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Country: KENYA
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Program description: |
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Volunteer in Kenya by teaching English, working in an orphanage, helping with health care projects, HIV/AIDS education, work on a conservation project or an animal care project. Experience Kenya through a mini-adventure program in addition to your volunteering experience, or on its own. Spend two weeks learning about Kenya's Language and Culture. Kenyan rural schools lack English teachers. The demand for English-speaking teachers is very high in this market. To fill this gap, your volunteer contribution in teaching English would be highly appreciated by the Kenyan people. The majority of Kenyans wish to increase the English skills of their children, and are very welcoming to volunteers in this project. Teaching English in Kenya is very challenging; however, our knowledgeable staff will provide you with a proper orientation and teaching materials, including a textbook for the class. Most of the students where we place volunteers already understand basic English. You will be teaching a group of 20-35 in a class.
Global Crossroad can place volunteers in a number of postings from formal to informal English programs in Kenya. Besides teaching the English class, you can put your English skills to use with oral practice, games, or teaching math, social science, health science or other subjects. If you want to use your free time to explore rural Kenya, please talk to our national coordinator. You can enjoy your explorations accompanied by the students. Teach English in Kenya and explore the wonders of East Africa
Teach English:
Kenyan rural schools lack English teachers. The demand for English-speaking teachers is very high in this market. To fill this gap, your volunteer contribution in teaching English would be highly appreciated by the Kenyan people. The majority of Kenyans wish to increase the English skills of their children, and are very welcoming to volunteers in this project. Teaching English in Kenya is very challenging; however, our knowledgeable staff will provide you with a proper orientation and teaching materials, including a textbook for the class. Most of the students where we place volunteers already understand basic English. You will be teaching a group of 20-35 in a class.
Global Crossroad can place volunteers in a number of postings from formal to informal English programs in Kenya. Besides teaching the English class, you can put your English skills to use with oral practice, games, or teaching math, social science, health science or other subjects. If you want to use your free time to explore rural Kenya, please talk to our national coordinator. You can enjoy your explorations accompanied by the students. Teach English in Kenya and explore the wonders of East Africa
Work in an Orphanage:
Choose to spend a more meaningful vacation, participate in a service project, and contribute your valuable time to work with orphaned children in Kenya. In collaboration with our local partner in Kenya, Global Crossroad invites enthusiastic volunteers who can provide care and support to underprivileged children in Kenya. Help is needed to improve the living conditions in the group home and provide educational activities for the children.
Orphanage placements in Kenya are always rewarding. While on this project volunteers will work in the front lines to feed and provide assistance to these forgotten little ones. Kids in these centers need your special encouragement to revive their hope for a meaningful future life. Your work in this project is very challenging and much appreciated by the children. Most of the time volunteers will be teaching English and assisting the kids with creative activities such as painting, drawing, and dancing. In addition to this, volunteers help in the kitchen preparing meals, and washing dishes and clothes. Volunteers' storytelling skills will be put to good use inspiring and motivating the children. Work in orphanage is the most popular volunteer projects in Kenya
Health Care Management:
Volunteer in Kenya program manages health projects to medical students or professionals. Participating in a health care volunteer project opens tremendous opportunities for volunteers to experience new opportunities in their lives and careers, allows volunteers to immerse themselves in another culture, and provides a positive contribution to the community where health care volunteers are needed. Opportunities are available in a number of rural health centers in Kenya. Volunteers will provide health education, assist dentists, or help provide medical treatment to patients. While working on this project, volunteers will share knowledge, time, skills and talents with the health care staff of the centers.
Volunteers in the health care project will also engage in some of the vital activities of medical treatment such as dressing wounds, taking patients' histories, counseling patients, providing assurance and moral support to patients' families, and disbursing medicines. While working in this project you will become highly involved with the needs of the medical field, where each of the health centers get about 10-40 patients per day.
HIV/AIDS Awareness and Care:
Global Crossroad's volunteer in Kenya project now offers opportunities to work on AIDS projects. Every years AIDS claims the lives of thousands of Kenyan children and adults. It is estimated that about 900,000 Kenyans are infected with HIV/AIDS and that number is expanding rapidly. Real efforts are therefore needed to prevent human disaster in this millennium. In collaboration with local groups, Global Crossroad has established HIV/AIDS projects seeking to foster awareness among the local communities.
Ideally, volunteers in this project will be trained together with the local experts for a period of one week. For the following weeks, volunteers and local experts will together engage in training, education, and demonstration activities to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in the local Kenyan population. As this project is very challenging participants should be prepared to learn and also train others as this project goes forward.
Nature Conservation Project:
Evergreen Kinale forest harbors thousands of irreplaceable plants and animals. With this diversity on constant display, volunteers in the nature conservation project undergo a remarkable experience of living and working with nature of Kenya, almost untouched by the modern era. Located at the edge of Rift Valley, Kinale forest is the home of hundreds of species of birds.
This nature conservation project focuses on preserving birds and indigenous tree species that are most important to ensure the local ecosystem continues to flourish. This program is run by a local non-profit organization called Kenya Nature Conservation Volunteers. Volunteers in this project live in a traditional Kenyan village and work with groups of high school graduates in examining bird behaviors by following their migratory patterns, identifying nest making habits, feeding, breeding and other habits. Conservation project is an important addition on our ongoing volunteer program in Kenya
Animal Health Care:
Animal health care is our new project in volunteer in Kenya program. About 25 km from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, volunteers have a unique opportunity to work with animals under the local veterinarian and rescue mistreated farm animals. This placement is truly inspiring to veterinary students or anyone else with a love of animals.
Volunteers in this project assist the resident veterinary surgeon. Duties may include handling animals and animal feeds, filling out and keeping animal records and supplying animal medicines. Volunteers are not required to have prior knowledge of animal care or even veterinary medicine as they will be provided with an orientation sufficient for carrying out all required tasks.
The Mini-Adventure Program:
Experience the world's most famous gathering of animals in one place - the spectacular annual wildebeest migration. Meet the traditional Maasai on their ancestral lands, and watch millions of wild animals in their natural habitat at Kenya's renowned game reserve. The exquisite Maasai Mara Game Reserve is especially magical during this wildebeest migration, when the masses of wildebeest migrating from Serengeti in Tanzania throng north by the hundreds of thousands into the Mara's tree-dotted savannah in search of lush grasses and water. Our mini adventure program provides an opportunity for volunteers to explore a beautiful range of Kenyan habitats and experience the rural life of the Kenyan people.
Our mini-adventure program is very carefully designed with the concept of volunteering and traveling abroad, meeting local people, returning with a lasting memory, and impacting other lives as well as your own. Volunteers begin the first stage of their program by serving some of the most underprivileged and abandoned children in Kenya. These kids need love, hugs, and education. Spending time and energy in this project will indeed prove to be a truly noble endeavor, and provide hope for a better world for these children. In the second phase of the program we provide an opportunity to explore the grand country of the Maasai Mara plains and game reserve. Experience intriguing cultural encounters while tracking game cross-country in spacious minivans. Live the adventure!
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General program information: |
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Program open to: Everyone
How long does the program last?: 1-2 weeks
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Benefits and advantages of the program: |
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Like no other continent in the world, Africa offers breathtaking scenery, unparalleled wildlife, and rich cultures. Inviting tropical beaches, evocative scenery as in the movie Out of Africa, abundant wildlife, and a mosaic of different cultures and traditions in Kenya offer visitors a feeling of Karibu, a Swahili word meaning welcome home visitors. Global Crossroad's Kenya volunteer program brings you endless opportunities to explore this East African adventure land revered by anthropologists as the cradle of humanity. See this country in a different light as you join a Kenya volunteer project, explore Kenyan villages, practice Swahili, or join a jungle safari program. Explore the great land of Africa while serving the rural population affected by AIDS, poverty, and other social problems.
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Cost or price of this program: |
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From $1099. ($470 for two week language and culture program, only available to volunteers working on other programs.)
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