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🌱 Join Florence & Gabriel
A Permaculture & Community Empowerment Stay on Mfangano Island, Kenya
Welcome to our growing project on the shores of Lake Victoria!
We’re Florence and Gabriel — passionate about permaculture, eco-building, and community transformation. Together with local families, we’re creating a space of learning, regeneration, and hope.
Here, volunteers and locals work side by side to grow food, build sustainably, and share ideas for lasting change. 🌍
💪 What You’ll Do
🌾 Support regenerative farming and help design productive, organic gardens.
🧱 Join eco-building projects — from chicken houses and compost systems to aquaponics and natural structures.
📸 Contribute your creativity — help us share our story through photos, videos, or social media.
🌿 Learn and exchange ideas about sustainable living, community empowerment, and simple, meaningful lifestyles.
🌞 What We Offer
A welcoming, family-style environment surrounded by nature.
Opportunities to learn permaculture design, eco-construction, and local culture.
Shared meals, lakeside peace, and the joy of community life.
Real impact — your work supports local youth, women, and farmers.
🌺 Our Vision
To grow a self-sustaining eco-village that connects people and nature through faith, creativity, and love for the earth.
Come share your hands, heart, and ideas — and help us build something beautiful together! 💚
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
Hospitality/Tourism
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Sustainability
Culture
Farming
Events & social
Charity work
Languages
Plant care
Gardening
Carpentry
Cooking & food
DIY & crafts
Animals
Dancing
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
🌍 Cultural Exchange
Life here is all about sharing and learning. Guided by local leaders, you’ll experience the traditions of Mfangano Island while connecting with an international group. From cooking local meals with our students, church members and learning the language to enjoying lakeside sunsets, it’s a true exchange of culture, knowledge, and friendship.
Registered charity
This host is a registered charity in their country and is looking for volunteers to help with their project(s).
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Current Projects
We’re growing and always looking for creative, hands-on volunteers to help bring our ideas to life! 💡
Right now, we’re working on:
🐓 Feeding & caring for our poultry house — helping us create a sustainable system for chickens and compost.
🐟 Building an aquaponic fish pond inside our food forest — combining fish, plants, and water in harmony.
🍌 Designing banana circles & keyhole gardens — fun, practical ways to recycle water and grow more food naturally.
We also welcome volunteers with creative or technical skills to help us grow our impact:
💻 Grant writing & online fundraising through our charity page.
🎥 Videography & digital storytelling — help us film and share our Mfangano Island story of culture, community, and regeneration.
Whether you love farming, eco-design, storytelling, or technology, your contribution will make a real difference here. 🌍
Join us — and be part of building a hopeful, sustainable future on Mfangano Island!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Luo: Fluent
Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluent
Accommodation
🏡 Accommodation & Meals
Volunteers stay in a comfortable shared house with a kitchen, shower, latrine, and cozy living space — plus a quiet spot in the food forest for those who enjoy peaceful solo time. 🌳
You’ll be surrounded by trees and close to the lake — the perfect place to unwind, reflect, or take a swim after a day’s work. WiFi is available nearby for those who wish to stay connected.
We usually host two or more volunteers and provide three wholesome meals daily:
🍲 Two meals lovingly prepared by our local church members,
🌿 and dinner cooked together with us — often using fresh produce from the garden.
🌴 Weekends & Community Life
Weekends are yours to relax or explore the island — enjoy the lake, visit nearby villages, or simply rest in nature.
On Sundays, we share a special Food Exchange with our church family — volunteers help prepare a community meal using ingredients from the farm. It’s a joyful time of cooking, music, and connection. 🎶
✨ Staying with us and the church is more than volunteering — it’s becoming part of a family and creating unforgettable memories on Mfangano Island. 💚
What else ...
Mfangano Island is a nature-lovers paradise with plenty of birdlife, hikes and peaks with stunning panoramic views. We are on the east south side of the island and exposed to sun rise, but there is much to see and experience on the other parts of the island as well as the other nearby islands on your days off.
We either walk or take boat and motorcycles around (no more cars on the island !) and there are motor boats to transport people to different points on the island. It is possible to walk the whole ring road around the island in one day (if you start very early in the morning !).
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have a big space and flat for more cars to pack.
Can possibly accept pets
We have dogs and cats
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Dodgy (3 months)
My dog is still young and like playing
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I loved how the workaway functioned. You live in a separate house and when I was there there were loads of volunteers so we would have a great time together in our breaks and weekends. You are just by the lake so you can pop in for a swim or bath when you need!
They have set times to come over for breakfast,… read more
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Accommodation is not on-site but about 200… read more
Another highlight was sharing… read more
As you dost pen the feedback, let the words be a reflection of kindness and truth. For even in the smallest… read more
I loved how the workaway functioned. You live in a separate house and when I was there there were loads of volunteers so we would have a great time together in our breaks and weekends. You are just by the lake so you can pop in for a swim or bath when you need!
They have set times to come over for breakfast,… read more
We would like to express our deepest gratitude for the guidance and support you… read more
A sense of belonging settles very… read more
They are really welcoming and try to fit you in the community and want you to get to know the historical parts of the island.
It is interesting to see the cultural differences. And it is definitely an… read more
Cultural exchange and learning how to play Oluko very first at our meusium.
With a mixture of luo and Suba cultures, the better off we are.
Màtheus was able to learn at the rhythm of olusuba and luo life.… read more
I was introduced to what they eat (Florence can’t live without her Ugali), but also had the opportunity to… read more
Cultural exchange and learning how to play Oluko
Here, the more there is a mixture of 8cultures, the better off we are.
Martin was able to learn at the rhythm of olusuba life. The on-site project which is… read more
Florence, Gabriel, Christine, Dennis, Happy, and Sesmel—thank you so much for… read more
Love you Florence and… read more
Florence and girls cooked so great food every day so our bellies were happily full.
Gabriel organised a tour around the island by boat and a trip to the top of the mountains and the UNESCO heritage… read more
They had a number of projects they were working on, including their permaculture projects, grant writing and application, house building as well as working with the local school.
We mainly focused on the house building,… read more
Thank you for everything, we will not forget this experience.
Florence and Gabriel… read more
We visited a school one of the days and the main focus when I was there were to spread the word of the project and to make the fundraising going for building the fence… read more
My main task was to open the nursery space at the side of garden
They have many interesting project.like involving the community especially some of neighbor schools. And expanding the farm is also one of nice work.
They… read more
At that time nothing had been started… read more
I travelled solo and it was my first time on Mfangano island so there was plenty to see and discover on the island, especially on days off with the other volunteer I joined, Morgane. The work was simple enough - I arrived at the very beginning of… read more
The oven is doing great. The kids House is also good and prevented from rain . The are very hard work. Sandra your fundraising is good still online. Thank you guys for your help.
We helped to create an oven in the separate kitchen and… read more
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Be blessed you my daughter.
