📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Mombasa Rays of Hope Women Project is a women-led non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children, youth, and women in Mombasa and surrounding communities. Our mission is to identify both immediate and long-term community needs and address them through networking, advocacy, and sustainable development initiatives.
The project runs several key programs:
• Education and Child Welfare: Providing school support, feeding, and care for orphans and vulnerable children at the Rays of Hope Community School.
• Vocational and Life Skills Training: Offering training in garment making, ICT, and digital literacy to empower women and youth.
• Women's Economic Empowerment: Supporting women with business skills and sustainability initiatives to strengthen families and promote economic justice.
• Environmental Conservation: Promoting eco-farming, waste recycling, and green initiatives for community and global sustainability.
• Girl Child Protection: Advocating against early marriage and gender-based violence while promoting reproductive health and menstrual hygiene.
• Red Ribbon Companion Programme: Providing care and emotional support for people living with chronic conditions and the elderly.
• Community Sports Engagement: Using sports to nurture talent, prevent drug abuse, and promote youth development.
• Healthcare Volunteer Program: Partnering with local hospitals to provide maternal and general healthcare services.
• Spiritual Guidance and Compassion: Offering faith-based support to orphans, widows, and the needy.
Currently, they support 230 vulnerable children and 30 women beneficiaries at our center. Our projects are sustained through community volunteering and recycling initiatives.
💼 What the programme involves
• Assist in offering academic support, mentoring students, and facilitating life-skills and creative learning sessions.
• Support in the food preparation, serving, and providing daily care and emotional support to children.
• Training youth and women in tailoring, digital literacy, and entrepreneurship, helping them gain self-reliant livelihoods.
• Engage in eco-farming, tree planting, and waste collection activities, promoting environmental conservation and sustainability.
Other activities may include:
• In partnership with local health facilities, volunteers may support maternal health clinics, community health awareness, and sanitation campaigns.
• Volunteers may coach children and youth in sports and recreation, nurturing teamwork, discipline, and talent while promoting healthy lifestyles.
• Volunteers may participate in advocacy campaigns, menstrual hygiene education, and gender equality workshops aimed at protecting and empowering girls and women.
• Volunteers may join the Red Ribbon Companion Program, visiting the elderly and people living with chronic illnesses to offer companionship, counseling, and basic support.
• Faith-driven volunteers share spiritual guidance, motivational talks, and counseling to provide hope and encouragement to the needy..
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be accommodated in a host family, which is 15 minutes’ walk from the project. Breakfast and dinner shall be provided at the host family while lunch shall be served at the project
📍 About the location
The project is located in the beautiful coastal part of Kenya and the volunteers will have the chance to visit the beaches
