Volunteer in Kenya
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What is it like to volunteer in Kenya?

Located on Africa’s east coast between Tanzania and Ethiopia, Kenya is an ethnically diverse country boasting numerous cultures, varied and striking landscapes, and world-famous wildlife.

Comprised of a variety of tribes including Kikuyus, Kamba and the Maasai, Kenyans as a whole are some of the friendliest people in the world, warmly welcoming visitors and immediately accepting them into their lives. Kenya has a strong claim as the ‘cradle of humanity’; much of the oldest fossil evidence in the world has been discovered in Kenya and human life certainly originated in Eastern Africa.

Our Kenya Volunteer Projects & Experiences

While volunteers will find many things familiar, Kenyan culture is very much its own; with a vibrant national music scene, internationally acclaimed literature, and a strong sporting tradition.

Compared to many African countries, Kenya has had a relatively peaceful history since independence, but it still struggles economically on both the world-stage and at the individual level. In 2007, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by violence arising from political and ethnic tensions surrounding the 2007 elections. Many of these people are now living in camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) - to which we run excursions to offer our support.

More generally, infrastructure in Kenya, both physical and organisational, is often poor, leading to potholed roads and an impossibly small education budget - which is where our orphanage and teaching volunteers come in.

Kenya also suffers from some of the lowest wages for doctors in the world. Because of this, schools, medical clinics, and other institutions are often understaffed and under-provisioned – this is where our medical volunteers come in.