KIPEPEO
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About the project
KIPEPEO
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Kipepeo Community Empowering Program is a community Based organization initiated in October 2009 to help spearhead community driven development initiatives and enable needy community groups participate in integrated activities to achieve quality livelihood from; HIV & AIDs education, awareness and advocacy, rehabilitation of street children’s support vulnerable children, deployment of both local and international volunteers to various community projects, microfinance trainings and monitoring. (Community Savings and loaning), capacity buildings, computer training to orphans and vulnerable youths in the community, Computer services to the community, community library, educational support initiative to bright orphaned and vulnerable children’s, Eco-Tourism and Environmental education and management.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will be involved in; community activities, environmental clean-ups and education, landscaping, intercultural exchange activities, construction work, brick making, farming, fencing, tree planting, HIV /AIDS awareness creation and education.
The work involves landscaping, making bricks, the construction of classes at Kipepeo Community Education Centre, foreign language training, fencing, water tanks installation and piping, gate construction, green houses construction
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be living in the school compound, pit latrines and local bathrooms will be used, no electricity and no internet.
🎒 Leisure activities
Most of our free time will be spent sharing culture and friendship with local community members and the other volunteers on the project. There will be an opportunity to a local market, attend church, play soccer and participate in other community activities. They will be an opportunity to visit the vast and most beautiful Kakamega forest with different species of birds and colobus monkeys.
🤝 Meeting point
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Orientation will begin in the morning of the 12th January 2018 at KVSO offices and you will be picked up for accommodation and taken for the orientation which will be conducted by KVSO staff in Nairobi.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation fees includes project work, housing, all Meals, transport from the airport and to the project site, and 24 hours on side staff support.
Everything you need to know about your project placement will be covered. Introduction to Kenya and Luhya land, Luhya customs, and expectations, safety, travel opportunities in Kenya, introduction to your project and placement all these you will be able to know. The orientation will also give you a chance to meet other volunteers and swap contact details for weekend travel and socializing.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
KIPEPEO
13/02/2018 → 28/02/2018
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
250.00 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: 21:27 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken