Very needy school in Nairobi requires volunteers

  Kenya

Nairobi

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: Mostly all year

Description: This is one school with children who are highly underprivileged. The children survive on periodic donations, ranging from essential commodities like water and food to education and clothes. A volunteer can do loads of things to better the situation. Teaching the children would help a lot. One needs not to be skilled teacher to take on this placement, as subjects taught in the school are quite basic.

Agape would also be perfect for those wishing to give institutions like this a face lift by painting its classes, building some more and initiating income generating activities like irrigation. A couple of more bigger tanks that sell locally at about Ksh.30,000 (US$500) can for instance irrigate the school's vegetables adequately hence saving them on food costs.

Agape has no electricity yet an electric line passes by its fence and it would cost US$500 draw the power and light the classrooms, which badly need painting. The school is located in Nairobi's Waithaka division in Dagoretti constituency. Agape was founded two and a half years ago to cater for orphans and vulnerable children in the area. The home currently hosts 40 children between the ages of two and six.

During the center's early days feeding program was also conducted to take care of children whose parents cannot afford two meals a day. The feeding program however crumbled due to lack of funds; consequently a number of children are not able to attend classes regularly due to hunger.

Agape has other problems like that of rent bills as the school is operated from a rented building. The school also has no water and depends on water a water tank that cannot take them through two days. This home lacks totally in sponsorship. As a result extreme hardship is its day-to-day encounter. A move to even plant more trees in its compound for children to be able play in shade in future would be blessing.

Highlights: Many who have visited East African cities, have an impression that, "Nairobi is East Africa's hub of fun". The city is awash with standard fun bobbling joints for the young and the old alike. Nairobi is the only city in the world where one can go for a game drive in the wild, thus, weekends out to the Nairobi National Park could be in order. There is also the Nairobi Safari Walk, Animal orphanage, a giraffe and an elephant sanctuary, where one could get to kiss a giraffe lip to lip.

For a cultural night out a visit to the Bomas of Kenya, will leave you thrilled and educated about various Kenyan traditional cultures, music and history. One could also climb Mount Longonot, two hours drive from the city, for skilled climbers, Inspire Kenya will be more than glad to organise her volunteers a climb up Africa's second highest point Mount Kenya. The mountain's icy peaks of Batian (5199m) and Nelion (5,189m) are accessible only to experienced mountaineers, Kenyans are uniquely hospitable people, intelligent and out going.

Qualifications: This program would best suit any one with a humane heart. Someone willing to reach out and inspire hope where there might be none. People with a niche to leave the world a better place that he/she found it.

This program would also suit groups of two to twenty with a common goal like fund raising to buy such home kitchen equipments or buy them enough food to take them through a month, six months or a year.

Such groups could initiate projects like painting the home, buying more beddings, toys, books, medicine, expand the home building wise to accommodate more children comfortably. This is because Kenya produces an orphan every five minutes as results of deaths from HIV/AIDS and other ailments.

The program would also best for those who wish to teach and work in a children's home simultaneously. You really could make this placement your own.

Cost in US$: See website for latest prices

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: This placement is suitable for people from all walks and strips of life with an interest in fellow human beings' plights and sufferings. A month or two here could change lives. Including perhaps even your own!

Age Range: 18+

This Program is open to World Wide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Application Process Involves:

• Resume

Inspire Kenya's Mission Statement: To send groups of people to Kenya to contribute to the people and culture in a productive and meaningful way.

Year Founded: 2006