Are
you excited by the idea of widening your outlook,broadening
your skill base or adding your an international dimension
to your CV?
You
can achieve all this by volunteering your time,energy and
talent to GVDA exciting exchange programmes in Kenya and
abroad.
Powerful
Projects
Organize youths skills,summits and youths forums
Bring together indigenous youth in remote communities
Network with key resource person with ability to work
with people of different levels
Build leadership skills or career with you and communities
Strengthen risk management and learn and acquire cross
cultural skills
Travel with health professionals to help improve school
delivery health care or conduct water and HIV AIDS prevention
workshop
Work with the orphans,childcare centres,schools,health
clinics,hospitals,home for the elders,centers for the
disabled and other community organisations
Introduction
GVDA
is a leading international non-profit organisation established
in kenya since 1997.Its aim is to build partnership and
increase co-operation between kenyan communities and people
living in developed worlds through a range of development
programmes.
GVDA
seeks to improve international and cross-cultural understanding
by providing opportunities for local and international volunteers
to live alongside ,learn from and share skills with kenyan
communities and abroad.
History
Global
voluntary Development Association (GVDA) is a non-profit
making organization established and registered in March
1997 as a local NGO but registered to operate on an international
mandate under registrar of societies. The project was started
as a youth vigilante group for peace.
Members met and worked on voluntary basis in Mathare Valley.
One of Africa’s largest and poorest slums. The youth
and community members help identifying community problems
e.g. poverty, diseases, violence e.t.c and voluntary supported
activities at their door step and backyard. Having gained
grass root support, the group nurtured other objectives
to alleviate poverty through voluntarism. In the advent
of AIDS scourge declared a national disaster, GVDA has undertaken
an aggressive community based HIV/Aids awareness campaigns
through work camps. Since that time and up to the present
the organization has continued to grow, reshaping its projects
while remaining true to its mission.
To
build the spirit of voluntarism which provide integral sustainable
and human development and encouraging partnership in caring
of the environment by inspiring voluntarism and enabling
nations and people to improve their quality of life without
compromising their future generations.
Aims
a)
Promotes and organize voluntary service activities in co-operation
with local communities as well as other local. National
and international organizations as a means of fostering
greater confidence between people of different social cultural,
political or religious background by working learning and
living together.
b)Support
Community initiative by providing volunteers and resources
that are otherwise unavailable.
c)Facilitate
personal growth. Encourage team work and group decision
making.
This
phase can range from 1-3 days depending on the time availability
for your group. If your group has a limited time, the orientation
just covers the local culture, religious society, ways of life,
safety issues, and program orientation. After orientation, your
group goes directly to the volunteer project. However, if orientation
is more than 2 days, we combine language, cultural immersion and
travel programs.
GVDA
GROUP II(I months- 12 weeks):
This is the core component of the program itinerary.
Depending upon time availability for your group, volunteering
periods can range from 1 month to 12 weeks. Given interest of
the group, we can arrange variety of projects such as orphanage
help, teaching, HIV/AIDS, construction, women projects etc. Generally,
one project cannot host more than 4-5 volunteers, and therefore,
we usually divide the group into small sub groups (4-10) members
in one group. We try our best to keep these groups so that they
can share their experience in the evening.
Depending on location, the majority of volunteers live in host
family, we also arrange for daily transportation.
GVDA
GROUP III (2-12 days):
Travel and exploitation is also an important pat
of enriching your volunteer experience. Depending upon you interest,
the travel phase ranges from 2-12 days (or possibly more). In
this phase, your group will now get to explore the landscape,
forest, wildlife and historic sites . You will get to experience
the beauty and tranquility of these foreign lands on foot as you
travel and hike through wilderness.
Are
you with a group of more than 3 people?
Are
you interested in developing your ordinarily for volunteering
and traveling? GVDA assures you affordable, unique, small group
volunteer travel programs.
The process of program for your group begins with e-mail from
you a group member representing the group. Whether you are a teacher,
member of professional organization or looking to travel with
friends and family.
Look through the project of interest for your group then fill
in the application together indicating the number of group. Please
send you application form together.
Our
Volunteers get involved in different varied but exciting community
projects
Enjoy
Our Wildlife
Kenyan
game parks are among the worlds best.Get to enjoy what Kenyan
nature has to offer
Educational Tours
GVDA International Volunteer program brings
you endless opportunities to explore Kenya Community Adventure
revered by anthologists as the cradle of humanity.
See this country in a different light as
you join a jungle safari program,explore the village,practice
swahili and culture program.
Explore
the great kenya while serving the rural population affected and
infected with the HIV AIDS,poverty and other social problems.
The
program features a week of training in the local language(mainly
swahili)and immerses participants in the unique culture of local
community
How
To Partner With GVDA
Have
an agreement between GVDA and the prospective partner renewable
annually
Annual
progress evaluation between GVDA and its partner
An agreement between partners and the best way to solve outstanding
issues on cooperation.
GVDA
Secretariat is headed by executive director.
The
main program are policy and advocacy capacity building and
membership representation by promoting and strengthening people
managing participatory development through organizing voluntary
action and as the voice for voluntary sector, bringing together
the necessary skills and resources for enhancing the organizational
impact of voluntary action for social justice.
