Hope for Victoria children
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About the project
Hope for Victoria children
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Hope for Victoria Children (HOVIC) was established in 2003. HOVIC aims at improving the quality of life of street children and those in the hidden sector whose rights have been rampantly abused, suffering malnutrition, harassment and missing out on education. HOVIC has since implemented programmes to address these ills, and has learnt over the years that long-term sustainable impact on street children’s lives is best cultivated from their communities. After years of reflection, HOVIC’s strategic direction has shifted with greater emphasis on empowering vulnerable children and their communities to create long-term sustainable change, through short term rehabilitation activities, reunification, and foster family economic support.
HOVIC has addressed needs and challenges experienced by children living and working on the streets of Kisumu city, including vocational training facilities and workshops for apprenticeships. So far HOVIC has supported more than 500 children with an average of 100 children on a daily basis accessing its services (health and hygiene care, non-formal education, vocational training, child psychosocial counselling etc.) at its day centre in Kisumu.
💼 What the programme involves
This project conducts streets visits to bring boys from the street into the programme. Likewise, it conducts visits in to the hidden sector to rescue girls from child labour and early age commercial work. The rehabilitation process begins right from the streets, through counselling and psychosocial support. They include registration and case profile establishment, life skill (resilience training on various life issues), psychosocial support to children, their parents, guardians and families, home tracing and family conflict management. HOVIC has a night shelter facility where all boys who want to transform their lives from the streets and drug use reside for a period between 3- 6 months depending on each child’s individual case. Main work activities for the volunteers will be: teaching and training, sponsorship and scholastics material support, school based advocacy, on formal education, school visits and follow ups art (bead work, soapstone).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in the hostel or host family, Accommodations are very simple, there is running water, electricity. Beds and Mattresses will be provided.
🍲 Food
meals will be prepared by volunteers.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers won’t be the same person after seeing the beautiful tropical rain forest at Kakamega and seeing the sunrise very early in the morning or/and the sunset very late in the evening. Also see the different species of monkey birds that are being found only in Kakamega forest, the blue monkey, black and white monkey and red tail monkey; the view of the forest is just fantastic! Volunteers can also visit the lake side for boat ride, they can attend hippo search and bird watching in Lake Victoria - Kisumu city.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers are asked to carry; mosquito nets, sleeping bag, a pillow and water purifying tablets. Chess, playing and tents are necessary.
🤝 Meeting point
ARRIVAL TERMINAL
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Orientation will begin in the morning of the 9th June 2022 at KVSO offices and volunteers will be picked up from accommodation and taken to the orientation which will be conducted by KVSO staff in Nairob. Everything you need to know will be covered about your project placement. There will be an introduction to the project and the placement, an introduction to Kenya and Luo land, Luo customs, language training (Kiswahili), routes and expectations, safety, travel opportunities in Kenya. The orientation will also give them a chance to meet other volunteers and swap contact details for weekend travel and socializing.
ℹ️ Additional information
380€ which includes project work, housing, all meals, transport from the airport and to the project site, and 24 hours on side staff support.
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📅 Available sessions
KVSO 06/02
10/06/2023 at 00:00 → 30/06/2023 at 00:00
KVSO 06/02
10/06/2022 → 30/06/2022
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
380.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Kisumu, 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: 21:24 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken