MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVEEDUCATION, SUPPORT AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

Name: MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVEEDUCATION, SUPPORT AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Start: 2022-01-01
End: 2026-12-30
Location: Kenya

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Kenya Children Languages Social work Children Languages +1 Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

GVDA is a leading International non-profit making organization established in Kenya in 1997 to build partnership by empowering young leaders to advance community development and strengthen multicultural understanding, increase cooperation between Kenyan communities and people living in developed world through a range of development programs;

GVDA seeks to improve international and cross-cultural understanding by providing opportunities for international volunteers to live alongside, learn from and share skills with Kenya communities.

GVDA programmes combines, short group, mid , internship long term International volunteer positions, community immersion, cross-cultural learning, ecotourism, community tourism, adventure and community services of people of all ages.

💼 What the programme involves

Leshuta Boarding Primary School was founded in 2011 by community members, and is a mixed sex school. The boys and girls who attend leshuta are between3 and 17 years old. The school currently has 300 pupils and 10 teachers. It is a government school. It is named in honor of the Maasai people (the ancestral inhabitants of the area). The Maasai communities are one of the few remaining semi- nomadic ethnic group in Africa and live near the southern border of Kenya and Tanzania

VOLUNTEER ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Teaching English language, computer skills, creative arts, participating in culture events, raise environmental awareness, planting of trees and transfer of seedlings, sports and games, theatre, computer lessons, basic education, workshops, Music and intercultural events, construction sites, making bricks, construction of classrooms and painting.
Volunteers will support the teachers and share culture and other activities in the classrooms in the morning. In the afternoon volunteers will work with, Teaching English, Assisting teaching in daily classes.

🏠 Accommodation on site

At a host family. Please note that you will share the typical living conditions of a Kenyan family. There will be electricity, but no shower and pipe water/taps at the accommodation. Volunteers will be using buckets for bathing. Water will be boiled for drinking purposes and those who prefer can buy bottled water.

📍 About the location

Located in Leshuta, near Naikarra, Narok, approximately 5hours’ drive from Nairobi. Transport to the project will be by public transport. The closest Market is 5 minutes’ walk. Post Office, Banks (ATMs), Internet and other social facilities are located in Narok Town.

⚠️ Requirements

Special requirements: The participants should have a positive attitude, be ready to adopt and enjoy simple living conditions, and be flexible and patient.

🤝 Meeting point

You will be met by our representative at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi from where you are transferred to the accommodations in Nairobi itself. Volunteers who will be already in Kenya or arriving overland would need to give us their contact details so that the pickup can be arranged from a specific location.

ℹ️ Additional information

200 Euros per month or 600 Euros per 3 months. The program will run for a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 6 months. Orientation meeting will take place in Nairobi before proceeding to the project.

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