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Children Feeding Program;
Children at the Center
One of the most wonderful
opportunities that work in
children orphanage can give
you is the chance to share
your love and skills with
poor orphaned children. Many
volunteers have deemed the
work life changing. By
offering attention and love
to children, you are making
a real difference in the
life of a young person.
Whether you have a
background in childcare or
simply enjoy sharing love
with kids, a smile can offer
something meaningful to the
life of kids deprived of
love and care.
As a volunteer, you can help
care for children in
orphanages. Children are an
integral part of all
societies around the world
and providing adequate care
for them is an important
part of everyday life. As an
international volunteer this
type of placement provides
an opportunity for active
hands-on work as well as a
unique cultural exchange
opportunity. Many orphanages
are community initiated and
operated by local community
members. Often government
support and staff are
minimal; therefore the
institutions are not
provided with the necessary
resources to optimize the
children care. The
orphanages rely upon
volunteers to support their
long-term sustainable
initiatives through simple
tasks and creative energy.
Sharing your time with the
children, you will be
offering them the family
love which they have not
been privileged with, you
will be presenting to them a
reason to live as normal as
you and us.
You may be assisting with
daily routines helping cook
and feed the children,
playing with them, and
devising games for their
leisure after school and on
weekends. Through all that
you do, the individual
attention and love that you
give the children will last
in their memories for a
lifetime. The single most
important factor in the
development of young
children is relationships
with caring adults. Whether
you have a background in
childcare or simply enjoy
caring for young children, a
smile or hug can be a
meaningful and long-term
contribution.
In addition, the dialogue
and interaction with local
staff provides a rare
opportunity for you to share
ideas with them and build
morale. The most important
attributes needed for these
placements are an open heart
and a love for spending time
with children. In some
placements you will quickly
pick up on the daily routine
while in others you may need
to be more creative in
coming up with ideas.
Description – Kenya
Voluntary and Community
Development Project
Activity/Tour
The initiation for orphan’s
children program grew out as
a result of an increase in
the number of orphans in the
villages the pathetic living
condition due to lack of
support once they loose
their parents. The
organization therefore
identified, as a priority to
start a child care program
center to cater for the
orphans and the vulnerable
children from the 3 yrs to
12 yrs.
Supporting these children
has been a great challenge
and volunteers have lent an
upper hand with the aim of
creating opportunities where
unprivileged children can
have equal opportunity to
grow.
Most of the time volunteers
will be teaching English and
assisting the kids with
creative activities such as
painting, drawing and
dancing.
In addition to this,
volunteers help in the
kitchen preparing meals, and
washing dishes and clothes.
volunteers story telling
skills will be put to good
use inspiring and motivating
the children. In
collaboration with other
local partners, together in
one spirit, and with your
kind assistance, let us
revive their hope by
providing a healthy
environment for a meaningful
future life.
Your program begins upon
arrival in Nairobi with a
comprehensive orientation
facilitated by our volunteer
coordinator briefing
volunteers a head of their
participation to prepare
them for any anticipated
challenges. But if you
decided to go directly to
the placement, your
orientation will be done at
the placement by our
supervisor with the help of
other experts at the host
community level.
Age
range, type of group
family, couples, singles,
youth and groups
Policies & Restrictions
Must be 18 yrs and over
*have a positive attitude
*Be ready to adopt the
living conditions in the
village
*English speaking
Volunteer’s responsibilities
•Helping the children in
conversational English and
assignments.
•Supervise the children to
clean up and dress up.
•Supervise their studies and
assignments.
•Share their food; sit by
them to see them eat.
•Prepare them for schools,
check their dresses.
•Design, teach, organize and
play games (educational and
environmental).
Program Objectives
•To offer support, care and
family for the orphans and
vulnerable.
•To develop their mental and
moral sense of belonging and
responsibility.
•To create a platform for
volunteers mentor the
children and offer them
cross cultural exposure.
Program Duration and
Dates.
Program is opened to
volunteers all year round.
Volunteers can spend from
two weeks onwards on the
program.
Airport Pick up/Orientation
Volunteers will be picked up
from the airport and
transferred to their places
of stay upon arrival. The
pre-departure information to
the placement and program is
done to offer volunteers a
clear picture and
sensitivities of the people
in the community of work.
Orientation is at the
placement including basic
local language, syllabus and
how to go about things in
the community in terms of
transport, food, water,
socialization, etc.
Who can volunteer in
children program in
orphanages? Anybody can
volunteer in this program as
long as you are 18 years or
more. It is regardless of
your profession, skill or
experience. You can
volunteer as a team or an
individual. You should
understand that you will not
do anything that may
stigmatize any of the people
you meet in the course of
your work. You need to have
an open mind and a willing
heart.
How will a volunteer see
his/her contribution after
the program?
•You will see how valuable
your love has been shared
among the children.
•You will realize how
important the knowledge you
have about care or
recreation, no matter how
little, has been in the
creation of joy and hope for
many young ones.
•Your contribution to the
development of the children
will be well counted years
to come.
How will you benefit from
volunteering in this
program?
•You would discover more of
yourself.
•You would have gotten for
yourself more love.
•Your experience and
understanding for children
will grow.
•It shall be a great holiday
break in an environment of
pure love.
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HIV/AIDS Program
Due to poverty syndrome that
has escalated the nation,
people often avoid attending
health facilities because
they don’t have something to
pay from their own pockets
and because of this reason,
most of the people encounter
premature death as a result
of depression and inability
to take care of themselves.
The impact of HIV/AIDS is
deepening and getting worse
as the economy continues to
deteroriate. The need for
action to effectively
control, manage, provide
support for those affected
by the disease and prevent
its further spread is
urgent.
This is an excellent
opportunity for volunteers
to care for people with
HIV/AIDS. Volunteers work at
special clinics for HIV/AIDS
patients providing care and
support and directly with
local community based
organization providing
support, counseling and
programs for those
unfortunate enough to be
infected. As a volunteer you
can help the casualties
suffering from opportunistic
diseases to reverse the
quality of life in many
communities. There is a lot
to learn and experience
working on these projects.
Most of the persons living
with HIV/AIDS receive care
from the relatives mostly
children of the patients at
their own homes. We all as
human beings have
responsibilities for one
another.
Volunteer’s responsibilities
•You offer care and support
for HIV/AIDS infected and
affected children and
people.
•Volunteer’s intervention is
required and very welcomed
to help care for the
patients who have often been
left out of the social
circle due to their
condition.
•Engage in educational and
training activities meant to
increase awareness and stop
the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in
the Kenyan communities.
•Assist in vocational
training for the HIV
infected persons who have
either lost their jobs or
unemployed
•Home and school visitation
for the children who are
rendered Orphans or
vulnerable due to the direct
and indirect effect of the
HIV/AIDS on them.
•Other activities set out by
the community based
organization shall be among
your responsibilities
Organizations who work on
the HIV/AIDS problem have
established different
community outreach programs
such as hospital care,
recreational and educational
programs, voluntary
counseling and testing, and
educational seminars and
conferences on the virus
within the local community.
Program Objectives.
•To offer education,
sensitization, care and
support for affected and
infected people.
•To offer a peer education,
educational campaign and
awareness for the youth on
the preventive measures and
dangers of the disease.
•To expand the volunteer’s
knowledge on the dangers and
socio-economic problems
associated with HIV/AIDS so
there can be an increasing
global action and awareness.
•To promote greater
community residents
participatory role and the
sense of responsibility for
development projects to
boost maintenance and
sustainability of such
projects.
•To promote friendliness
between volunteers’
community and that of the
beneficiary communities.
•To offer volunteers deeper
understanding and experience
of other cultures and
economies.
Program Duration and
Dates
The HIV/AIDS Program is
opened to volunteers all
year round. Volunteers can
spend a minimum of two weeks
to one year on the program.
Airport Pick up/Orientation
Volunteers will be picked up
from the airport and
transferred to their places
of stay upon arrival. The
pre-departure information to
the placement and program is
done to offer volunteers a
clear picture and
sensitivities of the people
in the community of work.
Orientation is at the
placement including basic
local language, syllabus and
how to go about things in
the community in terms of
transport, food, water,
socialization, etc.
Who can volunteer in
HIV/AIDS Program?
This program is open to
anyone who wants to share
their love, time and
compassion with the HIV/AIDS
patients. There are no
specific qualifications
required, however you should
understand that you will not
do anything that may
stigmatize any of the people
you meet in the course of
your work. You need to have
an open mind and a willing
heart.
How can a volunteer
instantly identify his
contributions after
participation?
•Life will be better for
those infected with HIV/AIDS
as you attend to them with
love and care they do not
get from their family and
friends, by this you will
see yourself become a friend
to someone few people
understand and smile with.
•Family and friends shall
gain a better understanding
of the disease or problem
and what is required of them
for the affected person.
•Tears will be shed during
your departure by those you
are leaving behind having
developed a passion and such
a great joy felt by the
affected persons during your
participation and your work,
love and commitment. Such a
great love you have brought
to someone in need.
•There will be a greater
awareness of the disease or
problems in the work
community, especially among
the students and youth to be
approached with educational
programs.
How will you benefit from
volunteering in this
program?
•You will be proud of
yourself for positively
affecting someone’s life in
your own means to change.
•You will discover more
about yourself to and what
you are capable of doing on
your own which will
definitely help you in
making many vital decisions
like your future career etc.
•You will experience a true
and pure culture of a
different kind in different
communities.
•You will enhance on your
knowledge on life, society,
care the HIV/AIDS disease
and its effect on people.
•It shall be such a great
adventure and experience of
a life time.
•Opportunity to make friends
with people from different
background.
•An opportunity to acquire
knowledge for educating your
peers back home about the
disease.
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Teaching in Local Schools
We have a variety of
programs that educate both
children and youth in
various capacities. Access
to education changes life of
Kenya children and it allows
them to break the vicious
cycle of poverty they would
otherwise be destined for.
Through education they can
gain valuable skills that
can further also in
development of the community
and themselves. Volunteers
teach in public schools in a
variety of subjects areas
e.g. science, math and
English. Volunteers must be
native English speakers,
have a good command in oral
and spoken English, be
flexible, patient and
passion and love for
teaching and cross cultural
experience.
This is a very good
opportunity for volunteer
interns with an educational
background to gain some
experience in their desired
profession. These schools
are in the remote villages
and urban areas experiencing
shortage of qualified
teachers who are unable to
handle the overwhelming
number of students in a
single class. This has
called for a great need of
volunteers who can speak and
write English to assist
these communities.
Volunteers shall teach Basic
English science and
mathematics, others may
include sex and reproductive
education, Socio-economical
and psychological
empowerment, games and
physical education. No
qualifications are needed to
be a volunteer teacher. If
you can read and write and
is 18 years and over, you
are qualified to volunteer
as a teacher.
Volunteers will handle
students with the age
between 10-15 years in
primary schools and students
between 15 to 18 years in
secondary schools depending
on the class. The role of
the volunteer goes far
beyond assisting teaching.
Children are attracted to
school by the presence of
volunteers and your presence
also is a proven moral
booster for parents and the
limited teachers as well as
a great inspiration for
students.
Volunteer’s
responsibilities
•Prepare lesson notes.
•Organize learning
materials.
•Develop a teaching method.
•Teach classes through
lecturing, discussions and
demonstration.
•Discuss output and methods
with fellow teachers and
supervisor.
•Access the performance of
the students through work
assignments etc.
•Organize recreational games
with students.
Program objectives
• First to help us encourage
the children to come to
school, keep them in the
classrooms and have the
interest in learning.
•To compliment the effort of
the teachers to offer proper
education to all to fight
poverty, crime and
dependency within the
community.
•To help the deprived
acquire better and
competitive education to
pursue further studies and
jobs.
•To enable the Organization
identify brilliant but needy
students in such communities
through the reports of
volunteers and help offer
scholarships for further
studies.
•To encourage the children
and their parents to love
school. Due to the lack of
teachers, students’
performance has been nothing
to help them pursue further
studies or some other jobs.
After the primary education,
they end up in the same old
form of sustenance so the
parents and even the youth
see school attendance as a
waste of time and choose to
drop out. By offering
volunteers into these
communities, lack of
teachers will be managed
whiles quality education
shall be offered these
children.
•To promote culture exchange
that will take place between
the volunteers and the
residents of the
communities/villages in
which differing ideas,
abilities, backgrounds and
needs are fostered and
valued, and where those with
diverse backgrounds and
experiences are able to
participate and contribute
towards development.
•To create inter
relationship between
volunteers and that of the
communities deprived but
rich in culture.
•To offer the volunteer an
opportunity to make a
positive contribution into
the lives of a disadvantaged
to satisfy his/her social
conscience.
•To enable KVCDP receive
proper problem assessment of
the villages/communities to
further enable us direct the
right programs into the
communities.
Program Duration and
Dates.
The teaching Program is
opened to volunteers all
year round except in the
months of April, August and
December when the schools
remain closed for holidays.
Volunteers can spend a
minimum of two weeks to one
year on the program.
Airport Pick
up/Orientation.
Volunteers will be picked up
from the airport and
transferred to their places
of stay upon arrival. The
pre-departure information to
the placement and program is
done to offer volunteers a
clear picture and
sensitivities of the people
in the community of work.
Orientation is at the
placement including basic
local language, syllabus and
how to go about things in
the community in terms of
transport, food, water,
socialization, etc.
Who can volunteer in
Teaching Program in Kenya?
A volunteer in this program
can be anyone at the age of
18 years and above
regardless of your
profession, skill or
experience. All you need is
the will to contribute to
the lives of these
communities. We accept group
volunteers or an individual.
Not only is your
participation on your
project of great help to the
local communities, but so is
the boost to the local
economy that volunteers
creates while they are
visiting.
Volunteer benefits.
•You will be proud of
yourself for positively
affecting someone’s life in
your own means to change.
•You will discover more
about yourself to and what
you are capable of doing on
your own which will
definitely help you in
making many vital decisions
like your future career etc.
•You will experience a true
and pure culture of a
different kind.
•You will enhance on your
knowledge on life, society,
politics and problem solving
skills and approach.
•It shall be such a great
adventure and experience of
a life time.
•Opportunity to make friends
with people from different
background.
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program……
Football Coaching in Kenya.
In addition to the obvious
physical and mental benefits
that regular exercise
provides, there are many
inherit life-skills to be
learned, such as the
importance of team-work,
communication and
discipline. As volunteers
participate on sports
projects, it is a way for
Lecden-Kenya to promote
peace, unity and development
and also to harness the
potential in many young
children to take to
professional football as a
career.
Volunteers will help in
developing passion for
sports such as football,
basketball, volleyball etc.
among school and community
kids. Volunteers will also
assists in coaching training
drills, coordinating skills,
and organizing competitions
among sports men and women.
This project involve
placement at a local school
or with a local football
club.
Volunteers will help in
developing passion in sports
like football, basketball,
volleyball etc among school
and community kids.
Volunteers will assists in
training drills,
coordinating skills and
organizing competitions
among sports men and women.
PROJECT DURATION:
Always open all year round
and can spend a minimum of 2
weeks.
ACCOMMODATION AND
MEALS:
Typically volunteers are
accommodated with a host
family. Basically, there are
three meals a day which are
mostly breakfast, lunch and
dinner but in some
exceptions you could be
provided with just two meals
a day depending on your
project locations so please
we advice prospective
volunteers make provision
for the exceptions.
WHAT YOU CAN BRING
TO SUPPORT.
Set of jerseys, keepers
gloves, footballs, boots,
whistles and other sporting
staff.
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Environmental
Conservation
It is from here that we get
our food, clean water,
herbs, medicines and raw
materials. In this program,
we try to bring an end to
the habit of misusing this
natural capital but instead
renew it and even make it
better than we found it. It
is this practice that will
lead to maintenance of
global biodiversity,
fruitful productivity and
steady resilience of
ecological systems.
Volunteer’s
responsibilities
Volunteers work on a wide
variety of activities,:-
•Help to plant trees in
areas where deforestation
has been the order of the
day
•Teaching environmental
awareness to planting trees
within the community
•Encourage establishment of
tree nurseries, Soil cover
e.g. grass, shrubs on fallow
parcels and building a
gabion to curb erosion, use
of conventional insecticides
and herbicides that are
environment friendly, and
Flower gardening to make our
homes and the environment
beautiful and a place worth
residing.
Program Objectives
•Create a habitat for our
wildlife
•To bring back life to our
environment by making it
healthy and natural
Program Duration.
•Program is opened to
volunteers all year round.
Volunteers can spend from
two weeks onwards on the
program.
Who can volunteer? Anybody
can volunteer in this
program as long as you are
18 years or more. It is
regardless of your
profession, however,
specialized skills and
expertise will be used
accordingly.
Participants should have a
positive attitude, be ready
to adopt and enjoy simple
living conditions, be
flexible and patient.
Volunteer Benefits
•You would discover more of
yourself and be happy to
bring back life to nature
•You would have gotten for
yourself more experience and
how capable you are to work
so hard.
•Your experience and
understanding for
environmental issues would
be even more
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VolunTravel
in Kenya.
Volunteers can either spend
1-12 weeks on any one of the
projects or combine it with
their safari travel. We
ensure that volunteers
involved enjoy a totally
unique experience all year
round not just summer. The
programs includes teaching
in remote rural primary and
secondary schools, work in
Kenyan children orphanages
giving hope to the needy
children, environmental
conservation, working as
community health worker in
hospital, assisting in
administrative work and many
more as per the interest of
volunteers.
Travel in Kenya
-Location: Varies
-Start & Duration:
Volunteers can begin our
placements based on their
choice program dates.
Qualifications: 18+ years,
Volunteers participating in
the health care must have
appropriate training and
certification (to be
presented during placement)
Languages: English
speaking
Experience Required:
None
Participants: Open to
worldwide participants both
individual and group
volunteers.
Living arrangements: Home
stays and others.
Post program service:
include debriefing and
certificate of completion.
Volunteers are given the
opportunity to choose a
volunTravel package of their
interest from the options
given below:-
14VOLUNTEER
VACATIONS KENYA SAFARI
17 Days Kenya
VolunTravel & Tiwi Beach
Resort.
19 Days Kenya
VoluTravel Holidays & Lamu
23 Days Volunteer
Adventure Experience.
26 Days VolunTravel
& Tiwi Beach Reort
27 Days VolunTravel
Homestay & Lamu Island
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