Projet Unesco Maasai Mara National Reserve
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About the project
Projet Unesco Maasai Mara National Reserve
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The project’s objective is to unite both local and international communities in an effort to conserve, protect and rehabilitate the Maasai Mara National Reserve through youth volunteer action camps and cross-border exchanges. Hence, the collaborative effort aims to achieve better maintained biodiversity and a more sustainable environment where humans and the natural world can coexist.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will participate in various activities aimed at forging bonds between the local community; classroom programmes will be accessible to the locals so that they can learn more about World Heritage sites and how to contribute to their protection.
They will also have the opportunity to better develop their English communicational skills, giving them more flexibility to promote their own sites among the international community. Regarding the more hands-on activities, volunteers will plant trees, assist local hospitals, and carry out renovation and environmental work in Maasai Mara’s communities in order to revitalize the local communities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in school dormitories. Accommodations are very simple, there is running water, and meals will be prepared by volunteers. Beds and Mattresses will be provided. Volunteer to carry; mosquito nets, sleeping bag, a pillow and water purifying tablets. Chess, playing and tents are necessary. Toilets are basic, and hot water will be limited, but available at night.
🍲 Food
African meals are prepared like rice, ugali, chapatti, potatoes, bananas. All types of food are available in local supermarkets. Different fruits and vegetables are available like bananas, mangoes, oranges, ovacados, cabbages, carrots, kales etc. GVDA volunteers offers 3 meals a day (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner). We offer locally available, fresh and nutritious food from start to end day of the project.
📍 About the location
Maasai Mara National Reserve
🎒 Leisure activities
Truly unique life changing experience called “out of this world”. You won’t be the same person afterwards.
This will provide opportunities for international volunteers to learn/ enjoy local life and exchange with local people, making a while experience life through the eyes of the locals and exploring the great seven wonders of Maasai Mara National Game Reserve. Volunteers will enjoy the beautiful savannah. Numerous plains games including antelopes, wild beasts, Zebras, Maasai giraffes can be seen as well as scavengers like hyena and vulture. Take a guided safari on a weekend trip deeper into the Masai mara to spot lions, gazelles and water buffalo.
🤝 Meeting point
Orientation will begin in the morning of the second day at GVDA offices or hostels and you will be picked up from accommodation and taken to the orientation which will be conducted by our local staff in Nairobi and cover everything you need to know about your project placement. Introduction to Kenya and Maasailand, Kenya and Maasai customs, language training (Kiswahili and Kimaasai), routes and expectations, safety, travel opportunities in Kenya, introduction to your project and placement. The orientation will also give you a chance to meet other volunteers and swap contact details for weekend travel and socializing. Once orientation is complete, volunteers will travel to the project site.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
GVDA-UNESCO-1
01/07/2019 → 15/07/2019
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
300.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Maasai Mara National Reserve, 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: 22:02 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
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