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KVSO Kaimosi Special School Project

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Kenya People with disabilities Children People with disabilities Children Permanent

About the project

KVSO Kaimosi Special School Project

📝 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

The volunteers will be accommodated in a host family, which is 15 minutes walk from the project.

🍲 Food

Breakfast and dinner shall be provided at the host family while lunch shall be served at the project. There are toilets, bath shelters and a kitchen at the project

🎒 Leisure activities

CIVS organizes safaris to all the spectacular National Parks and touristic sites in Kenya, with the main attraction being Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Volunteers who wish to go on a safari should apply at least two weeks before arrival to enable us to make proper arrangements. The fee charged is all-inclusive of meals, transport, park entry, accommodation and tour guiding.
Safari dates: 15th to 17th 2020

Charges: 3-day Safari to Maasai Mara National Park, 340Euro

⚠️ Requirements


ℹ️ Additional information

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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📅 Available sessions

CIVS/MLTV-22/19

01/01/2019 → 31/12/2019

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 3
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/2

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

302.00 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: 21:31 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swahili