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I am Erick, the Director of our Community Project (registered as the Self Help Group). 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 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 Kothidha Village. 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 as the Self Help Group 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, Kothidha. We highly welcome volunteers to visit our project and work with 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.
Trabajo de caridad
Proyectos artísticos
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Compañía para ancianos
Enseñanza
Jardinería
Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Hostelería/turismo
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda con ordenadores/Internet
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
They will learn:
- Our local language (Luo)
- Traditions & Culture
- Language Exchange
The volunteers are requested to participate in general activities at our farm/project site. They will be working 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 Kothidha village, and share their life experiences with people in the community.
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluido
Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
I am willing to learn other languages, and teach others my local language.
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). 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 have the opportunity to interact with other members of our community at their free time.
We will have a flexible working timetable for the volunteer(s) with 5 hours of work 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, Maasai Mara Game Park, Sporting Activities, Kit Mikai in Kisumu, and Lwanda Magere among other interesting areas.
The volunteers will be offered 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.
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
We are open to hosting any volunteer or traveller.
We live in a big home with enough space for workawayers travelling in vans or motors
Workawayers are free to bring their pets with them, and we would also love to help you take care of the pets.
Más de dos
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week