📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Happy Me Happy You is a non-profit organization that was established in 2017 to empower children women, youth and men from vulnerable and poverty-stricken backgrounds to realize a sustainable community focussing on key areas of Education, Water, Health and Sanitation and Agriculture to improve their livelihood.The organization is strongly focused on offering Early Childhood Development and Education to vulnerable children. It also runs a feeding program for needy children affected by hunger. The project is working towards beginning to be involved in the following activities:UOTraining small-scale farmers on modern/best farming practices to maximize their productivity, realize potential market and increase salesUOTraining the community stakeholders on new technology trends through ICT to help them research, get informed and UOTraining the community on financial management and leadership skills to enable them plan and budget well for their finances.UOThey engage the community in table banking - a system that enables members of a community to access unsecured loans, from money pooled by other members of the community, and allows community members to invest in each others businesses and enterprises where members can apply for short- or long-term loans at low-interest rates.
💼 What the programme involves
UOAssisting with teaching of various subjects such as Creative Arts, English, Basic Mathematics in the nursery schoolUOAssisting the children with their homeworkUOGeneral cleaning and maintenance of the project area and its surrounding: bush clearing, litters collection, making a disposal point, sweeping, landscaping, construction repairs and brick making.UOPlanning and engaging the kids in extra-curricular activities like sports and games UOEngaging in health education and mentorship programs to the youth within the community alongside project staffUOFarm work which includes farming, digging, planting of various crops, weeding and tree planting exercise for environmental conservation
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be at a shared house closer to the project in this workcamp and it is important that you have your own sleeping mat, mosquito net and a sleeping bag. This area is sometimes muddy therefore it s important to have working boots. During the workcamp, volunteers will get food from locally available foodstuffs and will share the responsibility of preparing the food.
📍 About the location
In this workcamp, volunteers will have a chance to do evening nature walks, home visits, cultural meetings, and games. During weekends, volunteers can visit Lake Victoria, Kisumu Museum, the Crying Stone, the equator line, and a general tour in Kisumu city. Volunteers will also have the opportunity for an early morning visit to Kakamega Rainforest, hike on the forest hill and witness a sunrise from the forest hill. Leisure activities costs are not included in the participation fee.