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The Masai people need roads, infrastructure development and sanitation projects and many more projects like these to improve their lives. These projects will bring development and ward off hunger, disease and illiteracy. These projects are however not intended to give modern life to Masai, who still are living a nomadic life tending their cattle, but on the contrary help save their own culture and lifestyle. Lately, the Masai people have started to migrate in urban places for work and survival. To avoid this, development must come to their land, schools, hospitals must be built and their culture must be promoted to attract tourists, so that the Masai can benefit from revenue generated from it. Join the project now and be part of this wonderful effort to save Masai’s unique way of life.
You do not need any qualifications to volunteer in the project. However, if you are an engineer, you’d be ideal for the project. If volunteers have other skills like building projects, cultural conservation ideas, you are more than welcome to share them. Others can also contribute equally by learning and volunteering enthusiastically.
Volunteers will stay with a Masai family and work in these projects. Projects include sanitation, school construction and making beads for export.
Volunteers will stay with a warm and welcoming Masai family during their entire volunteer program. Their houses are mostly constructed with materials that are available locally and made with indigenous technology. Living conditions are very basic. The meals the Masai consume are very basic but they’ll be given money to provide a more varied diet for volunteers. The family will gladly will ensure that volunteers will enjoy the meals. Volunteers will have breakfast around 8 am before leaving for project; lunch will be served around 12 to 1 pm, and dinner around 7 pm. For breakfast, volunteers will enjoy tea with cereal, fruits and toasts. Lunch usually consists of rice with vegetables, or sandwiches. At dinner, volunteers will enjoy traditional meals like irio, mboga, chapatti and ugali. Volunteers purchase their own bottled drinking water, which is available locally. Our coordinator will also regularly contact you to make sure you are satisfied. You’ll also have access to the coordinator’s mobile phone number; you can contact him any time you want to discuss something.
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The mission of RCDP-Nepal is to encourage international volunteers to contribute in sustainable community development that benefits the underprivileged and extremely poor. By developing the places and the communities, the volunteers are also developing themselves and learning new perspectives and ideas that will ultimately change their lives.
