MTV-Projekte in Kenia: CIVS
Here you find the MTV-programme 2012 of CIVS (Kenya)
Monthly fee: The first month of your stay you will pay 200 € and 180 € for each subsequent month.
CIVS/MLTV/01/12 MARRIANNE CENTRE
Project Description:
People with a mental disability in Kenya (approximately 2.9 million) face extra challenges in their lives. Many Kenyans still associate people with a mental disability with black magic and witchcraft and little has been done to combat this stigmatization. Most people with a mental disability in this centre have a mild to moderate mental retardation. However, they can learn and are capable of developing skills throughout their lives. They have a wide range of talents that can be discovered.
The major shortcomings of the current educational system for young adults with a mental disability is that they are too old to be enrolled in a primary school, because of this, Marianne center was therefore established in the year 2010 to focus on people with a mild to moderate mental disability from the age of 16 till 50 years. Establishing a training center for this group has given them and their parents hope for a better future.
Currently, the centre has 38 students. The classes are divided according to the student’s abilities varying from Down syndrome to Autism. The young adults are trained in basic skills of life and vocational and income generating activities. At the end of the training their capabilities will be assessed and they will be attached to an employer where they get the possibility to perform basic tasks.
Location:
The project is located in Kiambu District, Wanguyu Location.
Nature of work:
The work consists of:
• Teaching activities in various subjects (mathematics, language, writing, drawing, gardening, sewing, beadwork and cleaning),
• Training in basic computers skills
• Organizing extra-curricular activities
• Helping in general work like cooking, cleaning etc.
• Provision of guiding and counseling services to the students
Accommodation:
The volunteer will be accommodated at the project location.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided at the centre.
Qualification:
It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You should be ready for any kind of work.
CIVS/MLTV/02/12 FLOMINA CHILDREN’S HOME
Project information:
Flomina Children’s Home is a charitable children’s institution located approximately 7 km from Buruburu estate in the east of Nairobi. This home has a total of 67 children; aged from 1 to 18 years. The home opened its gates in 2003 to rescue and take care of orphans, children of imprisoned parents, abused and abandoned. The founders of the home had to abandon their only sole business of buying and selling scraps and other recyclable waste materials bought from the street children to start the home. Flomina also faces a number of challenges ranging from educational materials, daily food supplies and general financial constraints. The home also engages in selling water, rabbit rearing, dairy goats for nutritional purposes and income generation.
Project mission: To provide shelter, basic education and health care to Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
Project vision: Empowering children with the basic knowledge to enable them contribute positively towards our national development and to foster self reliance.
Project Location:
The project is located in Kayole estate, Nairobi East District.
Nature of Work:
The volunteers will engage in working on organizational/office work which will include generation of fundraising ideas, helping in the kitchen in food preparation and serving of meals, promotion of creative arts and playing with children.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will be hosted at a host family in Buruburu estate.
Food:
Basic meals will be catered for at the host family. Lunch will be provided at the project site.
CIVS/MLTV/03/12 LITTLE PRINZ CHILDREN’S HELP
Project Description:
Little Prinz Children’s Help is a self-help group which was initiated in May 2009 to help the neglected, abandoned and orphaned children, as well as to help eradicate jiggers ( parasite that attacks the skin), thus creating a happier, healthier and a better life for the children. The project has so far been able to treat at least 1,250 jigger affected children, taken two malnourished children and saw them change completely and bought a twelve roomed building with the aim starting an orphanage. The building also has a farm which the project intends to start cultivating soon, as well as to start rabbit and chicken keeping for food and to generate an income for the children. However, the project also has some challenges in terms of an inadequate number of staff, as well as hostility from some families in the community.
Target Group: The target group consists of children from the local community between the ages of 0 - 17.
Location:
The project is located in Shinyalu village in Kakamega east district.
Nature of Work:
The volunteers will engage in the following activities: Care and maintenance of the children‘s home i.e. weeding, cleaning and renovations, jigger treatment and eradication which includes fieldwork and compiling reports.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will have a shared accommodation in the project building, with enough security and enough rooms.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided at the centre
You should have high motivation and like to work with children to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative.
CIVS/MLTV/04/12 CHILDREN RESCUE MISSION
Project Description:
The Children Rescue Mission, Kenya (CRM) was founded in 2005 following an increasing need for care of the increasing number of orphan children in Winam, area near Kisumu. From the late 1980s, children in this area became orphaned and destitute at increasing numbers. This was mainly due to the HIV/AIDS scourge, compounded by high levels of poverty in the area. By late 1990’s and in the turn of 2000, the number of orphaned children was overwhelming. The traditional culture among the local communities of supporting disadvantaged relatives in the form of their extended family could not contain the needs. The number of orphaned children, both total (both parents dead) as well as the single parented orphans that access only single meals in a day, who were not attending school, who walked in tattered clothing, and who slept without bedding became clearly noticeable as they frequently just walked to other fairly able households to beg for food. It was after taking in such needy children into their residences that the founders of CRM realized a common activity and decided to establish a feeding and care center for such affected children.
The activities of the center are locally coordinated by Tropical Focus for Rural Development, a local non-governmental organization. CRM currently accommodates and fully cares for 15 children. Care provided also includes educational needs, medical care, and clothing.
Target group:
The target group consists of orphans and vulnerable children from the local community.
Location:
The project is located in Winam, Kisumu East.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in caring for the orphaned and vulnerable children.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided at the centre.
CIVS/MLTV/05/12 SAFISHA AFRICA WELFARE FOUNDATION
Project Description:
Safisha Africa Welfare Foundation (SAWF) is a non-governmental- organization (NGO) which was established in 2008 and registered in 2010. SAWF is situated at Mowlem slum in Dandora, Nairobi East Region. The main purpose of SAWF is to offer a friendly learning environment within the area by establishing schools and recruiting and enrolling the marginalized, less fortunate and under privileged to access quality education. The project is envisaged to establish permanent education facilities with offices, classrooms, libraries, laboratories, hostels, recreational facilities and dining halls to promote long term and sustainable education to the community and beyond. SAWF will endeavor to promote other schools and education centers that share the same vision to access quality education. The project aims to empower the community to be self reliant with a view of transforming the socio/economic lives of people to be productive.
Project mission:
To empower, develop and transform the less fortunate and under privileged in the society through education towards realization of their full potential in the development.
Project vision:
To improve the welfare of the community by enabling them to access quality education.
Target Group:
The target group consists of children from the local community.
Location:
The project is located in Mowlem slum in Dandora, Nairobi East Region.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will engage in the following activities: Assist in teaching and caring for the children, preparing and serving of meals and fundraising activities especially for educational materials.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated in Buruburu approximately 7km to the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided but volunteers are expected to cater for the cost of lunch on their own.
Special remarks:
You should have high motivation and like to work with children to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative.
CIVS/MLTV/06/12 HOPE AND FAITH CENTRE
Project Description:
Hope and Faith Centre is a project for the disabled and is located in Central Province, Thika District at Juja location in Kahawa Sukari Estate. The centre started as a result of demand from the community members, especially parents and guardians of children with a disability, who came together after awareness creation on disability issues by the founder of centre. Through various consultation meetings, they agreed to support the founder of the organization in establishing a centre to cater for the social, spiritual, physical and occupational needs for their children. The home is currently catering to 45 children who have multiple disabilities and their ages range from 5 to 22 years. 20 of these children are enrolled in different special schools and 25 are staying at the centre.
Location:
The project is located in Thika district, Central Province.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in teaching i.e. non formal through individual education program, preparing and serving meals to the children, laundry work, bead work and home to home visits.
Accommodation:
The volunteer will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
All the meals will be provided at the centre and the volunteer will eat together with the children.
, clothes, books, pens, toys etc. if you can.
Qualification:
Volunteers with special skills in occupational therapy are encouraged to apply. It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative.
CIVS/MLTV/07/12 RURAL VISIONS CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Project Description:
Rural Visions Children’s Centre was founded in 2003 to give a home and also cater for basic needs of orphaned children. The centre is located in Soweto slums in Kayole estate, Nairobi east region. Currently the centre caters for 25 children; 13 boys and 12 girls aged from 5 to 17 years. These children live and learn at the centre. The centre also experiences some challenges such as inadequate learning materials, lack of proper classrooms and kitchen. Despite the challenges, the children are able to get education and at least three meals a day.
Location:
The project is located in Kayole estate, Nairobi east region.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in
• Teaching (Mathematics, English, Science, Social Studies)
• Preparing and serving of meals
• Games with the children
• Fundraising
Accommodation:
The volunteer will be accommodated at a host family in Buruburu.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided at the host family.
Qualification:
It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative. You should be ready for any kind of work.
CIVS/MLTV/08/12 NJIRU COMMUNITY PROGRESSIVE FOCUS CENTRE
Project Description:
Njiru Community Progressive Focus Centre is a Community Based Organization (CBO) in Njiru slums in Nairobi. It was initiated in 2007 as a non-profit making organization registered with the Ministry of Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services. The centre seeks to act as a catalyst for promoting early childhood development and education in the Njiru community. It has supported over 150 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) from all backgrounds since its inception. It currently offers informal and formal education to 134 children, and provides boarding facilities for 20 children.
Its initial aim was to address community problems as a whole e.g. rehabilitation of street kids, community mobilization on fighting against HIV/AIDS, addressing issues of drug abuse, empowering the disabled and the elderly, promoting sustainable income generating activities etc. The centre was however forced by prevailing circumstances to start up a facility for early childhood development and a boarding school. It aims at mitigation of the socio-economic impact on OVC’s with regard to health, education, psycho-social, spiritual and material support. The centre has also introduced a school feeding program to attract children to school and reduce hunger when they learn. Currently there are 18 children living in the center (12 girls and 6 boys), other children come for school and live at home with guardians. Many of the children are victims of abuse and thus the center acts as a rescue center. There are also a number of challenges which include insufficient food, learning materials, poor classrooms and accommodation.
Goal:
To have a sustainable early childhood development and education institution where every child in the community will get the best education.
Nature of work:
The work consists of teaching activities in various subjects, caring for the children and playing with them and also fundraising efforts for educational materials.
Accommodation:
The volunteer will be accommodated at a host family in Buruburu estate.
Food:
Basic meals will be provided at the project.
Qualification:
It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative. You should be ready for any kind of work.
CIVS/MLTV/09/12 CHESIRE VOCATIONAL CENTRE
Project Description:
Chesire Vocational Centre is a vocational centre for girls between 15 and 25 years. Some of them are physically challenged and have retarded growth and are from extremely poor families. The project is located in Central Province, Tigoni village just in the outskirts of Nairobi. The centre was initiated and is being supported by the Catholic Church. The home is currently catering to 28 girls. They stay at the centre during the school calendar i.e. January-March, May-July and September –December.
Through the centre, the girls are trained to be self reliant and the following courses are offered:
• Knitting
• Weaving
• Beadwork
• Tie and Dye
• Computer studies
• Catering
Location:
The project is located in Kiambu district, Central Province of Kenya.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in
• Teaching i.e. non formal through individual education program
• Preparing and serving meals together with girls
• Computer teaching to the girls
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
All the meals will be provided at the centre and volunteers will eat together with the girls at the centre.
Qualification:
Volunteers with special skills in creativity in beadwork, tailoring, computer skills are encouraged to apply. It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative.
Special remarks:
This is a strictly religious centre and therefore taking of alcohol and smoking is not permitted at the centre.
CIVS/MLTV/10/12 CIVS COMMUNITY SERVICE (CIVS)
Project Description:
Centre for International Voluntary Service (CIVS) is a non-profit voluntary service based in Kenya founded in 1993 with an aim of providing innovative and competent support services to empower communities and organizations aimed at stimulating self–development initiative among the disadvantaged members of the society as well as developing harmonious relations among people of different backgrounds and cultures. This is achieved by boosting the people’s pride, dignity and self-confidence.
CIVS has no religious or political affiliations but provides technical assistance to a cross-section of self-help initiatives in order to enhance their capacity to improve quality of their services and attain greater efficiency and effectiveness.
CIVS facilitates short, medium and long term volunteer attachments for technical and non-technical volunteers, development personnel and students, to appropriate institutions and projects so as to enable them to offer services, learn, and gain exposure and experience in specific fields of interest.
Location:
The project is located in Buruburu estate, Nairobi region of Kenya.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in fundraising efforts for community development projects.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at a host family in Buruburu within a walking distance to the CIVS office.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host family but the volunteers are expected to cater for the cost of lunch on their own.
Qualification:
Volunteers are expected to be able to communicate in English. It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project.
CIVS/MLTV/11/12 COMMUNITY HEALTH VOLUNTEERS
Project Description:
Community Health Volunteers is a community based organization established in 2006 with its office in Virhembe Market. The group was started up with the aim of building the capacity of the community and members to design and implement quality HIV/AIDS interventions, as well as to support people living with HIV/AIDS by increasing access and improving the quality of healthcare and referral service for them through increased linkages with the Ministry of Health. The group also aims to promote safe sexual behavior and practice among youth at risk and vulnerable groups.
Community Health Volunteers in collaboration with DANIDA are establishing a dispensary and a computer training center which will be used as a learning center for the youths from this community. This will be the only dispensary and resource center within this area that will serve the sick and the youth in this community.
Location:
The project is located in Virhembe market, Kakamega east district.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will work in the dispensary assisting the medical staff, and also at the computer training center teaching basic computer skills.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at a host family near the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host family but the volunteers are expected to cater for the cost of lunch on their own.
Qualification:
Volunteers with computer skills as well as those in the medical field (doctors, nurses, etc) are needed for this project. It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You should be ready for any kind of work.
CIVS/MLTV/12/12 PEMA EDUCATIONAL CENTRE
Project Description:
Pema Educational Centre has been providing early childhood development, care, protection and education to orphans and vulnerable children through creatively tapping into and activating the local potential for self-help since 2006. Its core values include unconditional respect and promotion of human dignity and cultural diversity, gender equity and hard work and stewardship of human and material resources. They collaborate with the youth to empower them to be proactive by involving them in community exercises. They aim to facilitate the access of vulnerable members of the community to quality educational and health services. Pema has also been instrumental in promoting sustainable urban agriculture as well as starting savings and credits services that give members micro loans based on their savings.
Location:
The project is located in Buruburu, Nairobi.
Mission: To promote inclusive social development through community-embedded practical projects in education and health.
Goal: To ensure that no child misses their childhood and the rights to care, protection and quality early childhood development and health services.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in teaching the children (early childhood development) as well as teaching in the adult education program. They will also be involved in public health education and awareness programs.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at a host family in Buruburu.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host family
Qualification:
The volunteers should have the interest to translate millennium development goals into practical projects and activities at the local level. It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative.
CIVS/MLTV/13/12 SLUM SANAA
Project Description:
Slum Sanaa (“Sanaa” is Swahili for “Arts”) is a Community-Based Organization established to promote arts-based activities in the slums. Slum Sanaa aims to create a Community Arts Centre with artistes’ studios, dance studio, recording studio, design studio and an exhibition space; a base where talents interact, learn, create, and share new ideas and network in order to develop well organized art groups. These facilities are to be at the slum-based level that is closer to the people. The focus is mostly on young boys and girls between the ages of 10–25 years who wish to utilize their talents and by extension, unemployed youths and artists. There are several schools within close vicinity where we provide music lessons after classes and during weekends. The community art centre uses the mediums of music, dance, drama, and the visual arts to convey information to the community, and the nobler aim is to promote Peace, Unity, Reconciliation, Understanding and National Healing between slum-dwellers with these areas being the hotbed and most affected during the Post-Election violence after the disputed 2007 elections. Slum Sanaa has an existing structure with membership open to everyone regardless of tribe, religion, race or affiliations.
Target Group:
The target group consists of the youths from the neighboring slums.
Location:
Slum Sanaa is located in the East of Nairobi, in Mathare slums.
Nature of Work:
Volunteers will be involved in training like photography, videography, drama, music, video and documentary production, animation and design.
Accommodation:
The volunteer will live in a host family in Buruburu 7 km from the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided in the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities. Volunteers with special skills in on arts are encouraged to apply.
CIVS/MLTV/14/12 TUNZA CHILDREN’S HOME
Project information: Tunza children’s home is located approximately 30 km from Nairobi city, south west of Ngong town. This home has a total of 118 children, 60 in primary, 38 in secondary and 20 in pre-school. Since its inception in the year 1998 under the founder Dimina Khasiala (famously known as Mama Tunza which in Swahili means taking care of), the home has developed from the marshy slums of Kibera where abandoned orphaned children used to be nursed and cared for to the now present modern structure located 20 minutes drive from Ngong town. The home will therefore give volunteers an opportunity to get up-close and personal with this young growing nation that have been neglected and get a chance to assist in feeding, clothing and educating them while actively assisting in the management of the home. For those who have a passion for young children in Kenya, then this is a good opportunity for you to come and assist us in making the lives of these kids better through your volunteer spirit.
Project mission: To provide shelter, care, and basic education to orphans and vulnerable children.
Project vision: Empowering children with the basic knowledge to enable them to contribute positively towards our national development and also to provide vocational training to those children who cannot excel in academic field.
Nature of Work:
The volunteers will engage in working on organizational/office work which will include generation of fundraising ideas, helping in the kitchen in food preparation and cooking, promotion of education and other related affairs i.e. teaching.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will be hosted at the project site.
Food:
Basic meals will be catered for at the project site.
CIVS/MLTV/15/12 LITTLE BEES CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Project information:
Little Bees Children Self Help Group is a community based organization that was founded by 20 women in 2000. It has diverse objectives meant to improve the lives and livelihood of the community especially the orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), widows, youth and less privileged in the society. The group operates in the sprawling Madoya slums of Huruma, Nairobi.
The group has established itself and reached a big number of beneficiaries in areas such as providing quality education to the destitute children, school feeding programme and rescue to victims of rape. The group has also established Little Bees Educational Centre. The centre has 317 students from Nursery class to Standard 8. The majority of the students come from poor backgrounds and thus this centre has granted them an opportunity to access education and a feeding program.
Apart from education, the group also engages in the following programs:
a. Water and Sanitation-The project provides safe drinking water to the community at a minimal fee which also goes towards supporting its activities. The sanitation program has also led to a stop of ‘flying toilets’ which were a common nuisance in the slums.
b. Environmental protection-The group also engages in vegetable farming as a part of environmental rehabilitation and protection.
c. Posho Mill-The group runs a posho mill, where they grind maize and sell the flour to support its activities.
Project mission: To work in partnership with other organizations to improve the welfare of the poor through provision of socio-economic amenities.
Project vision: To see the poor and neglected people enjoy better lives.
Objectives:
• To provide quality early childhood education to poor children.
• To provide school feeding programme in Little Bees School.
• To engage in environmental and personal hygiene and sanitation transformation programmes.
• To train the youth and women on various vocational skills relevant to the job market.
Nature of Work: The volunteers will be involved in the following areas:
• Teaching in the primary school: Mathematics, English, Science and Social Studies
• Fundraising for the project
• Workshops on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, drug and substance abuse
• Assisting in preparation and serving of meals
• Creative arts-promotion of skills and talents
• Organizing debates to boost students confidence
• Guidance and counseling
Accommodation:
The volunteer will live in a host family in Buruburu 7 km from the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided in the host family.
CIVS/MLTV/16/12 JOY VALLEY CHILDREN’S HOME
Project Description:
The Joy Valley Children’s Home was started in 2005. The project aims to educate, provide shelter and also empower the less privileged children in the community. Its objective is to fight poverty by educating the children as well as giving vocational training in order to create self employment opportunities which will lead to the betterment of the children’s futures. Joy Valley also caters for people with special needs, both physical and mental disabilities. It also tries to identify and encourage different talents in the children such as football, drama and many others.
Location:
The project is located in Kayole, Nairobi.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in teaching, taking care of the children, playing with them, sports activities, fundraising for the project, creative arts training and guidance and counseling.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
Basic meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) will be provided at the project.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/17/12 KYALE SMALL HOME
Project Description: Kyale Small Home is a home and school for physically handicapped children situated in the Eastern part of Kenya. It was established in 1994 by the Catholic diocese of Machakos. The Catholic Church and a primary school surround the home. Currently the home is hosting 20 kids. The children are both girls and boys between ages of 10-19 years who suffer different disabilities from polio, snake bites, handicapped from birth or during birth and accidents of different causes. Most people speak Kikamba as a native language. Farming is widely practiced for example livestock, poultry, small scale farming of maize, beans, coffee, sweet potatoes, bananas and vegetables. Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain is clearly visible from the home. This place has beautiful typical traditional Akamba, old homes made by the Kamba people.
Target group:
The target group is physically handicapped children and youth between 10 and 19 years.
Location:
The project site is situated in the Eastern Province of Kenya; in Nunguni village that is about three hours drive from Nairobi.
Nature of Work:
The volunteer will have different tasks at the Kyale Small Home. The work includes working alongside the housemother for providing basic needs to the children, work in the home’s kitchen and vegetable garden and help children study and play at home. Volunteers will also work in the promotion of education among the children. They will also train the kids in creativity through games and doing handicraft work.
Accommodation:
The volunteer will live at the project site.
Food:
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided in the project site where the volunteer will also be living.
Special remarks:
The volunteer should be interested and used to work with children and/or youth who are physically challenged. The volunteer should also show initiative.
CIVS/MLTV/18/12 KIERENI SECONDARY SCHOOL
Project information:
The project is a learning institution for secondary students comprising of 164 students both boys and girls, the school has four classes. The school was established in 1987 by the PCEA church. The institution has both teaching staff as well as non teaching staff who have the responsibility to nurture the students to becoming relevant people in the society. It offers educational services which are relevant to the growth of the local community. The school offers boarding facilities to the students to enable them have a clear concentration to their studies in the school. The school offers the volunteers a change to assist in teaching the following subjects: English, Physics and Mathematics. Volunteers will also be involved in sporting activities, drama, music, debating clubs, farm work, organizing for language sessions, helping the students in studying and assisting in the examination of the students.
Target Group:
The target group consists of the local community’s students.
Location:
The project is located in Chuka District, Kiereni Location, about 250 km from Nairobi.
Nature of Work:
Teaching a combination of science subjects and Mathematics, organizing, coordinating and participating in extracurricular activities like athletics, football, and coordination of clubs in the school like scouting, drama, music, environmental conservation and farm work.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will be hosted at family within the school compound.
Food:
All the meals will be catered for at the project.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/19/12 BETHEL MINISTRIES SCHOOL
Project information:
Bethel Ministries School was established to offer secondary education to young needy students who could not afford the fee to join secondary school. The school is also geared towards eradicating illiteracy. There is also an established non-formal educational program which offers technical skills to the youths. Currently there are 80 students in the center. There are also a number of challenges to this institution which are: inadequate chairs, desks, beds, mattresses and game kits. Students are also forced to eat in the open air due to lack of space and dining hall.
Project mission:
To provide quality education, care and mentorship to the less fortunate youth.
Location:
The project is located in Rift Valley province, Maai-Mahiu in Kenya, about 100 km from Nairobi.
Nature of Work:
The volunteers will engage in teaching activities in the following subjects: Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Biology, and Business Studies. They will also employ the use of sporting activities to further create responsibility, team work and creativity in the students.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will be hosted at a family near the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be catered for at the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/20/12 YOUTH FOR LIFE-KENYA
Project Description:
Youth for Life - Kenya was founded in Kenya in the year 2004 as a non-profit organization. The main goal of Youth for Life - Kenya is to facilitate the development of capacities of individuals and groups in such a way as to improve the quality of their lives. The priority target group of Youth for Life - Kenya is the youths, children and young adults between 10 and 30 years. The project recognizes and appreciates the potential and assets inherent in young people. It endeavors to promote the creation of an enabling environment in which youths are able to showcase their capabilities and to advocate for and provide accessible opportunities through which they can be involved in finding solutions and to acquire the needed knowledge and skills.
Activities undertaken by the group include:
HIV/AIDS Education Program - HIV/AIDS support group-orphans and vulnerable children support program
• Girl child empowerment program - sanitary towels provision, girl child mentorship program
• Drugs program
• Environmental management program - community outreach, community environment desk
• Youth pay back system; soft loans for entrepreneurship
• Youth talk show program; open dialogue
Mission: To reach out to the youth in the society, with the aim of facilitating integral growth through information dissemination, capacity building, networking and knowledge sharing.
Location:
Youth for life Kenya is located in Suburbs of Nairobi, Athi River about 40 km from Nairobi.
Nature of Work for the volunteers:
The volunteers will engage in the following activities: organizing and carrying out trainings on safe sex, reproductive health drug abuse, HIV/AIDS prevention, distribution of sanitary towels to needy girls.
Accommodation:
The volunteer will live in a host family near the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided in the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/21/12 SOUTHERN STARS JUNIOR SCHOOL
Project Description:
The Junior School was started in September 2006 with a population of only 12 children and 5 teachers. Now it is a full school from Kindergarten to class 8 with a population of 300 children. It is both day and boarding. Southern Stars is managed by Southern Stars Self Help Group. The group is registered by the Ministry of Social Services of the Kenya government. The members are professional trained teachers who were unemployed but decided to come together to start the school.
Vision: To be one of the renowned providers of education services to children from all backgrounds.
Mission: To provide means to quality and affordable future by equipping the child with practical life approach skills.
School Objectives
• To nurture the future of the children.
• To mould children to become responsible citizens in future.
• To equip children with necessary skills to assist them face future life.
• To engage the community in supporting children to achieve their academic goals.
• To be part of the millennium development goal on quality education for all.
Target Groups: The target groups are children from poor backgrounds from within the community.
Location:
The Southern Stars Junior School is located in Coastal Region, Kwale District about 500 km from Nairobi.
Nature of Work for the volunteers:
The work of the volunteers will engage in the following activities: Teaching i.e. Mathematics, English and Social Studies. Helping in preparation and serving of meals during the feeding program, sports, drama and music.
Accommodation:
The volunteer will live in a host family near the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided in the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/22/12 LIVING IN TOTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
Project Description:
Living in Total Health Initiative (LITHI) is a community initiative project that was initiated in 2010 to serve the people of Kiambio Slums in Nairobi by offering cheaper and affordable yet effective medical and counseling services. Since the establishment of the project the local community has benefited tremendously as they no longer walk for long distances to get these services. Thanks to the project, lives have been saved and people have been made aware of major issues affecting them. The establishment of the centre has thus created employment to both the skilled and unskilled. The centre has increased the knowledge of the community in Kiambio slum on HIV/AIDS, i.e. how to protect oneself from getting infected, living with the virus positively as well as help reduce stigma.
Vision: To be one of the renowned providers of education services to children from all backgrounds.
Mission: To provide the means for a quality and affordable future by equipping the child with practical life approach skills.
School Objectives
• To nurture the future of the children.
• To mould children to become responsible citizens in future.
• To equip children with necessary skills to assist them face future life.
• To engage the community in supporting children to achieve their academic goals.
• To be part of the millennium development goal on quality education for all.
Target Groups:
The people of Kiambio slums who are HIV/AIDS infected and affected.
Location:
Kiambio Slum in Nairobi East
Nature of Work for the volunteers:
The volunteers will engage in the following activities:
• Nursing duties i.e cleaning and dressing wounds administering injections as prescribed by the doctors.
• Lab assistance i.e . taking blood samples, urine and stool.
• Assiting in record keeping.
• Patient follow up especially those who are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS or Tuberculosis.
• Social work i.e. HIV/AIDS counseling home visits and follow up.
• Data collection
Accommodation:
The volunteer will live in a host family in Buruburu estate, a walking distance to the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided in the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/23/12 SUNFLOWER EDUCATION CENTRE
Project information:
Sunflower Education Center was initiated in the year 2007 by the Essabula Support Group for Orphans. The project was established with a common interest to encourage and educate the orphaned children who were idle and roaming around the village. The group consists of eighty seven pupils; forty three boys and forty four girls. Due to the increased rate of HIV/AIDS the group saw it necessary to empower the women of that community to join in the fight against HIV/AIDS and sensitize on the best ways to prevent infection. The group supports its activities by small money contributions which they use to pay the local teachers who regularly come to teach the children in the group’s school. Since most of its members practice small scale farming they are able to provide food stuffs which they use in the feeding program. The children live with different families enabling them to live a normal life like other children and get parental care.
Target group: The target group consists of orphans and vulnerable children from the local community.
Location:
The project is located in Emuhaya District in Western Kenya, about 400km from Nairobi.
Nature of Work:
The volunteers will be responsible for working together with the local teachers in helping to teach in: Math, English, Science and Physical Education. The volunteers will also assist in the feeding program i.e. preparing the meals on a daily basis as well as feeding the children.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will be hosted at family near the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be catered for at the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/24/12 NIXJ SUPER SAVERS
Project information:
The NIXJ Super Savers is a Community Based Organization group located in Kisauni location, Mombasa town in Coast Province of Kenya. The project has developed a special niche in advocating, sharing and exchange of information in sustainable projects which generate income and also improve livelihoods per household level. This project is mainly focused on working with vulnerable households, especially orphans and widows, to enhance livelihoods positively by engaging them in production projects, sanitation and social transforming aspects.
The CBO has initiated a school, Olives Community Hill School, which currently has seven trained teachers and an interim that ensures the day to day activities run well. It has a total of 80 pupils but the number goes up every school term. The school has three streams of nursery (ECD) class and four streams of primary classes’ i.e. Standard 1, 2, 3 and 4. The CBO also organizes annual economic seminars for youth on poverty eradication and financial empowerment in line with the Millennium Development Goals. The CBO is currently supporting 24 orphans from different families and creating awareness on the dangers of HIV/AIDS through seminars, guidance and training on projects that generate income per household and sustain their living.
Target group:
The target group consists of orphans and vulnerable children from the local community.
Location:
The project is located in Mombasa town, Coast Province.
Nature of Work:
The volunteers will be involved in the following activities:
• Teaching Mathematics, English and Science at the kindergarten as well as the lower primary school
• Assist in preparation of meals for the orphans feeding program
• Feeding the minors
• Sports activities as well as training the children on creative arts
Accommodation:
Volunteers will be hosted at a family near the project site.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be catered for at the host family.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/25/12 ST. CHARLES LWANGA CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Project Description:
St. Charles Lwanga Children’s Centre is a vocational training and rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities and special needs. The project was started in 2008 with the main goal being to empower these children with life skills and technological know how. Currently the centre hosts 17 young adults. The center also helps them to cope with the stigma associated with children with disabilities and special needs, because sometimes their parents fear taking them to ‘normal ‘schools.
The centre offers the following services:
• Guidance and counseling to the children, parents and guardians
• Provision of basic Secondary Education and vocational training
• Community based health care and hygiene
• Technical training e.g. carpentry, beadwork, embroidery, agriculture, tailoring
Location: The Eastern part of Nairobi, Ruai approximately 30 km form Buruburu where the CIVS office is located.
Mission: To provide a nurturing environment full of love, care and concern for the welfare of the children with special needs. To empower them with skills that will enable them face life with a more enthusiastic approach.
Vision: To make a difference in the life of young people with special needs and disabilities in order to be self reliant and easily integrate them into the main stream of life without fear or stigmatization.
Nature of work:
The volunteers will be involved in offering lessons in Math, English and sciences (Physics, Biology and Chemistry), assisting in the kitchen department in preparation of meals, as well as guidance and counseling. Volunteers with special skills such as carpentry, tailoring, bead making and sign language are also highly needed.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated by a host family.
Food:
Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host family, but the volunteers will be expected to cater for the cost of lunch on their own.
Qualification:
The volunteers should have the interest to translate millennium development goals into practical projects and activities at the local level. It is necessary that you should have high motivation and lots of initiative to implement the objectives of the project. You may need communication skills beyond language, so be creative. You should be motivated and ready for any kind of work.
CIVS/MLTV/26/12 ROSEMARY VOCATIONAL CENTRE
Project Description:
Rosemary Vocational Centre (RVC) was started in 2010 as a community based organization (CBO). The young centre has a home based care program for the 60 children in the Rongai area of Nkoroi. The centre also hosts 15 children with various physical disabilities. There are about 6 staff members who are operating on part-time basis. Basic needs and counseling are the initial provisions for the children in the centre while the other children are cared for in their parental or guardian homes.
Location: The project is located in Rongai.
Nature of work: The volunteers will engage in the following:
• Playing with the children
• Understanding their tender age and environmental requirements
• Helping out in any planned and creative vocational activities
• Arranging for visitors tours with express approval from social workers and RVC management
• Initiating sustainable mini projects as well as helping raise resources for RVC
• Participating in managerial planning, organization and implementation with invitation from management
• Carrying out any duties as directed by the RVC management
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
Basic meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) will be provided at the project.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/27/12 KAYA KINONDO ECOTOURISM PROJECT
Project Description:
In Coastal Kenya the local sacred forest are called Kayas. They are pockets of forest of 10 to 400 ha found in the Kwale, Kilifi and Malindi Districts of Coast Province and owe their existence directly to the cultural beliefs and history of the nine (9) Coastal Mijikenda ethnic groups.
Kaya Kinondo, the senior most Kaya (home) for the Digo people is in Kwale District of the Coast Province. It is found a few meters from the Indian Ocean beach. It is located next to the Diani beach which is internationally recognized as a tourist destination.
Kaya Kinondo is the first Mijikenda sacred forest to open up for controlled ecotourism and the first such activity in the whole of Kenya Coast. The project came about after a feasibility study was done and concluded that the local community led by the elders supported the idea.
Kaya Kinondo ecotourism project is a pilot project that seeks to initiate and test the viability of ecotourism as a means of linking conservation to tangible social and economic benefits of local community. A conservation and development group was formed with an aim of coordinating conservation and development activities in the area. All proceedings of the project go towards maintenance of the Kaya, cultural ceremonies, community projects such as schools and water projects. Finally, through a financial services association established by the community as part of the project, the project gives loans to community groups and individuals within the area to initiate income generating micro projects.
Location: The project is located in Kwale District.
Nature of work: The volunteers will engage in the following:
• Education program (awareness)
• Enterprise management (ecotourism and microfinance)
• Marketing
• Ecosystem survey and assessment
• Environmental and cultural awareness
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
Basic meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) will be provided at the project.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/28/12 UPENDO CHILDREN’S VILLAGE
Project Description:
Upendo Children’s Village is located in Ukunda, about 30 km south of Mombasa near the popular holiday area of Diani Beach. Our goal is to provide the children with a permanent and loving home, good education and to prepare them for a self-dependent life.
Location: The project is located in Ukunda.
Nature of work: The volunteers will engage in the following:
• Taking care of the children as well as playing with them.
• Feeding the children.
• Ensuring the compound is clean.
• Helping the children with homework.
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site.
Food:
Basic meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) will be provided at the project.
Special Remarks:
All volunteers are required to speak English well enough to communicate and carry out the activities.
CIVS/MLTV/29/12-Kipepeo Community Empowerment Programme
Project Description: The Kipepeo Community Empowerment Program was born in October 2009 with a singular belief: that every human being in our corner of the world possesses the right to dignity and a respectable livelihood, and that it is our duty to support one another in achieving a better standard of living for all.
Location: The project is located in Emuhaya District in Western Kenya, about 400km from Nairobi.
Nature of work: The group undertakes the following activities:
1. Capacity-building-This is a structure which involves educational training programs in leadership, group management, and financial skills
2. HIV/AIDS awareness trainings, counseling, home-based care
3. Provisional computer services for the community, such as typesetting, printing, photocopy services
4. Youth empowerment activities such as sports, theatre, career development and drug abuse training, as well as building overall awareness and engagement through youth group projects.
The volunteers will be responsible for working together with the group members and the community in realizing the following activities: School outreach programmes; Capacity building of youths on issues related to HIV/AIDS; Establishment of support groups within the communities; Awareness creation in the community on sexual and reproductive health; Career development