Help Underprivileged Children at a Children's Home in Kenya
- Kenya
- Nairobi
About Program
Makuyu Education Initiative is an accountable, transparent, and efficient non-profit Children's home in Makuyu, Kenya. The mission of the MEI is to help underprivileged children of Makuyu to escape the vicious cycle of poverty by providing the children with a safe and nurturing place to live, nutritious meals to combat malnutrition, access to health care, and a high quality education.
The Makuyu Education Initiative is looking for volunteers to help at the children’s home. While the children are at school, there is a wide variety of tasks that need to be accomplished around the children’s home. When the children are at the Children’s home, the volunteers will have an opportunity to interact with the children, help children’s improve their English speaking, continue children’s education outside of school, and foster the children’s emotional and social development. Lastly, we’ll try to support any ideas that volunteers may have about how to improve the children’s home.
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Program Highlights
- Experience the Kenyan way of life and interact with wonderful, active, quick learning children.
- Teach the children enrichment activities that you have a great deal of discretion on.
- Interact and make life long relationships and friendships with our hard working staff and other passionate volunteers.
- Increase your gratitude for aspects of life back home that are very different in Kenya and learn Swahili and/or Kikuyu phrases.
- Visit beach towns and safari during your free time.
Program Impact
Volunteers will work directly with the staff and the children, helping wherever they can. Most work will be done on weekdays.
There are currently 11 children at the nursery.