📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Founded in 2006, Nyalunya Community Development Group was registered in 2008 under the Ministry of Gender, Children, Sports and Social Services in the Kenyan Government as a community-based organization. Situated about 380 km north-west of Nairobi, Nyalunya is located in Kisumu County. The founders of the group were looking for a way to bring the community together and to mutually benefit living standards and lifestyle.
This group hosts 20 orphans or underprivileged children in a kindergarten. Through our endeavors, children will have a chance to acquire the necessary education for them by going to primary school. We also work with farming as a means to sustain our school through the sale of the produce. We not only raise money through this farm, we also use it as a teaching field for instructing other local farmers about farming techniques and about crops not usually grown in the area.
💼 What the programme involves
Feeding program
Farm work that includes land preparation
Mat making activities
HIV/AIDS awareness campaign
Exchange programs with local schools
Environmental activities
Kiswahili lessons
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be at the project for this workcamp and it will be important that you have your own sleeping bag and mat. During the workcamp, food will be provided to volunteers from what is locally available. The volunteers will share the responsibility of preparing the food themselves
CIVS will arrange accommodation before and after the workcamp in a host family in Buruburu area of Nairobi.
📍 About the location
Nyakach Subcounty, Kisumu County of Kenya
In this workcamp, volunteers can visit Lake Victoria in Kisumu city, which is about 2 hours drive from the project.
CIVS organizes educational safaris to spectacular sites of interest in Kenya. Volunteers who wish to participate should apply at least two weeks before arrival to enable us make proper arrangements. The fee charged is all-inclusive of meals, transport, entry into the park, accommodation and tour guiding.
Safari dates: 03rd - 05th February 2016
Charges: 3 - day tour to Maasai Mara National Park, Euros 320
It is important to note, that 5% of the proceeds from the Safari is used to support our feeding program for the orphans at Ahero Resource Centre Project, located about 30km from Kisumu.