WHV – Kakamega Forest
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About the project
WHV – Kakamega Forest
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ACoH is a community development organization fighting poverty through various Volunteering and Community Development programs in Kenya.is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization established in 2013 in Kenya to promote peace, global citizenship and community development and cultural exchange through international volunteering programs by empowering young people to advance community development and strengthen multicultural understanding increase cooperation between Kenyan communities and people living in developed world through a range of development programs.
OUR UNIVERSAL MISSION
To build the spirit of volunteerism which provide integral sustainable and human development and encouraging partnership in caring of environment by inspiring voluntarism and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising the future generations.
OUR UNIVERSAL VISION
Envision a community living a life of dignity and hope through voluntarism
ACoH envisions a world where which volunteers services by people of all nations is common strategy in meeting pressing challenges in education, health, environment, agriculture and more. We seek foster an international and innovation culture of races, ethnicities and religious beliefs together in a common purpose.
OUR OVERALL OBJECTIVES
To provide and organize voluntary service activities in cooperation with local communities as well as other local national and international organizations as means of fostering greater confidence between people of different social cultural and religious background by working learning and living together.
💼 What the programme involves
• Volunteers involved in a project of local interest and share the daily life of the group through multi-cultural exchange and an experience of authentic discovery.
• Volunteer work-camps aim to protect and help develop the natural and cultural resources of the forest.
• They encourage volunteers of all nationalities to work on a group Project benefitting the environment and/or heritage protection.
• Over a period of two or three weeks, volunteers live together and participate in a work programme that will enable them to receive basic training from professionals in stonework, restoration and consolidation.
• Volunteers will take part in Reforestation efforts, Tree Nursery Projects, Butterfly Farming School outreach program, Energy saving devices, Fish Farming and Bird Counting.
• There’s no professional requirement for this position.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in host family. Accommodations are very simple, there is running water. Beds and Mattresses will be provided.
🍲 Food
Food is provided by the association. Meals will be prepared by volunteers.
📍 About the location
Kakamega Forest is a mid-altitude tropical rainforest, the easternmost outlier of the Congo Basin forests. Its West African affinities are unique in Kenya, and the forest contains many species found nowhere else in the country. The forest lies in the Lake Victoria catchment, about 40 km north of Kisumu, and just east of the Nandi Escarpment that forms the edge of the central highlands.
Kakamega forest was first gazette as Trust Forest in 1933, and two small Nature Reserves, Yala and Isecheno (totaling about 700 ha), were established within the Forest Reserve in 1967. In 1986, nearly 4, 000 hectares of the northern portion of the forest, along with the adjacent 457 hectares Kiere Forest, were gazette as a National Park, Kakamega Forest is an important catchment; the Isiukhu and Yala Rivers flow through the forest and gather tributaries from it. The terrain is undulating, with often steep-sided river valleys. The soils are well- grained, deep, heavily leached clay-loans and clays, of generally low fertility. Rainfall is approximately 2,001 mm per year, decreasing from south to north, and apparently declining due to deforestation.
🎒 Leisure activities
This will provide opportunities for international volunteers to learn/ enjoy local life and exchange with local people, we have quit a number of tourists attractions and site seeing points e.g. Lake Victoria and other attraction sites.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteer to carry; mosquito nets, sleeping bag, a pillow and water purifying tablets. Chess, playing and tents are necessary.
🤝 Meeting point
Day 1: Arrival and pick up from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya and transfer to host family home or hostel.
Day 2: Morning: registration and start of orientation. About 4 hours lecture at the home of your host. Topics covered during orientation lecture will include East African culture, history, customs, politics, geography, and necessary health precautions, and various other topics, such as the diversity of Kenyan life. Afternoon is free for exploring rural Kenyan life and getting to know your host family.
Orientation will begin in the morning of the 9th August 2022 at ACoH offices and you will be picked up from accommodation and taken to the orientation will be conducted by ACoH staff in Nairobi and cover everything you need to know about your project placement.
ℹ️ Additional information
300 EUROS which includes project work, accommodation, all Meals, transport from the airport/transfer and to the project site, and 24 hours on side staff support.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
ACoH 08 /03
10/08/2022 → 30/08/2022
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
Kakamega, 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: 21:22 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
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