Volunteering
A break from the work
You fundraise for the project and you bring the funds with you to hand over to the project.
Africa Direct is a non commercial, all voluntary organisation. All the money you fundraise is sent with you to the project. You can also fundraise for your travel expenses, so you can contribute your time and effort without also being out of pocket.
Short term volunteering is not facilitated by by the large Irish Charities so it has fallen to mainly commercial organisations to facilitate short term placements. However these are profit making and only a small and unknown part of the money you pay gets to the project.
Volunteer on Projects
Africa Direct can facilitate you to work on projects for periods of one or two weeks or longer. For this you must raise funds to support the project and to cover basic accommodation, meals & travel. We will support your fundraising with sponsorship cards and literature. You will bring the funds you raise with you to present directly to the project.
Ginger with The Children of Ruben School
Can you make a contribution in a few weeks?
To make it worthwhile for our partners to take you on for a short period we ask you to fundraise for the project and the bonus is you can also fundraise for your travel costs. Africa Direct will advise & help on fundraising. These funds will go in full to the project you work on and will be a big help to the project, as well as covering your accommodation and meals.
“You bring the funds you raise to
the Project”
What You Must Do:
We need short term volunteers to fundraise for the project to which they are going. However, the benefit is you can also fundraise for your travel expenses. The requirement is to raise €850 for the first week and €200 per extra week. This money will all be transferred in full to the project when you visit. In addition to being valuable funding for the project it will cover basic accommodation and meals. Living conditions may be basic.Travel and other costs, for which you can fundraise, are additional to this. Flights to Nairobi are about €700, vaccinations you may already have if not they can cost around €300, plus insurance and visa. The minimum age for volunteers is 21.
Anna Presenting a bank draft for the funds she raised to the school project.
Volunteers
A life changing experience for you to bring home and share
You will experience poverty but you will also experience happiness, people happy with the little they have and thankful for any opportunity to improve.
In the words of one volunteer ”Every now and then I had to stop to look around me to realise where I was as these children were so happy, well mannered and appreciated every minute you spent with them”.
You will appreciate how well off you are. You will learn how so little money can do so much in developing countries.Hopefully you will bring the message home of great people with great pride and happiness even in dire poverty who can be helped with a small sharing of our wealth and are so much worth helping.
