School Expeditions

Education Improvement

Onyalo Primary School lies at the heart of the rural community in Migori with classroom populations up to 60 pupils. A project in this school would include teaching, building desks, reparing the windows to provide the kids with a more condusive learning environment. Volunteer as a group on gap year and summer school expeditions and provide the education development and through inspiration and confidence that is passed on to the children, spend time with the children for their personal development, adding a global dimension to their education.

The impact you will make

• Building and refurbishing classrooms
• Plastering walls and decorating walls for children
• Adding to the pupils stationery to enhance the pupils learning
• Teaching sciences, languages such as English and music & arts
• Life skills training and guidance and counseling
• Sports coaching, physical education and dance classes

The impact you will make

• Part of the fee paid by our volunteers goes to sponsoring this children’s education
• Directly constructing beds and renovating the accommodation house for the kids
• Teaching sciences, conversational English, music & arts
• Elementary child and parental care
• Empowering minors to be self-reliant i.e. life skills lessons and motivational speaking

Childcare and Orphanage

Elective Africa partners with Emmanuel Children's Home. This Center welcomes orphaned and vulnerable children who have either lost their parents due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic or are being cared for by ailing grandparents.

Community Development

Migori County occupants are small scale farmers rearing livestock & practicing crop farming for a living. The income is normally not sufficient to sustain the families and the community at large. These communities have limited access to basic social amenities such as healthcare and sanitation facilities.

The impact you will make

• Support local farmers through training and vocational studies
• Installing water storage tanks to supply clean drinking water at various community points
• Work with local women groups to assist in handicraft and beadwork
• Partner with local youth organizations and use your creativity to form solutions to issues they face

Healthcare Projects

As a volunteer on your gap year or summer school trip abroad you will learn and discover the unique challenges of providing adequate medical care in rural communities while contributing to this cause

You will learn what it's like to be a doctor, nurse or global health worker in a developing country, comparing the healthcare practices of the western world with traditional medicine from the region

The impact you will make

• Create awareness on proper hygiene to reduce malaria and cholera outbreak
• Undertake and mobilize resources towards community medical camps
• Door-to-door jigger eradication campaign
• Build facilities that directly improve the health of the community

Environmental Conservation

Are you passionate about preserving the natural world so that future generations can thrive?

The impact you will make

• Encourage long-term community involvement in sustainable practices through service projects that utilize recycled materials and promote "green" living.
• Contribute towards increasing the forest cover within Migori by undertaking tree planting activities.
• Encourage environmental health by unlocking drainage systems along the roads and Migori town cleanup