Work at Orphanages in Kenya

Project At A Glance

Location: Nairobi Duration: 2-12 weeks Hours: 30-40 hours per week Food: Local food (3 times a day) Room: Host family or hostel Date: First and Third Monday of each month

Project Summary

Kenya has a lot of orphans who have been affected by the AIDS virus as well as poverty. There is a need to help kids who have lost their parents through the epidemic. We are presently working with more than 3 local orphanages in the different parts of the city and Limuru. At this program you mostly help orphans kids by tutoring, home schooling and organizing creative extra curricular activities.

Skill/Qualification

There is no specific qualification needed to join the orphanage volunteer project. However, volunteers are expected to be flexible and patience. You should have passion and love for orphans.

Volunteers' responsibilities:

As a volunteer in the orphanage project, you will help tutor the children in the orphanage where the orphans are home-schooled. You will also help kids to stay clean by helping them in brushing teeth, shower, and personal hygiene. During the evening, you organize games, drawing, singing, dancing, and other creative education and extra curricular activities. You will help kids to do homework, monitor academic progress, and make sure kids complete next day's homework.

In the orphanage where the children go to school, during the day administrative work helping in cleaning, cooking, garden work will constitute most of your work.

Room/Food

We arrange for room, food, and supervision for volunteer from the start to the end of program. During first, week of language and cultural program, volunteers stay with one of the host family in Nairobi. The home is located 10 min drive from the city giving easy access to most part of the city.

During volunteering period, volunteer will stay with a host family or at the orphanage. We arrange a separate room and shared bathroom for volunteers at the orphanage/ host family.