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GYC3076 - Care for Kids Country: Kenya Cost: £995.00 Cost Includes: The price includes accommodation, food and pickup from airport but does not include flight, insurance, kit or visas     Duration: 1 months Company Rep Nearby: All the time 0845 344 7585 or

 

	This placement would suit... Those with a love for children and a concern about their welfare, and would like to give something back to a poor community. Your work will comprise of caring for and teaching children from the poorer communities. Many of the schools and community centres we work with are very poor, that’s why they’re so grateful for help from our volunteers! The Teenswatch project is based in the beautiful area of Diani, also known as Ukunda. The Centre we work with has children from as young as 4, right up to 24 year olds and you’ll be able to help with all ages. Your help affects the children immeasurably because interacting with people from a different country gives them enormous confidence, which is normally very rare for these children and benefits them tremendously. Playing games with the children also builds confidence and encourages the children to use English in an informal, non-judgmental setting and this really helps them to learn without them knowing it! The younger children benefit by gaining exposure to the language at an early age, which is a time they learn the quickest. You can help the carers with the day-to-day running of the centres and you can get involved in the general caring for the children. In fact, most of your work will be to help and assist the carers with their daily rounds. Another aspect of the work will be to help clean the equipment and various areas within the Centre. Some of the things you will be involved in are: Teaching sports Life skills. Counseling Helping out in the library, repairing books, teaching general computer skills. Helping out in the kitchen and preparing food for the children. Helping the children eat. Helping the carers and also caring for the children. General cleaning of the compound and the Centre. Teaching informal English, Arithmetic and sports to the children Organizing and facilitating games and plays for the children. You may also get to go on home visits. Our users say... Njeri is delightful, isn’t she? A really lovely, helpful, welcoming lady. Arriving at the house at nearly 8pm was a (wonderful) eye opener. The mararus, the noise, pot holes, people... You will know how lovely the family is, so warm & welcoming and with a ‘hurricane lamp’ I settled in my room and began to unpack. The heat, amazingly, doesn’t affect me at all. I feel alive, younger (!), fitter (and HAPPIER) than I’ve ever been, and nothing bothers me. All of us at Travellers meet with Njeri weekly as you may know & it is a lovely, friendly, happy evening. Yes, I’ve been out evenings! We attended a Gala dinner in aid of the marvellous Wema Centre on Friday. Fabulous food, & the kids from Wema plus street kids sang & performed wonderfully. - Angela Cotton 0845 344 7585 Travellers Worldwide: Live and work abroad helping children, adults, animals and entire communities in less advantaged countries. Learn about their culture from the inside! Stay from as little as two weeks to as long as one year - you choose your dates and duration!