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Education is free for all Kenyans. Yet not all of them are educated. There is lack of schools, and even worse, a shortage of trained teachers. In Kimuka, the school desperately needs volunteer teachers. The Masai for long have suffered due to illiteracy, poverty and lack of skills. They live a nomadic life, attending their cattle but due to failure of rain and many other calamities, they’re suffering from starvation and risk losing many of their people due to migration to urban areas for work.
The teaching project is intended to help the Masai people without losing their land and cultural heritage. Through education, the Masai will be able to do business, take up agriculture and survive independently. Volunteers will teach students aged 6 to 17. There are many subjects you can choose to teach from and you’ll find the students extremely eager and mostly well behaved.
Volunteers must be able to speak English fluently. Kimuka is a very remote area and living conditions are very basic. Volunteers must be willing to forgo luxuries while volunteering. You must also be open-minded.
Classes in the school start at 8 and end at 12.40 for lunch until 2 pm. The schools are open from Monday to Friday. Volunteers can teach many subjects or concentrate on just one. The subjects taught are: English, math, science, social studies, etc. Volunteers will be helped by local staffers and the principal of the school.
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 ensure that volunteers 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. Our coordinator will also contact you to make sure you are satisfied. You’ll also have access to the coordinator’s mobile phone number; you can regularly 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.
