Kaimosi Special School
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About the project
Kaimosi Special School
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Kaimosi Special School was founded by missionaries from Quakers Friends church in the year 1987 with an aim of empowering the disabled people (both mentally and physically) from the communities. The project also was to give them basic education and hope for future life as well as to make them be self-reliant and integrate them into the society. Currently the School hosts about 104 disabled people who are children and young adults whose ages range from 6 years to about 32 years and they are from different communities. Most of the beneficiaries have autistism, Down syndrome, other mental challenges, multiple handicapped and epileptic and therefore they are engaged to different classes according to their disabilities and their level of understanding. The school offer skills to them in different classes such as Autism class, Foundation class, and intermediate class, prevocational and vocational class. The school is now a full boarding national school which is supported by the government of Kenya and the friend’s Quaker church.
💼 What the programme involves
- Helping in preparation of meals, serving and feeding the children
- Helping in nursing services such as taking care of the sick and giving them medicine
- Engaging in dressmaking and tailoring
- Training children vocational skills such as agriculture, weaving, tailoring, carpentry and bead work
- Playing together with children through extracurricular activities such a sports and dance
- Assisting with physiotherapy
- Assisting in mobility
- Organizing and Giving guiding and counseling sessions
- Taking them to events outside the school such as music and sports
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be at the project in this workcamp and it is important that you have your own sleeping bag and mat.
🍲 Food
During the workcamp, volunteers will get food from locally available foodstuffs and the volunteers will share the responsibility of preparing the food.
📍 About the location
Kaimosi Hamisi Subcounty, Vihiga County of Kenya
🤝 Meeting point
We will pick up all volunteers taking part in this workcamp from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. CIVS will arrange accommodation before and after the workcamp in a host family in the Buruburu area of Nairobi.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
CIVS/STV-07:03/2020
19/07/2020 → 04/08/2020
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
265.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Kaimosi, 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: 21:50 (12/11/2026)
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