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Uhanga Water and Sanitation Project |
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Project: Water sanitation and health management |
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| Email now at: volunteer@malaikaecotourism.com |
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Project’s Background: This women group has created an impact and enhanced awareness of the necessity of safe and clean drinking water and improved sanitation and hygiene practices in the area. The users are able to define and express their needs and demands and are thus more able to manage and sustain the facilities. This project led to the construction of toilets in Uhanga primary school that benefited the local community in general. These women have set up what they call a self-home hygiene management program. The group is helping families in the community to build their own toilets and manage the drinking water. The CBO members are very determined to stop persistent hunger and fight poverty within the society by having a strong health management program. This group hosts about 5 new members every year and the number keeps on increasing. There are kindly expecting volunteers from the North & the South to come and help them passing their message out and help them develop their community |
Volunteer's Role:
Volunteers play a key role of motivation to the community, as well as they lower the gap between the haves and the have nots. The objective is not to turn around the lifes of these under-privileged ones but to make a difference and build a bridge between the North and the South.
The following are volunteers' tasks and roles in the project: |
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Beneficiaries of the project: about 1000 People living in this village |
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Importance of Volunteer's placement:
Volunteers bring with them a different outlook and perspective, as well as knowledge base, which is invaluable to the continued learning and education of the group members and the community. They also help to motivate group members for each activity as well as the community as a whole.
Orientation:
You will receive an orientation at the beginning of your programme in Malaika Ecotourism office in Nairobi- Kenya and then at the project together with the community. It will cover what you can get involved with at your project, how to stay safe and the opportunity to ask any questions that you may have.
Volunteer Programme support:
Throughout your stay in Uhanga, you will have the support and guidance of the Nyanza Community coordinators. They will provide you with competent assistance and help you with anything that you may need. Malaika Ecotourism will also support you with a 24 hour emergency mobile phone number and give you a local sim card line that you can use when you are in the project.
Accommodation & Meals:
Accommodation is provided in a family who are also members of the project, in order to feel integrated and also enjoy more cultural aspects. Volunteers are always having private room and all meals are provided within the family that’s to say breakfast, lunch and dinner. Volunteers are allowed to introduce food from their own culture.
Project Information Highlights |
| Working Hours | Flexible: usually daily 8am to 12pm, all other time is free. |
| Requirements | Minimum age 18 years old |
| Participation Fee | € 350 per month |
What is included in volunteer fee |
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| Accommodation | in family or group camping |
| Food | 3 meals a day |
| Training & Orientation | on arrival day |
| Administration costs | Communication & Project preparation |
Airport Pickups |
On arrival |
| Transport to Project | To project and back to the main city |
What is not included in volunteer fee
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Flights/ Insurance/ Visas /Return Airport transfer/ Local Transport/ Hotel Night before Project start/
Accommodation on the arrival on the city of Nairobi |
Please Note |
Malaika facilitates all its programmes, in projects which are managed by the local communities. This is to ensure the sustainably of the project. The information received by volunteers before being on the ground is as accurate as possible. However, due to the very nature of the projects, the exact details of what happens during the project might evolve. |
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Follow Ecological principles: Malaika Ecotourism implements reduction of Co² produced within all its development Feel Africa by meeting the People, Wildlife and Nature. |