The Project started from humble beginnings in February 2000 when Tony Coren, a UK national, first visited Gategi village by invitation of Winnie Benson of the Muema family, to repair an old cracked cement rainwater tank at Gategi Primary School. Tony was then hosted by Manase Muema and Monica Nguti and their three sons in their home in Kakindu for a period of 10 years. From these beginnings, the Project has expanded organically, pragmatically, and geographically, to include a number of other programs: constructions and renovation of Primary Schools; provision of rain tanks and gutters; digging earth dams to trap seasonal water run-offs; tree growing and distribution; helping the community to access health care.

Other programs include tree plots for schools; schools and college bursaries; groups income generation; educational seminars and workshops; annual sports tournament and cultural festival for the youth; ICT packages; humanitarian interventions i.e. emergency feeding programs and construction of simple houses for needy homeless families.Ten programs in all.

From just the one village (Gategi), the Project has geographically expanded to serve a large number of schools and communities, over an estimated area of 400sq km in Gategi Sub Location and Makima-Scheme area, including the large adjacent area of undemarcated land known locally as Ngwata or the scheme, where four generations of landless families have settled and farmed, building schools (where the Project has assisted), churches, markets, dams, tree plots, and setting up an informal system of land ownership and leasing.

The population of the area now covered by the Project, was estimated in the Government census of 2019, at 51,408, of which number, the Project has, by our estimations, directly and indirectly impacted on about half. Since then the population is very likely to have grown due to the demographics, with many young people settling in the scheme.