society, focuses on strategic environmental issues like safe water and renewable energy and environmental protection.

The proposed activities are very suitable for entrepreneurship and small scale business initiatives. The project has the advantage of consisting of three distinctive sub-project that allows for a flexible design and implementation. The Makobe local community is very enthusiastic to the perspectives of linking the school to any business development project. This includes local political leaders and government staff, school administrators and teachers, students and parents. The project has a strong back-up from expatriates and national citizens residing in Mombassa, one hour way from the project area.

Makobe Primary School is the main primary school in the Makobe location, Kwale district, Eastern Province, Kenya. It teaches at level P1-P8. In 2002 the school was completed with a special unit for disabled children with the aim of giving these children a chance to get proper education including the strive to, step by step, integrate them into the general schooling activities. The school population is 280 students of which 30 disabled. Besides the specific education features of MSD, some infrastructures are under construction that will facilitate the schooling of the disabled children. A workshop for vocational training is under construction. A dormitory for girls is about to open in order to give more children the access to training by accommodation them at the school. A technical institute is located next to Makobe Primary. The Makobe location has a population of around 2 500 people, which means 300-350 families. This is the main target group for the activities with impact on the local community.

Installation of solar energy that covers most of the demand for electricity at the school should, once again, improve the training conditions for specifically the MSD. Small scale business activities could emerge, e g charging of mobile phones and use of electrical sewing machines. An appropriate solar power installation should also benefit the local community and serve as an example for similar institutions.