Volunteer in our community growth network in Homa-Bay, Kenya

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  Hello! My name is Nixon, and I would love to warmly invite you to stay with me and my family in our humble home in Homa Bay, Kenya. We are a simple but very loving family, and for the past 20 years I have dedicated myself to supporting our local community through all challenges.
  
  Our home can host up to three volunteers at a time, and we welcome anyone with a willing heart — whether you can help with building, teaching, gardening, supporting our animals, fundraising, or sharing any skill that can uplift our community. Truly, even the smallest help creates a huge impact here.
  
  At us ,volunteers play a vital role. Our community faces the pressures of climate change, weak medical and educational systems, and poor sanitation. For many years, our main lifeline was a successful tailoring project that empowered vulnerable women and helped us fund school fees, mentorship programs, hygiene trainings, and community health awareness. Sadly, we lost everything in a major fire in 2019, and we are now starting again from zero — with hope, courage, and determination.
  
  This is why we are asking for volunteers who can support us in rebuilding, fundraising, and helping revive the tailoring project. Your presence and skills can open doors that many here never imagined possible.
  
  To help us provide good meals for all volunteers, we kindly request a small contribution of 5 USD per person per day, which goes directly toward food to ensure you are well fed and comfortable during your stay.
  
  In return, you will find a second family, experience true African culture, and become part of a mission that brings dignity, opportunity, and hope to children, women, and the entire community.
  
  If you feel called to help or would like to know more, please reach out — we would be truly honored to welcome you.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Trabalho beneficente

  Prática de idiomas

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Companhia para idosos

  Ensino

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Interesses

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Escrever

  

  Idiomas

  

  Animais

  

  Sustentabilidade

  

  Cultura

  

  Trabalho beneficente
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  O que é isso?
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  We want to give you the opportunity to learn and experience our local culture. You can experience the local food and learn how to prepare our food.
  We are also happy to hear and learn about your culture at home.

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  Instituição de caridade registrada

  Esse anfitrião é uma instituição de caridade registrada em seu país e está procurando voluntários para ajudar em seu(s) projeto(s).

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  As a volunteer, you will offer skill enhancement to our team, increase the impact of our work through optimising resources, and build stronger community connections to ensure the sustainability of our projects. You will also get to immerse yourself in the lifestyle of a Kenyan host family in the wonderful natural beauty of Homa Bay County, on the edge of Lake Victoria, with countless opportunities for learning and personal growth.
  Our organization has varieties of programmes that fully fits any willing volunteer. Our group opens its doors to any interested volunteer to work and transfer skills in any of the following areas.
  
  You can help in the community medical clinic, which offers different services to the members within the slum of Homa-Bay, as screening and testing of HIV/AIDS, preventive health services, guidance and counselling or trainings about health and hygiene.
  You can also work with orphans and vulnerable children from 2 years to 9 years. You can teach English, simple Maths, dances, songs and creative arts or any other subject according to your interest. Additionally, you can help in other everyday tasks at school.
  
  If you have any special skills, you can support in our vocational training program. You can help in our current trainings of tailoring or embroidery, but you are also free to teach us new skills which we can spread in our community.
  
  As we are currently rebranding, we also need help in creating a website and boosting our online presence with social media. Documenting our work is an ongoing mission to make our organisation seem more attractive to potential donors and supporters. We welcome any gifted writers, photographers or videographers to create content for our channels.
  
  As with any grassroots non-profit organisation, fundraising is a continuous struggle and one of our top priorities. You can help us in starting campaigns, proposal writing or building partnerships with national or global organizations.
  
  We want you to feel free to share your ideas an we will do our best to enable you to include them in our project.
  
  We always create work pattern that enable volunteers to feel comfortable and we are always flexible in our activities. Our daily programs run roughly from 9.30 am – 12:30 pm (with a lunch break), and resumes at 2:30 pm until around 4.30 pm. But each volunteer is free to create his/her own schedule.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Luo: Fluente
  Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluente

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  I'm very interested in learning German, French of Spanish. I'd be happy to exchange the language skills with you.
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  Acomodação

  Volunteers stay with my family at our home. You will be part of our family and experience the local life and culture. The volunteer will share everyday life with the host family, spend time together, cook, have meals, exchange ideas, discuss and laugh, etc..
  
  We have a big compound; therefore, you are also free to camp in our garden.
  
  We provide breakfast, lunch and supper to the volunteer. Since we are mostly in town over day, you can take a lunch package. Meals include ugali, fish, vegetables, meat, tea, bread, e.t.c.
  
  
  Life in rural Kenya may lack many of the luxuries of western life, but you will have no trouble adapting. If there are any questions or concerns around how we run our household, all you need to do is ask and we will find a solution for you. Once you embrace our way of life you will soon begin to enjoy the simple joys in life.
  
  Volunteers shall be provided with a flexible work pattern to enable them to do other things like reading story books/novels or make visits to other places.

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  Algo mais...

  We can also help you to organise your arrival. If you land in Nairobi we can organize the pickup and stay with one of our friends at affordable fee. She will also direct you on the busses to Homa Bay, where I will pick you up at the bus station. Our friend can also help you to organize some activities in and around Nairobi or in the National Parks of our country.
  
  When you arrive at our families place, you will be given some time to rest after the long journey until the next day, where you will be introduced to the organization members and the project activities. Afterwards, the work pattern shall be drawn on your choice.
  
  The means of transport is local matatus or buses. We take motorbikes to and from town and they are very affordable. We also have friends and connections to ensure you are charged local rates.
  
  Because the life and culture probably is very different from your home. In some situations you might have to adapt and be flexible. But then, we can promise you exciting moments and memorable experiences for your life.
  
  Before arrival, we will also inform you on the type of clothes, shoes, e.t.c to carry, depending on the type of climate but also regarding our culture.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  4G and 5G internet speeds are very fast at our house and in the office. Many packages are available via local providers and tend to be a lot cheaper than rates in Europe or western countries.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  We live in our own compound and it's big enough for parking.

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  Pode aceitar animais

  any

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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  Meus animais / animais de estimação
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  Este anfitrião cobra uma taxa

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  Por que a Workaway permite que alguns anfitriões cobrem uma taxa?
  

  A Workaway oferece oportunidades de intercâmbios culturais não monetários, em que os anfitriões fornecem alimentação e acomodação em troca da ajuda dos Workawayers. Em alguns casos excepcionais, uma pequena taxa/pedido de doação (normalmente não mais do que 5 dólares por dia) pode ser aprovada para anfitriões, como instituições de caridade registradas com histórico de feedback positivo de voluntários. Qualquer taxa deve ir diretamente para a instituição de caridade e só pode ser usada para cobrir os custos de alimentação dos voluntários. Isso será claramente indicado na listagem do anfitrião.
  

  São estritamente proibidas as listagens feitas por agentes, "intermediários" ou projetos que pareçam lucrar com a estadia de um voluntário. Quaisquer taxas devem ser discutidas e aprovadas com antecedência pela equipe do Workaway.

  US$5 per day to help with food costs

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