Description

Enchoro Wildlife Camp Community Service Programs

The Enchoro Wildlife Camp in Masai Mara collaborates with other local and overseas organizations whose mission is to assist rural and underdeveloped communities in the Mara region to improve on the quality of lives for the Masai people within their communities.

These programs empower the Masais economically and socially by initiating various volunteer support programs for local and foreign tourists by giving hands on experience in humanitarian service.

The Masai Mara region is populated by the Masai tribe and communities of whom some are eager to partner with development like minded people and organizations, in the struggle to provide a structure and knowledge base for community needs.

Particularly by the experience with the various dynamics that often complicate development efforts.

The co-operation and partnership with "KVCDP" Kenya Voluntary & Community Development Project and Enchoro Wildlife Camp has been able to come up with well selected appropriate projects that got the blessings from community approval and that provide the infrastructure and management for volunteers who provide their services to the Masai communities in projects and programs like Education, health, children, youth and community service or who target specific development projects like educational series or a combination of projects like building, children programs, schools, water, hospitals, children's homes, agriculture and or environment conservation programs.

Enchoro Wildlife Camp has developed a volunteer's mission discounts and attractive rates for all group accommodations destined to stay in its Tented Camps.

This plan is recommended for groups who wish to involve a team of volunteers say 10 to 30 Persons or more in a meaningful experience and for those that wish to combine some development work with a safari.

Please contact us for information on the safari packages available with volunteer development options.

Highlights

Enchoro Wildlife Camp recently unfolded its newest website. It provides key information that will facilitate travelers of all walks of life in choosing the best tourist programs around the Mara region, and to promote tourism as well as to provide people with quality adventure holidays and with the great accommodation.

If you are interested in planning a wonderful and remarkable tour in the Mara region is no longer a problem, it is now easier as enchoro camp will help you manage everything.

If you are enticed by Volunteerism, wildlife Safaris, walking & trekking, this will ensure that our visitors gain local knowledge and at the same time, the local communities economies will also earn from it.

"Masai dances"

"Go direct to enchoro, Save Money and give more back" - This philosophy guide's enchoro wildlife camp with its product and service development.

Enchoro offers a lot of direct booked adventure tours and holidays accompanied with a comprehensive route plan, Trip information, clearly marked tour durations, and give back to the Masai communities through volunteer program plan activities.

Our volunteer options are planned to suite Group travels, Families or individual options enabling every individual to choose from several activities which they can do during their trip.

Enchoro is strictly committed to its policy regarding responsible tourism and thus, it chooses to work with those local Masai organized groups of Men, Women and Youth that offer and represent the local communities with great long term benefits that maintain the welfare of the preservation of their environment, culture, believes and traditions. This however develops relationships across with the goal to promoting better understanding between foreign tourists and the Masai communities while freely interacting, sharing of cultural social practices and their traditions.

Qualifications

No formal experience required able to communicate in English both written and verbal and be an out going person

Intern Types

Languages

• English
• Swahili

Cost in US$:

1540 USD

Cost Includes:

• Excursions
• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Pre-departure orientation/Training
• Registration fees

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

Typical Volunteer

Short Term Projects: K.V.C.D.P offers placements in Kenya as part of the International Voluntary Service projects. International work camps volunteer participants work with local volunteers at grass root level in identified projects that aim to improve local communities. Our camps run for a period of 2 to 3 weeks for which volunteers live and work together in an international group with people people of various back grounds and Nationalities. This interaction helps to break down the barriers and prejudices between world Nations. Volunteers get an opportunity to experience other cultures as a medium or medium or long term volunteer and these opportunities are an excellent way to disconnect the cultural barriers and promoting world peace as well us providing an opportunity for volunteers to obtain a fresh perspective on world issues and an integral part of the learning and serving experience. Our short term volunteer work camps offer the following opportunities: * Working with kids * Restore the environment * Assist in social projects eg Hiv/Aids awareness * Teach organic farming and farm work * Fencing our farm at wagusu * Repair work at our source centre e.g. painting, repair gate, fencing, fix windows, fix gutters to help harvest water rain water, landscaping and tree planting. KVCDP is committed to volunteering at any age. We offer youth volunteers, teens (young Adults), families and adult volunteers from the world over. We invite you to join our work camp service projects.

Age Range

17 TO 65

This Program is open to

American, Asian, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Group living
• Home-stays
• Independent living
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

in Groups of 5 TO 20

Application Process Involves

• In-Person Interview Required
• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Letters of Reference
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Phone/Video Interview
• Resume
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is

2weeks

Post Services Include

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Job and Internship Network
• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

Kenya Youth Hostels Association's Mission Statement

Kenya Youth Hostel Association is a non-profit organization, which promotes youth hostelling in Kenya and gives the opportunity to Kenyan young people to travel abroad, because the membership card of international hostelling is valid worldwide. So if you have this card, you are accepted in all of those seventy countries and all of those youth hostels without any differences. We would like to see more Kenyan people travel around and use the infrastructure, because all countries are very well covered by youth hostels. Our main task is to promote youth traveling as something which is not only for people who have a lot of money. We are here to help people to travel more easily, quickly, safely and to find people of their age around. We are promoting traveling with no differences between races, nationalities, without any kind of discrimination.

Year Founded

1957

Kenya Youth Hostels Association is a NO based organization. We do not require our participants to be of the same faith. Our volunteers will not be involved in religious proselytizing.