ENVIRONMENTAL, CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, RESEARCH VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

Name: ENVIRONMENTAL, CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, RESEARCH VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Start: 2017-05-26
End: 2019-12-31
Location: Kakamega, Kenya

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Kenya Farming Environment Farming Environment Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Kakamega forest is a rain forest the largest East African forest that used to stretch from Kenya to Democratic Republic of Congo now reduced to Kenya all the way to Uganda.

💼 What the programme involves

The volunteers will be expected to participate in: 1) Tree Nursery caring/ Tree Nursery Planting 2) Environmental Education in Schools and within the local Luhya communities. 3) Food security education 4) Bio diversity monitoring 5) Counting and noting the different species of birds 6) Feeding the colobus monkey and other species of monkeys. 7) Community capacity building. 8) Beekeeping. Other activities include Agro-forestry and nursery management/ grafting, planting: close spacing in diagonal offset in rows by hand in BIA beds, companion planting and crop rotation, practical non-chemical pest and disease management, identification, extraction and establishment of herbs for pest and disease management in crops, the village seed selection and saving of open pollinated crops (indigenous vegetables), mix farming farms, the rural indigenous chicken rearing system (free range), making a bee hive (langstroth and Kenya top bar hive)

🏠 Accommodation on site

At a host family. Please note that you will share the typical living conditions of a Kenyan family. There will be electricity, but no shower and pipe water/taps at the accommodation. Volunteers will be using buckets for bathing. Water will be boiled for drinking purposes and those who prefer can buy bottled water.

📍 About the location

Kakamega forest is located in Western Kenya, 418 KM from Nairobi city through, Nakuru, Kericho, Kisumu Kakamega town then Kakamega Isecheno forest station

🎒 Leisure activities

18 and over. English.

🤝 Meeting point

Arrival and pick upfrom the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya and transfer to host family home or hostel. Orientation meeting will take place in Nairobi before proceeding to the project.

ℹ️ Additional information

900 Euro for six months and 600 Euros for 3 months. The program will run for a minimum of 6 months. The program is running throughout the year.

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📅 Available sessions

GVDA2018/MLTV23

01/01/2018 → 31/12/2018

Closed

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GVDA-16

26/05/2017 → 31/12/2017

Closed

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GVDAMLTV21

01/01/2019 → 31/12/2019

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

200.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Kakamega, 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: 21:21 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swahili