Kenia
Kenia ist eine Republik im Osten Afrikas. Das Land hat eine Fläche von 582,644 km² und ist damit etwas größer als Frankreich. Die Hauptstadt ist Nairobi. In Kenia leben 58 Mio. Menschen, davon ca. 6 Mio. in Nairobi. Kenia ist kulturell und ethnisch sehr heterogen und bunt. Englisch, Kiswahili und über 30 weitere Sprachen werden hier gesprochen.
Unsere Partnerorganisation ist CIVS (Center for International Voluntary Service) Kenia mit Sitz in Nairobi. CIVS ist ein Verein, der vor allem in marginalisierten und von Armut betroffenen ländlichen Regionen Kenias tätig ist.
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Experience Kenia – Community und NGOs: CIVS Community Service
CIVS Kenya is a community development organization that works with communities in the marginalized and poverty-stricken rural areas of Kenya. We do this with the main objective of contributing towards the socio-economic empowerment of disadvantaged communities and fostering harmonious relations among people of different backgrounds with innovative and customized high-quality services. We believe that people should retain the responsibility for their own development while CIVS supports guides and mentors their efforts with innovative and customized high-quality services. We are looking for volunteers to support our head office in Nairobi. Depending on your skills and area of interest, you can help us to improve our work.
Location: The CIVS Office is located in Buruburu phase 2 estate, Nairobi County of Kenya.
Volunteer Activities:
- Website Content Maintenance
- Social Media Marketing
- Assisting in volunteer support activities like orientation, city tours, airport transfers etc.
- Conducting online research for potential volunteers’ sending organizations in Europe and solicit help solicit them for partnership.
- Brainstorming ideas aboard to help improve the general operations and services of CIVS organization to improve competency with other related organizations.
Accommodation and Food:The volunteer will live in a host family near the office where they will get breakfast and dinner. The office will provide tea and a snack during the day. Traveling to projects and fieldwork will require the use of a public bus and the volunteer is required to cover his/her own travel costs.
Experience Kenia – Kinderbetreuung: Better Tomorrow School
Better Tomorrow School is a community Junior School that was established in the year 2019. It started with 7 children and 3 teachers but the number has since grown to 350 children and 10 teachers running from play group to grade 6. The number of children is expected to grow marginally in the next years hence the need for assistance from volunteers.
The school has more girls than boys because more boys drop out due to the surrounding socio-economic pressure and influence from crime and drugs. The children are from the age of 3yrs to 15yrs of age.
The school engages in a number of activities including: education program, feeding program, guiding and counseling, and community activities like environmental clean-ups. They have a vision of transforming the lives of the people of Vumilia Slum through education. Since the project started, they have achieved, quality formal learning. The source of funding for the project is Emmanuel’s own contribution, friends, and a small contribution from parents. The total number of employees is 13 which includes 4 males and 9 females. There are 290 children from play group to grade 6.
Location: The project is located in Vumilia Slum, Donholm, Embakasi East in Nairobi County of Kenya.
Volunteer Activities:
- Assisting in teaching the children
- Guiding and counseling the children
- Conducting outdoor children’s activities like sports
- Assisting in cooking and serving the children
- Organizing game activities for the children
Accommodation and Food: Volunteers will be accommodated at the host family in Buruburu near the CIVS office which is 10 mins drive to the school and will commute every day with a public bus. Breakfast and dinner will be provided at the host family while lunch will be at the project.
CIVS Kenia bietet 31 Einsatzstellen für Mittelzeitaufenthalte an. Weitere Projektbeschreibungen findest Du als Download anbei.