Unesco Project The Kakemega Forest

Name: Unesco Project The Kakemega Forest
Start: 2019-08-04
End: 2019-08-18
Location: Kenya

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Kenya Culture Environment Culture Environment +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The project’s principal objective is to raise awareness regarding Kenya’s cultural and natural heritage among volunteers and locals. Moreover, various activities will be aimed at addressing gender inequality, as it is a major issue in western Kenya. More
pedagogically related activities will focus on strengthening sustainable cooperation between institutions and locals, with the intention of providing students with first-hand knowledge and skills pertaining to the preservation of cultural heritage.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will have the opportunity to participate in an array of activities ranging from pedagogically focused forest walks and biodiversity monitoring programmes for volunteers to discover the site’s biodiversity, to school outreach programmes, giving volunteers the occasion to share knowledge with local students regarding world heritage preservation. Additionally, more hands-on activities will plunge volunteers into the heart of the rainforest in an effort to maintain tree and nursery facilities, assist in the farming of butterflies and facilitate the construction of traditional houses.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be living in a secluded Maasai village with access to drinking water, minimal electricity and adequate food.

🍲 Food

2/3 meals a day

📍 About the location

Kakemega Forest

🎒 Leisure activities

Most of the free time will be spent sharing culture and friendship with local community members and the other volunteers on the project. There will be an opportunity to a local market, attend church, play soccer and participate in other community activities. Volunteers will have the opportunity to discover the fabulous environment and rich diversity of the Maasai Mara culture.
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. Volunteers will have the chance to take a guided safari on a weekend trip to go deeper into the Maasai Mara reserve to spot lions, gazelles and water buffalo.