Learn Swahili with Community Work with Children
Get your teeth into this fantastic opportunity by combining Learning Swahili with Community Work with Children, meaning you can practice even whilst you are not in lesson! Choose the length of your course to suit you and start talking like a local.
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Swahili is an official language of four African countries - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Congo (DRC) and spoken unofficially in areas of a further seven sub-Saharan nations, making it one of the most frequently-spoken languages on the African continent.
KenyanAdventure has teamed up with teachers in three beautiful towns across Kenya to offer you a fantastic opportunity to learn and practice Swahili whilst working in a local primary school outside of lessons. You will have private daily lessons in small groups delivered by a teacher who will assign tasks to complete outside the lessons in order to quickly enhance your oral ability. Your lessons will take place in the mid-to-late afternoon and you'll be able to perfect your Swahili during the morning/early afternoon by working with children similarly grasping the basic concept of English - making the learning process easier and more enjoyable.
This placement presents a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in African culture in every possible way. Very few Westerners are able to speak Swahili and the locals will be surprised and impressed in equal measures when you show off your new skills!
A Typical Day...
Your Project Coordinator/Tutor will decide at the beginning of your placement whether to hold your Swahili lessons in the morning/afternoon evening. Your lessons will last approximately an hour each and you will have the chance to regularly assess your new skills.
You will then work around the itinerary of volunteers on the community work with children projects, which is detailed below.
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:
- Daily Swahili lessons (minimum of 1 hour per weekday)
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- Project placement on Community Work project 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
- Lunch
- Travel Insurance
- Visa
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 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
