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2010 WORK CAMPS PROGRAM FOR KENYA VOLUNTARY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

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2-Week international Voluntary Service Program

KVDA/STV/09 4th-18th September 2010 - Fee 150 Euro
Orientation: 3rd September 2010
Kivaani Community
Project Type:CONS/ENV
Activity:Construction and tree planting.
Location: Eastern Province/Machakos District

KVDA/STV/10 6th-20th October 2010 - Fee 150 Euro
Orientation: 5th October 2010
Birongo Primary School
Project Type:CONS
Activity: Brick making and classrooms construction.
Location: Nyanza Province/Gucha District.

KVDA/STV/12 6th -20th November 2010 - Fee 150 Euro
Orientation: 5th November 2010
Ebutayi Primary School
Project Type:CONS
Activity: Brick making and classrooms construction
Location: Western Province/Butere District

3-Week international Voluntary Service Program

KVDA/STV/09/A 4th-24th September 2010 - Fee 200 Euro
Ebusiralo Youth Polytechnic
Orientation:3rd September 2010
Project Type:CONS
Activity: Construction of classrooms and tree planting
Location:Emuhaya District, Western Province

KVDA/STV/09/B 4th-24th September 2010 - Fee 200 Euro
Essumba Primary School
Orientation: 3rd September 2010
Project Type:CONS
Activity: Brick making, play ground leveling
Location:Emuhaya District, Western Province

KVDA/STV/10/A 6th -27th October 2010 - Fee 200 Euro
Masalani Primary School
Orientation: 5th October 2010
Project Type:CONS
Activity: Clearing playground and renovation of classrooms
Location:Tana River District, Coast Province

KVDA/STV/11/A 6th -27th November 2010 - Fee 200 Euro
Birongo Primary School
Orientation:5th November 2010
Project Type:CONS
Activity: Construction
Location: Tana River District, Coast Province

KVDA/STV/12/A 23rd Nov-20th Dec 2010 - Fee 200 Euro
Kakuma Primary School
Orientation: 22nd November 2010
Project Type:CONS/SOCI
Activity: Fencing, leveling playground, teaching and interaction with refugees at the Kakuma Refugee camp alongside United Nations Agencies.
Location:Turkana District, Rift Valley Province

Applications:
* Should be received at least one month in advance through KVDA partner organizations in respective countries.

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.

Ban on public smoking in Kenya
* It is an offence to smoke in public places in Kenya and it attracts heavy penalties for offenders. If you are a smoker, ask for designated areas where you can smoke while you are in Kenya.

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 Euros 300 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
* The 10-day residential 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 Euro 200= 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.

3-WEEK WORK CAMP ACTIVITY COST

ACTIVITY: Airport Transfer
DURATION: On Arrival and departure
DATES: Depends on volunteer's travel schedule
DETAILS: Two-way transfer on entry to Kenya and exit after the project and KVDA will guide volunteers to suitable hostel
COSTS: Euro 30

ACTIVITY: Participation fees
DURATION: 3-weeks project
DATES: As indicated on the schedule
DETAILS: Caters for project exploration, Government clearance, meals, accommodation and administration
COSTS: Euro 200

ACTIVITY: Orientation
DURATION: One day
DATES: As indicated on the schedule
DETAILS:
-Info pack about Kenya and projects
-Volunteers' expectations
-Team building, cooperation, confidence games & problem solving games.
-Visits to the Slums in Nairobi
COSTS: Euro 30

ACTIVITY: Transport
DURATION: Depending on project locality
DATES: Return journey as indicated on the schedule
DETAILS: Transport to and from project regardless of destination
COSTS: Euro 40

TOTAL AMOUNT: EURO 300.00

2-WEEK WORK CAMP ACTIVITY COST

ACTIVITY: Airport Transfer
DURATION: On Arrival and departure
DATES: Depends on volunteer's travel schedule
DETAILS: Two-way transfer on entry to Kenya and exit after the project and KVDA will guide volunteers to suitable hostel
COSTS: Euro 30.00

ACTIVITY: Participation fees
DURATION: 2-weeks project
DATES: As indicated on the schedule
DETAILS: Caters for project exploration, Government clearance, meals, accommodation and administration
COSTS: Euro 150.00

ACTIVITY: Orientation
DURATION: One day
DATES: As indicate on the schedule
DETAILS:
-Info pack about Kenya and projects
-Volunteers' expectations
-Team building, cooperation, confidence games & problem solving games.
-Visits to the Slums in Nairobi
COSTS: Euro 30.00

ACTIVITY: Transport
DURATION: Depending on project locality
DATES: Return journey as indicated on the schedule
DETAILS: Transport to and from project regardless of destination
COSTS: Euro 40.00

TOTAL AMOUNT: EURO 250.00

CONFIRMATION DEADLINE
Confirmations must be done a month before the project commences and applications MUST be done through KVDA partner organizations in respective countries as the best practice within the CCIVS network sets out.
We request for the full names, copy of passport/identity card, 2-passport sized photos with your application and Volunteer Application form (VEF)
Detailed info sheets for the Projects indicated above will be sent by KVDA to partner organization for onward transmission to respective volunteers applying for specific projects at least one month in advance.

CODE: KVDA/STV/SPECIAL WORK CAMP-WORLD HERITAGE VOLUNTEERS

DISTRICT: KINANGO

THEME: SACRED MIJIKENDA KAYA FOREST

ORIENTATION: 9TH JULY 2010

DURATION: 10TH - 31ST JULY 2010

PROJECT ACTIVITIES:

The work will include the following:

• KVDA will mobilize the local people towards tree planting and brick making as awareness creation strategies Volunteers and local people will have face to face discussions, meetings where they will educate each other on conservation initiatives and the significance of preservation of the World Heritage site significance of preservation of the World Heritage site.

• Environmental clubs in Primary and Secondary schools will be revamped as active partners in the process. KVDA will be revamped as active partners in the process. KVDA will proactively involve learning institutions and jointly develop a curriculum to guide efforts to preserve the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest.

• Training of trainers on Entrepreneurship will be carried out during the work camp and the target will be leaders of youth and women groups as well as other focus groups working in the area. Justification of this activity to the preservation of the World Heritage Site is prompted by the fact that high poverty levels continue to fuel social discord, encroachment of humans to forest and scramble for natural resources, leading to depletion and untold destruction. Equipped with skills, the youth will have more opportunities for self-advancement and this will also enlighten the entire community to be more conscious of effects of their present actions that could jeopardize sustainability of future generations.

• Volunteers will have the opportunity to work with the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest. Ideally, project placement will attract both skilled and unskilled and unskilled volunteers who will enormously contribute towards improvement of Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest and by extension raise of profile both on national and international level, aware that the site has a bigger potential to attract as many tourists visiting Kenya every year if its profiling is improved.

• It is important to note that KVDA's guiding philosophy is "Development Against Dependence" with more efforts expended to support already existing structures at the local communities in order to effectively respond to emerging development challenges and why our intervention recognizes the good efforts carried out by the SHIFOGA project and the partnership together with other community based organizations to spearhead the agenda for socio-economic development and highlight prominently the significance of all players and actors to integrate environmental conservation in their program area and the billion tree planting campaign launched in Kenya and vigorously supported by environmental lobbies, NGO's and Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai should drive our determination to put the campaign of the restoration of the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest on the World Platform.

• The volunteers will be involved in the conservation of the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest in close cooperation with medium and long-term volunteers and workers of the Shimba Hills Forest Guides association, in order to develop the tourism potential of the site. To do so, tree planting and brick making activities with environmental best practiced on the other hand will be carried out. The objective is to increase local people awareness about the preservation of the World Heritage, cultural diversity and biodiversity diversity through mutual learning with the volunteers. A wider promotion and recognition of voluntary service in the region is also expected to be among the main results of the project.

• Promotion and recognition of voluntary service in the region is also expected to be among the main results of the project.