📝 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 participated 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.
📍 About the location
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 collobus monkeys