Volunteer at our permaculture, organic farm around Lake Victoria, Homa Bay, Kenya

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  Description

  I am Erick, the director of our community project. I am the last born in a family of four boys, am married to one wife and have one beautiful baby girl named Anna.
  
  Our mission is to empower the young generation, orphans, widows, and the youths through organic farming and permaculture.
  
  We are on the lookout for volunteers to take part in our community-based projects. We are currently dealing in empowering the community by teaching them about sustainable farming, exploring and practicing sustainable agriculture.
  
  These are some of our projects:
  1. Empowering the widows, orphans, disabled and vulnerable people in our community.
  2. Organic farming and permaculture
  3. Creating Awareness about Technology, HIV/AIDS, STDs & COVID-19
  
  Our permaculture farm
  We have a young and promising food forest and we intend to use it to teach the widows, orphans, disabled and the vulnerable about food security and importance of nutrition. We have structures such as banana circles, keyhole garden, and a small fish pond.
  
  Widows and orphans
  We teamed up with the group members in 2015 and have been taking care of 10 orphans, 5 widows and over 20 vulnerable people in Kochia Ward. Over the years, we have provided them with food, clothes and financial support an in return gave them the opportunity to learn several life skills from our garden.
  
  This project started in 2012 with a mission of promoting sustainability and community independence through farming teaching life skills and creating opportunity for each and every member of the community. Through organic farming and permaculture we also hope to eradicate poverty within our community and even beyond.
  
  We are based in Kenya, South Nyanza, Homa Bay County, Rangwe Sub-County. We highly welcome volunteers to visit our project and help our members to share knowledge and interact with our communities.
  
  We are looking forward to a community where every willing member can learn and take a little risk that can help them become independent through permaculture Innovation, organic farming and Technology to facilitate an open-source approach to learning permaculture.
  
  We welcome all volunteers to take part in our projects to create a change that will in due time spread to the whole world.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Elderly Companionship

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  Hospitality/Tourism

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  They will learn:
  - Our local language (Luo)
  - Traditions & Culture
  - Language Exchange

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  The volunteers are asked to take part in general activities at our farm/project site. They will help at our permaculture/organic farm, help us in teaching the orphans, widows, disabled and vulnerable people in our community. They will also take part in other community farming activities and related projects within Rangwe Sub County, and share their life experiences with people in the community.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  I will learn other languages, and teach others my local language.
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  Accommodation

  We have a 4-roomed building specifically for hosting volunteers. The volunteers will stay with the host-family under Home-Based Accommodation. We have 4 bedrooms for hosting our visitors.
  
  The host will provide requirements, including food, a private room, bedding (bed, blanket, bed sheets, mosquito net, and others) charging no fees.
  
  The volunteer(s) will stay and share their day-to-day life with the hosting family, spend time together, share ideas, cook and have meals together. However, the workawayer will also interact with other members of our community in their free time.

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  What else ...

  We will have a flexible helping timetable for the volunteer(s) with 5 hours of help daily at our farm, while they will use the remaining time for leisure activities such as visiting historical sites, e.g hot-spring, lake Victoria for boat ride, Ruma Game park, Masai Mara Game Park, Sporting Activities, Kit Mikai in Kisumu, and Lwanda Magere among other interesting areas.
  
  We will offer the volunteers the opportunity to cook foods of their choice. Also, they will be informed about the type of outfits to carry along depending on the climatic condition before they make a trip.
  
  The volunteers will not pay hosts for anything including food and accommodation.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  We are open to host any volunteer or traveller.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We live in a big home with enough space for workawayers travelling in vans or motors

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Workawayers are free to bring their pets with them, and we would also love to help you take care of the pets.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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