ST. MICHAEL DAY CARE AND RESCUE CENTRE

Name: ST. MICHAEL DAY CARE AND RESCUE CENTRE
Start: 2016-01-04
End: 2028-02-08
Location: Ukunda, Kenya

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Kenya Education Children Social work Education Children +1 Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The project was established in 2013 to take care of the pre-school aged children within Ukunda area and its environs. Many of the parents find themselves away from the area the entire day in the quest for food, water and work and are not able to afford to pay house helps to take care of their children. The day care takes care of children whose parents have low-income jobs or are unemployed is mostly women with semi-permanent jobs using the day care. While they go looking for work, St Michaels Day Care Centre provides a safe place for the small children by providing meals and basic education. The project also seeks to respond to the needs of girls who have been abandoned and do not have a place to call home. The founder takes care of these girls whose age ranges from 7 to 14 years. The girls also go to nearby schools within the community to get access to basic education. Since the target group is quite poor and due to the scarcity of foodstuffs, many of the children of the center find their only meal of the day here

💼 What the programme involves

- At the Centre:

- Assisting in the preparation of meals, serving and feeding of the children, Cleaning theutensils, ensuring the center is clean and the hygiene of the kids is considered

- Assisting the 4/15 day schooling children with their homework (The rest are boarding)

- Developing and facilitating age appropriate sports activities for the kids for leisure
- Developing and facilitating extra-curricular activities such as drawing, arts and crafts, music
and dance to help the children discover and promote their talent

- At the nearby school: (only during school days)

 Assist in planning and facilitating for children's extra curriculum activities such as games
and sports.
 Coordinate with the teacher in charge to assist in teaching subjects such as English,
Mathematics, Arts, Music and environmental science.
 Assist in planning for Hygiene and environment days at school and to conduct school
weekly general cleaning which includes: landscaping, slashing of weeds, planting and
watering trees, collecting, disposing and burning garbage etc.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will stay in a host family within the project site. The host family will provide meals.

📍 About the location

This project is located in Msambweni, Diani, Kwale County

ℹ️ Additional information

CIVS Kenya organizes tours and safaris to spectacular sites of interest in Kenya. Volunteers, who wish to participate, should let us know as soon as possible in order to enable us to make proper arrangements. The fee charged is all-inclusive of meals, transport, park entry fees, accommodation and tour guiding. The cost of a 3 days safari to Masai Mara National Reserve is 340 Euro.

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–55 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

Ukunda, 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: 21:08 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swahili