📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Kenya Voluntary Development Association (KVDA) is an indigenous, non-political and membership organization which is non-sectarian and non-profit making started in 1962 as a work camp organization registered under the Societies’ Act. In 1993, KVDA was registered as a Non-Governmental organization by the establishment of the NGOs Coordination Act.
KVDA has since inception hosted over 50, 000 international volunteers to its community service development projects that have left indelible mark to efforts to enhance sustainable development.
💼 What the programme involves
PROJECT BACKGROUND : Great Vision/Revelation Orphanage & Needy Children School established in 2008 to offer assistance to needy children from areas around Maweni and Kongowea in Mombasa including school drop outs by providing tuition and also vocational training. The center aims at: providing formal/basic education to the children; provision of vocational education hence reduction of poverty as a result of skills acquired; creation of employment for the slum dwellers; empowering the community education.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES : Rehabilitation program for the youth in Maweni, Kongowea
• Provision of vocational training to mature orphans
• Access to bursaries towards education of the orphans & disadvantaged children
• Provision of day care to the children
• Provision of skilled education to all ages
• Spreading awareness/counseling on HIV/AIDS.
TARGET GROUP :The poor and needy children, youth and women
• Marginalized, disabled and uneducated persons
• HIV/AIDS infected and affected.
VOLUNTEER TASKS : Social work at the orphanage
• General care of the children
• Help children with sanitation issues such as: brushing teeth, showering, and establishing and maintaining personal hygiene
• Organize games, sports, drawing lessons, singing sessions, dancing, and other creative, educational and extracurricular activities
• Teaching children at the School
• Resource Mobilization to enhance the capacity of the institution.
• Submit Project Report to KVDA.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Home stay and the volunteer is entitled to private room but will share other amenities and meals with the host family. It is convenient for the volunteer to carry sleeping bag, mat and personal effects. KVDA has a memorandum of understanding with the host project regarding the project costs with appropriate procedures, checks and balances.
📍 About the location
LOCATION : Maweni, Mombasa, Coast Region.
LEISURE : Kenya is replete with a lot of interesting and natural spectacular sites of interest that would capture the imagination of volunteers. From the tour to the renowned Maasai Mara Game Reserve to visits to local community beholding sights, the volunteers have the previledge to make choices that would fundamentally make the difference. The project also offers a perfect opportunity for people who enjoy being close to nature and are interested in the spectacular setting that traditional way of living in the heartland of the African culture would enrich your cultural heritage.
ℹ️ Additional information
The project participation fee is Euro 200 per month (for more than 1 month stay). Fee is Euro 300 for volunteers staying one month only.