KENYA 2008
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Frais complémentaires à régler à l'arrivée :
200 US$
KENYA
VOLUNTARY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
2008
ANNUAL SCHEDULE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE
PROGRAM ORGANIZED IN A WORK CAMP ENVIRONMENT.
KVDA
KENYA
VOLUNTARY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
“Development against Dependence”
2008 PROGRAM
ANNUAL SCHEDULE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE
PROGRAM ORGANIZED IN A WORK CAMP ENVIRONMENT.
Application:
· Should be received at least one month in advance
through KVDA partner organization
Arrival in the Country:
· Before the orientation date. Volunteers will be
met at the Airport subject to provision of full flight details
and guided to suitable accommodation.
Accommodation
and meals at the project:
· KVDA provides locally available foodstuffs and
the volunteers prepare their own meals in turns. However,
volunteers are encouraged to showcase their food culture during
the culture night for every nationality represented at the
project and welcome them to carry exotic foodstuffs for the
occasion to enhance cultural diversity.
·Volunteers will be accommodated in classrooms or a
house provided by the host Community.
Insurance, health and Visa:
·This shall be arranged by the volunteers prior to their
travel to
Kenya
and volunteers should open up on health issues to enable KVDA to
effectively serve them.
What to Bring:
·Plate, mug, spoon, fork, bedding, mosquito net and
repellants and personal effects
Educational Tour for KVDA
volunteers:
· KVDA organizes special educational tours to
destinations of interest at an extra cost of US $ 360 for a
three-day package inclusive of meals, accommodation and guide
· The Educational tour is optional and motivated to
offer a unique opportunity for volunteers, spectacular than what
conventional tourism offers.
·
Educational tours may be undertaken
before and after the project as posted on KVDA website
·
25% of educational tour proceeds are
ploughed back to support local communities hosting the
volunteers who participated at the tours.
Kiswahili Training Program (KTP) for
volunteers
·
Kiswahili Training Program is
tailor-made to suit volunteers’ preferences and open to
individuals keen to have basic knowledge in Kiswahili that is
widely spoken in
Kenya
.
·
10-day program is organized in a
serene atmosphere mostly along the coast of
Kenya
where the Kiswahili language was nurtured through historical
processes and has firm foothold.
·
An additional fee of US $ 250= is
charged for the Swahili program that could be undertaken either
before or after the project.
OUTDOOR EDUCATION CULTIVATES FULL
HUMANITY
A
Large proportion of present day education is still completely
detached from the problems of the modern world. Experience so
far gained, teaches us that a person with a good education may
be an excellent University Lecturer, doctor, businessman, mother
or father and at the same time be a bad citizen, unable to form
a sound judgment on public affairs.
Present
education ignores a person’s great function in life, one’s
duty as a member of the community neither knowing nor caring
about the lives of fellow citizens.
One’s
education should make one feel at home with the community,
sharing in its tradition, its present actions and its
aspirations and responsibility for the future.
One’s
daily work will acquire a new significance once one becomes
aware that it may be done for the service of one’s nation and
through the nation, for humanity at large.
VOLUNTARY SERVICE THE
BRIDGE
OF
HUMAN
TRUST.
Voluntary
Organizations exist in many countries, helping towards the
development of various aspects of Community life. Our voluntary
Work Projects mean a great deal more than just a group of people
building or repairing something. They provide an opportunity for
volunteers to give something other than money or skilled
service. They provide a means by which people can express a
concern for others in a very tangible way through their
investment of time and physical energy. They enable you to live
in a community which needs you and your help, to learn and
understand their life and aspirations of one another, to become
aware of human needs and of the necessity for working together
in search of practical solutions to the country’s educational,
social and cultural problems. You only appreciate and respect
one another’s different cultural background once you have
understood why others behave and live as they do.
This
Voluntary Service gives you the opportunity to work to attain
local and world peace in a very personal way, by demonstrating a
commitment to the society of humankind.
It
is the bridge of human trust and understanding. The
denominator of international concern.
APPEAL TO RESCUE HUMAN LIFE
· Take time off from work stress and refresh your
self by offering useful service to a deserving human cause.
· Take time off from the domination of
technological culture, now dehumanizing the human race it should
serve and recharge your human values anew.
· Join KVDA to offer service to the community
before delivering profits to the needy individuals in the
country
· Join KVDA for self-fulfillment through service
since service to the noble human cause is service to God.
· Help find new ways to transmit technological
process from the master to servant.
There
is a hierarchy of human needs that are satisfied only when lower
needs have been satisfied. Just like when one gets thirsty one
does not seek food.
CONFIRMATION
DEADLINE
All confirmations must be done a
month before the project commences.
We request for the full names, copy of passport/identity card,
2-passport sized photos with your application and Volunteers’
Application form (VEF)
Detailed info sheets for the Projects indicated above will be
sent by KVDA to partner organization for onward transmission to
respective volunteer applicants at least one month in advance.
CULTURAL SHOCK:
Volunteers
from the North are advised to come with an open mind and to be
highly flexible to avoid falling prey into guilty traps that
could easily dehumanize. Over-industrialization development and
globalization have deprived the North of human contact and
happiness and the south has the moral obligation to offer
guidance. North-South cultural, socio-economic, political
imbalances should not be the basis for intercultural tolerance
and understanding
LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY :
For
a work camp to fully draw spontaneous experiences, KVDA puts
emphasis on facilitation as opposed to leadership in its
technical context. There will be two facilitators whose roles
will basically to offer guidance as every volunteer is expected
to be mature and dynamic to exercise self-leadership and
discipline. Conflicts are resolved by consensus and there is no
officialdom and manipulation that are products of conventional
leadership. Teamwork is encouraged and the success or failure of
a work camp where facilitators competently execute their tasks
is the responsibility of all volunteers.
“KVDA
WELCOMES YOU- TO COME AND WITNESS THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT DICTATE
THE CURRENT GLOBAL SYSTEMS AND IN A LITTLE WAY HELP FOSTER REAL
CHANGE IN THE LIVES OF FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS WITH HUMILITY,
COMPASSION AND UTTER DETERMINATION TO ENHANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE”.
PROJECT :
DAUGHTERS OF
DESTINY
CHILDREN
CENTER
PROFILE SUMMARY
Kenya
Voluntary Development Association (KVDA) has the pleasure to
forward this detailed information sheet as a confirmation that
the preparations for KVDA STV/08-4 August, Daughters of destiny
children centre International Work Camp Project is complete.
As
you are aware, KVDA has since 1962 been an active partner in
community development and has afforded the youth from Africa,
Asia, Europe and USA opportunities to serve other society
members by investing their time, skills, knowledge and money to
render voluntary services in the most remote and usually
inaccessible parts of Kenya where poverty levels are high.
We
hope that through your support and that of other like-minded
development organizations, we can mobilize human material
resources to enhance active participation of those recipients to
development policies to significantly address the problems that
hinder human and environmental friendly development approaches
so that we sustain our collective efforts to eradicate poverty.
KVDA
calls upon all our partners to reflect upon their contributions
in this worthy sector and harmonize our visions to make a
tangible impact.
Kindly
convey the message to all volunteers and reiterate our
commitment to assist them while in
Kenya
to the best of our abilities and as always, do welcome
constructive critics from the volunteers that we can re-evaluate
ourselves and play our rightful role in society.
We
look forward to prompt responses from the respective volunteers
to enable us to plan for the activities and kindly respect the
stated deadlines for confirmations for conventional purposes.
Kenya
Voluntary Development Association is an indigenous non-political membership
organization which is non-sectarian and non-profit making
started in 1962 as a work camp organization registered under the
societies act. In 1993, KVDA was registered as a Non-government
organization by the establishment of the NGO co-coordinating act.
PROJECT INFORMATION
CODE :
KVDA/STV/08-4
DURATION :
7th
– 28th August 2008
ORIENTATION :
6th
August 2008
Orientation
for all the volunteers will be done on the 6th August
2008 from 9.am at YMCA South C hostels and all the volunteers
must attend in order to initiate the much-needed teamwork. It
will entail, introduction, team building and group formation,
visit to residential estates for both privileged {the elite} and
the under-privileged {slum dwellers} to grasp and understand
poverty levels in global south, psychological preparation and
set out possible interventions.
DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY CHILDREN CENTER
Daughters
of Destiny children care is a center that cares and supports
orphans and other disadvantaged children within the parameters
of the community. It helps to provide basic needs of life like
food, shelter, medicine, clothing, education, parental care and
guidance and spiritual nourishment to assist them grow up in a
conducive environment.
There
are already two semi-structures acting as classrooms and hosting
the children for the day. The goal of the center is caring,
supporting orphans and vulnerable children by providing them
with basic needs and skills to survive
The
center host 30
children at the moment aged between 5-10 years.
ACTIVITIES :
Ø
Construction of classroom
Ø
Teaching
Ø
Organizing spoting events with nearby children center
as a way of networking
Ø
Ideas about income generating activity
Ø
Home visits and cultural night
LOCATION
AND CLIMATIC CONDITION :
Ø
It takes 8
hours from
Nairobi
to campsite by the public bus. (Eastern Kenya, nearby
Mombasa
, south coast)
Ø
Internet,
banking and postal services are available in the
Mombasa
city center approximately 10 minutes drive.
Ø
It is hot and
humid with high temperatures range from 28-32 degree centigrade.
BACKGROUND : DAUGHTER
OF
DESTINY
CHILDREN
CENTER
The
center started as a women group in 2004 situated at Ujamaa
village. It comprises of 13 members and the initial idea was to
be an orphanage. With the advent of HIV/AIDS, and pressure out
of socio-economic challenges within the community, ugly
incidents of child abuse, child labour, mistreatment and
abandoned children/orphans is a daily scenario forcing these
innocent children to relocate to the street to look for the
basic needs like begging for food and money.
The
center started on a rental house. Thereafter there was a
donation of a piece of land where in future there are plans to
build an all inclusive children orphanage.
CHALLENGES :
Ø
Lack of funds to build and run
the center.
Ø
Lack of furniture and other
basic provisions such us bedding, desks, tables, chairs
Ø
Lack of teachers to take care
and teach the children.
Ø
Capacity building for the
staffs at the center {administrative skill, management and
guidance and counseling skills}
Ø
Sustainability of the feeding
programme.
TRAVEL
ARRANGEMENTS :
Volunteers
will travel as a team to the camp site on 7th August 2008.
The
camp ends on 27th August and the Volunteers travel back to
Nairobi on 28th August 2008.
Transport
to and from the camp is organized by KVDA.
AIRPORT TRANSFER :
Volunteers
may be received at the airport subject to provision and
confirmation of full flight details at a fee of US $ 40 two ways.
Confirmations must be done via-email. On entry the volunteer
will be taken to YMCA south hostels. After the completion of the
project volunteers will be taken back to the airport after
signing out at KVDA secretariat.
MEALS
:
Volunteers will prepare their
own meals.
Most of the food is
Kenya
.
KVDA will provide the meals.
WHAT
TO CARRY:
Working clothes, light clothes during
working hours and warm clothes especially during campfire, as it
will be freezing cold.
Gloves
Mosquito net and mosquitoes repellent
Musical instrument {optional}
Sleeping bag, mat and a pillow.
Torch or flash light
Water purifiers {optional}.
Personal effects {i.e. soap, toothpaste,
toiletries}
National flag, common artifacts of your
country
Meals you will prepare to be shared
among the participants during the cultural nights from your
country.
Donations in form of old books or any
learning materials, children clothes, medical donations toys,
balls etc, towards supporting children and youth initiative
programs at the center.
A happy and positive attitude.
ACCOMODATION:
The
community will accommodate volunteers in classrooms, with each
room for male and female volunteers. There are pit latrines and
bath-shelters for use and we strongly advice volunteers to be
flexible and easily adapt to the provision of other culture
within the local environment and appreciate its uniqueness.
Volunteers will sleep on the floor to experience the complex
development challenges and will be expected to climb down to the
level of host community, be guided on the customs and conduct
and should not strive to portray living standards beyond their
means.
DRESS CODE
:
The
Digo community enjoys great cultural heritage and are averse to
permissive
customs that would compromise their dignity. Female
volunteers should beware that
wearing shorts and trousers, as this would expose them
and depict them negatively
out of cultural misrepresentation.
ENTERTAINMENT
:
The
Digo community is known for its unique culture as seen during
cultural passage like traditional marriages; circumcision etc.,
where traditional dances are performed to color the event.
Famous tradition dance that has a strong and capitalizing impact
to the community. The will be camp fire all night as volunteers
enjoy the beautiful African shy full of twinkling stars and its
important to note that this is symbolic as volunteers seating
around the fire will be expected to share and discussed burning
issues cutting across socio-economic, cultural and political
divide in the spirit of learning process. Invited guest speakers
from the community will also be part of the camp activities.
Cultural
nights will also feature as part of informative, educative and
entertainment.
SUPPORTING THE NEEDY :
KVDA
as a developmental agency invest heavily in development
education empowerment and capacity building via its philosophy
of “DEVELOPMENT AGAINST DEPENDENCE”, we discourage
communities from always being at the receiving end of
development programme but strive to employ own strategies to
achieve true development and restore their own cherished human
dignity.
Human
centered development is the key focus of KVDA intervention
strategies and KVDA has the commitment to mobilize resources in
partnership with development project. KVDA will ensure that the
right procedures and systems are in place and development should
not be a tool of the “haves” to suppress the “have-nots”.
Willing volunteers can carry any medical donation. Please feel
free incase you may require more information on a specific area
that interest you and persuaded to support a long-term project.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
KVDA
advises volunteers to seek for information from the right source
and openly raise issues that are burning to avoid speculation
that could compromise their dignity. KVDA as the host
organization is well placed to guide and advise volunteers on
real situation in
Kenya
and we caution our guest against falling prey to “cheap”
offers e.g. hotels, tours etc, for when a deal is too good think
twice.
Kindly
trust KVDA to assist you during your stay in
Kenya
and have a memorable fulfilling stay.
PROJECT :
EBUKHAYA
SECONDARY SCHOOL
PROFILE
SUMMARY
Kenya
Voluntary Development Association (KVDA) has the pleasure to
forward this detailed information sheet as a confirmation that
the preparations for KVDA STV/08-6
August, Ebukhaya
secondary school International Work
Camp Project is complete.
As
you are aware, KVDA has since 1962 been an active partner in
community development and has afforded the youth from Africa,
Asia, Europe and USA opportunities to serve other society
members by investing their time, skills, knowledge and money to
render voluntary services in the most remote and usually
inaccessible parts of Kenya where poverty levels are high.
We
hope that through your support and that of other like-minded
development organizations, we can mobilize human material
resources to enhance active participation of those recipients to
development policies to significantly address the problems that
hinder human and environmental friendly development approaches
so that we sustain our collective efforts to eradicate poverty.
KVDA
calls upon all our partners to reflect upon their contributions
in this worthy sector and harmonize our visions to make a
tangible impact.
Kindly
convey the message to all volunteers and reiterate our
commitment to assist them while in
Kenya
to the best of our abilities and as always, do welcome
constructive critics from the volunteers that we can re-evaluate
ourselves and play our rightful role in society.
We
look forward to prompt responses from the respective volunteers
to enable us to plan for the activities and kindly respect the
stated deadlines for confirmations for conventional purposes.
Kenya Voluntary Development Association
is an indigenous non-political membership organization which is
non-sectarian and non-profit making started in 1962 as a work
camp organization registered under the societies act. In 1993,
KVDA was registered as a Non-government organization by the
establishment of the NGO co-coordinating act.
PROJECT
INFORMATION
CODE :
KVDA/STV/08-6
DURATION :
7th August – 18th
September
2008
ORIENTATION :
6th August 2008
Orientation
for all the volunteers will be done on the 6th August
2008 from 9.am at YMCA South C hostels and all the volunteers
must attend in order to initiate the much-needed teamwork. It
will entail, introduction, team building and group formation,
visit to residential estates for both privileged {the elite} and
the under-privileged {slum dwellers} to grasp and understand
poverty levels in global south, psychological preparation and
set out possible interventions.
THEME : ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION
Kenya
’s
serious environmental challenges include the fate of her soils,
water and the diverse life it supports, for example plants,
animals, macro and micro organisms. Environmental problems are
not only part of the intenational economy but also local one.
Natural resource conservation and preservation and
environmentally friendly utilization require sound environmental
management.
The degradation of
Kenya
soils, particularly in terms of soil fertility ensues in a loss
of agriculture productivity.
Lack of informatin and mechanisums to manage the ecological base, and
badusage of materials are some of the causes of degradation.
Volunteers will engage themselves in study of the Ebukhaya environemnt and
later come up with better ways of conserving environment.
Volunteers will be expected to join hands with the community in order to
create a conductive working atmosphere in an environment of
cross cultural exchange, peace building and shareing the
socio-economic struggles with an anticipated aim of sustainabble
development and atthe sametime translate the Theme of the owrk
camp into workable practical solutions to towards peacefull
co-existence with the local people.
ACTIVITIES :
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Digging foundation
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Construction
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Tree planting
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Japanese and Kiswahili lessons
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Home visit
LOCATION
AND CLIMATIC CONDITION :
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Ebukhaya sub-location, Emuhaya district and Western
province. It takes about 8 hours from Nairobi to Ebukhaya
secondary school by public bus.
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Internet, postal and bank servises are an avaliable
in Kisumu which is 1 hour drive from camp site
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The nearest health facility is
2 km
from camp site. Other health facilities are found in Luanda and
Kima.
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The weather is normaly hot (20-23degree) & sunny
during the daytime and cold & windy at night time. There is
raining season in July, August and part of September so it often
rains a few hours in the evening. Volunteers are requested to
have both warm and cold clothes.
COMMUNITY :
The
Lhuya community is a legendary composition of 16 sub-tribes
speaking a similar language residing in the expasive western
province
of
Kenya
. The local people are peasant farmers. Some engage themselves
in petty businesess like seling fruits, vegetables, cereals and
other small items at
Luanda
market.
TRAVEL
ARRANGEMENTS :
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Volunteers will
travel as a team to the campsite on 7th August 2008.
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The camp ends
on 17th
September and
the volunteers travel back to Nairobi on 18th
September
2008.
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