Community life at Kachebere is holistic in that students have to engage in various activities for the service of the community. We live in a world where the aspect of manual work is undermined or taken to be for poor people. But in reality, manual work defines the dignity of a human person. Our students at Kachebere are also trained to engage in community service, such as manual work, to sustain themselves with a constant supply of fruits like bananas.

Pope St. John Paul II fundamentally elevated the dignity of manual work. Grounding his teachings in personal experience as a stone-cutter and chemical factory labourer, he emphasized that physical labor is a supreme expression of human dignity, allowing humanity to participate in God’s ongoing creation.

Ref: Laborem Exercens (14 September 1981)