Charlotte Memorial Edu. Center
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About the project
Charlotte Memorial Edu. Center
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partner is a community development organization fighting poverty through various Volunteering and Community Development programs in Kenya. It is a non-profit and non-governmental organization established in 2013 in Kenya to promote peace, global citizenship and community development and cultural exchange through international volunteering programs by empowering young people to advance community development, strengthen multicultural understanding and increase cooperation between Kenyan communities and people living in developed world through a range of development programs. Their mission is to build the spirit of volunteerism which provide integral sustainable and human development and encouraging partnership in caring of environment by inspiring voluntarism and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising the future generations.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will support the teachers and share culture and other activities in the classrooms in the morning. There will also be opportunity for sports and play with the children. In the afternoon volunteers will work with, Teaching English, Assisting teaching in daily classes, Providing general care and assistance in looking after the Children, this will involve playing games, teaching English as basic life skills. Feeding the children playing with the children, Games and sport.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in school dormitories. There is a simple accommodation space for volunteers with piped water, well and roof catchment water tanks within same compound of host family. Electricity is within reach though arrangements are being done to have it within the rooms in the near future. Space can accommodate up to about twenty volunteers.
📍 About the location
It is a school sponsored by Young Voluntary Development Workers Group – the mother and the Charlotte Memorial Educational Centre both self-help projects within the project’s locality.
🎒 Leisure activities
Most of the free time will be spent sharing culture with local community members and the other volunteers on the project. Visit the lakeside of Lake Victoria, have a lunch on the lake side after boat ride, hippo search, bird watching, dunga hill camp, impala park.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers must be at least 18.
🤝 Meeting point
Orientation will begin in the morning of the 1st October 2022 at our partner’s offices and you will be picked up from accommodation and taken to the orientation will be conducted by our partner’s Staff in Nairobi and cover everything you need to know about your project placement. Introduction to Kenya and Luo land, Luo customs, language and expectations, safety, travel opportunities in Kenya, introduction to your project and placement. The orientation will also give you a chance to meet other volunteers.
ℹ️ Additional information
Each volunteer pays 300€
The fee covers the following:
• project work
• housing
• all meals
• transport from the airport and to the project site
• 24 hours on site staff support.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
ACoH 10/ 01
02/10/2022 → 22/10/2022
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
300.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Ahero, Kenya
Kenya
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Kenyan Shilling (KES / KSh)
Exchange rate
1 KES = 0.006892 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
East Africa Time
Local time: 21:17 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken