Unforgettable Experience

I joined the UCESCO volunteering organisation back in June 2023, where I stayed there for a month. I was 18 at the time and doing a gap year, and I am so thankful I decided to go to Kenya, and even more to join the UCESCO association.
UCESCO isn’t an organisation, it’s a family, the staff there treat you as their own, they make you feel so welcomed and make sure to fill you with love. What I loved the most about this experience was that anything could be possible ! As long as you had an idea who’s ultimate goal was to help the people around you, in whatever form, then you could do it and would get full support from UCESCO.
If you want to be independent and do projects of your own, you can. If on the other side you prefer to be in a group, and work with a team, you can do that too. I decided to be in a group whereby I would help out in schools in Kibera and would also help out in clinics.
I’ve learned so much through this experience, as I was preparing to enter medical school, I assisted a doctor in the clinics who taught me much more than any textbook could. I helped out in the schools, where I met some of the most amazing, talented and intelligent kids I’ve ever met. Kids who are hungry to learn more, who will give you all of their love in an instant - even if they don’t know you, kids who are pure at heart.

The UCESCO team became my second family by the end of the month, everybody around me treated me in the best way possible and I will forever be grateful towards them. They’ve taught me so much about life that I cannot put into words.

The organisation is one of the few that is rooted with good and pure values, who’s main and only goal is to help the community around them. Every project is well-thought and unique, where you see and experience much more than what you could imagine. I have made unforgettable memories during this trip, and I will without doubt come back. Ever since I left Nairobi, it is all I’ve been thinking about, I miss it very much.