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This guide is designed to help get you prepared for your trip of a lifetime. It is worth taking your time to read through each of the sections to ensure your prepared for life in Kenya!
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Section 2a: Why Volunteer?
Volunteering abroad is making an increasingly positive impact on lives across the world for numerous reasons. The projects can expect to receive enthusiastic volunteers who are eager to try something new. They can see their goals actively being achieved as a direct result.
Time out for you
The pace of life in the western world can tire even the most enthusiastic stock broker - which means it is becoming more important for people to carefully select their time away from the stresses and strains of everyday life. Spending time immersing yourself in a totally new culture can enhance your outlook on life, help forge lifelong friends and inject you with a infectious thirst for travelling!
Boost your CV
Whether you take a one-week working holiday or three months away from everything, adding 'volunteering abroad' to your CV will show employers your dynamism, creativity, commitment to a project and ambition.
The Project
Every project supported KenyanAdventure is geared towards accommodating volunteers to assist with its operations and development. In short, the more volunteers - the more gets done!
The Project's Resources
Every time somebody volunteers with KenyanAdventure, we contrib0te part of your placement fee directly into the project to pay for vital resources from school meals and uniform for kids to footballs and front doors - your placement WILL make a difference to the project you work with.
Section 2b: Why Pay to Volunteer?
In the past, individuals have successfully managed to get in touch with community projects in developing nations offering help and assistance. However, in a high number of circumstances, informal placements have experienced a succession of problems - from financial extortion to unreliable 'co-ordinators'.
Volunteering through a specialist travel company comes with huge benefits:
Information - KenyanAdventure provides a comprehensive background of each and every project it offers to place volunteers on. Once your placement has been confirmed, you are kept up to date with the latest happenings in order to research and prepare for your trip, making sure that you get the most from your KenyanAdventure.
Support - Volunteers are provided with a systematic support system once in Kenya. In-country co-ordinators have years of experience in such fields and are able to provide you with professional and compassionate support. Should you require more urgent assistance, the UK KenyanAdventure offices are contactable to deliver help and assistance where needed. We have access to tailored support systems in case of a crisis, meaning help is at hand when you need it most!
Organisation - Free-style, independent travelling can be disrupted when things don't go to plan, so when you come on a KenyanAdventure, you can relax knowing that you will be met by a friendly face at the other end of your flight. Our In-country co-ordinators provide a welcoming orientation at the beginning of your placement to help you adjust to your new surroundings before taking you to your accommodation and staying in regular contact with you throughout your stay.
Expertise - We have spent a considerable amount of time and effort sourcing projects that are suitable for accepting volunteers, particularly those from the west. Project teams are working as one to help develop local communities, avoiding past problems such as corruption and neglect.
