Community Work with Children

Immerse yourself in a rural African community and work together with local people to put smiles on the faces of children from impoverished backgrounds. This thoroughly rewarding project is just a stone's throw away from the world-famous Lake Nakuru Safari Park.

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In Kenya, over half of the population live on less than $1USD per day, meaning daily life is often a struggle. We work together with projects in local communities across the country who offer support services to provide education, housing and even meals to those in need.

The projects, which work predominantly to assist orphaned, neglected or disadvantaged children, act as support centres in close-knit communities that love having volunteers!

You will be based at a school nearby your accommodation where you'll be needed to help play with kids, offer care and support, prepare/serve meals as well as assisting in English lessons. As the kids have not received any formal education, basic teaching of Maths, Art and Music can be essential to shape basic learning as well as great fun.

As a community volunteer, you'll also have the chance to make home visits to pupils' families, local hospitals and wholesalers to help select food for meals.

A Typical Day...

Your role as a community worker with children will be invaluable as you provide help, assistance and care for children in deprived area. A typical day will see you get up at approximately 7.30am, before having breakfast and meeting your fellow volunteers and Project Coordinator at approximately 8.45am before assisting in transporting any children to school who are unable to do so themselves.

You’ll have a short ‘play-time’ before they start lessons and you leave the school and make any home visits to those unable to come to school altogether. This period may include any hospital visits for/with children to see relatives too. Following this, you will head back to school to help prepare the lunchtime meals for pupils with the other volunteers.

You can enjoy a well-earned break before playing games with the kids or even conducting your own sports class ahead of their afternoon lesson.

In the afternoons, you’ll source stationery, food, drink and materials for the coming days before returning to school to walk the kids home! Your working day will finish at approximately 4pm, giving you plenty of time to catch up with your home-stay family or visit the nearby town.

It is important to know exactly what you get with your trip so you can plan ahead with no unwanted surprises!

What's included:

Project placement for duration of your stay.
Accommodation with family home-stay for duration of your stay.
Airport pick-up.
First night stay in hotel.
Transfer from airport to project location.
Project Orientation.
Breakfast and evening meals.
In-country support through Project Co-ordinators and In-Country Co-ordinator.
Emergency support in UK.
Cash injection into the project you work on to help supply equipment.
Transport to project if required (provided if longer than 30 minute walk from homestay).

What's not included:

Flights
Personal travel insurance
Visa
Return Airport Transport
Lunch

Arrival Airport: Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta International)

Project Start Dates: 1st or 3rd Monday of every month throughout the year

Project Length: Minimum one week, maximum six months

Minimum Age: 18. 16+ considered with parental approval

Qualifications: No formal qualifications required

Remember, unlike many other volunteer travel companies, every time we send a volunteer to Africa, we donate a part of your trip fee directly into the project you visit Africa to work with to help fund materials and equipment. If you work with this project for just two weeks, your donation money will help to fund one of:

- 500 school meals for children

- A month's supply of water at a local school

- School fees for an entire term for a child progressing to high school

- An entire school's hospital bill for three weeks