Many children in Africa are orphaned and needy due to loss of their parents/ guardians to diseases like HIV/AIDS, cancer and hence leading them to fend for themselves at a very young age.
Some families are currently headed by children. Imagine a child that has not even acquired education has to take care of over seven young siblings. This will force them to engage in crime in order to make ends meet. Others may decide to abandon their families because they can’t take up the big responsibility.
These children end up on streets and engage in drug abuse, theft, pick pocketing and all sorts of bad habits. If caught by police, they end up in junior prisons. While some get rehabilitated and by the time they come out, they are reformed, others come out even worse than before. So what future do these children have?
It is our responsibility to make sure that these children do not even feel the absence of their parents in life. We should also resettle back those children that ran away from home and manage the circumstances that led to their leaving in the first place. The children are our future. If we do not show them love and equip them with the right morals on how to survive, what will the future be like for them? And how about the next generation?
Let us work together and bring a change. Make the children happy. Show them love and care. Equip them with skills that will help them earn a living in future. Play with them. Spend time talking to them. Most of these children are traumatized by the experiences that they go through. So counseling them is a requirement. It is in such sessions that a child gains trust in you and once they gain your trust, they open up and this makes it easier on how to help them or even reunite them with their families.
Volunteer Schedule
As a volunteer, your daily schedule will depend on the activities that you are interested in. A normal day schedule for a child care volunteer will involve waking up early. This is because the children wake up early and so their activity program starts as early as 6am. The volunteer will then start preparing for the day’s activities.
Breakfast will be taken by 7am to 8am. At 8:30, the day’s program will then begin till 4pm. There will be a break from 10am to 11pm and also lunch break from 1pm to 2pm. After 4pm, the volunteer can engage in sports or any other leisure activity that the children will be involved in.
This program will run from Monday to Friday. Evenings and weekends are volunteer’s free time and can choose how to spend them. However, we request that before you leave the project, you inform the coordinator or any administrator at the project site.
Volunteer Tasks
As a child care volunteer in Africa, you will be involved in a number of tasks. These will include the daily activities/programs.
- Help out in general cleaning.
- Read the stories to the children.
- Help out in general cleaning.
- Teach them English or languages.
- Help in washing their clothes.
- Paint and color with the children.
- Have counseling sessions with them.
- If they are minors, you could help in changing them.
- Taking them to bed and reading them bed time stories.
- Play with the children during their free time. The children engage in sports, music, dance and drama, storytelling and other forms of having fun. You are also welcome to teach them any new games or songs.
HOW TO APPLY
To start the process fill Volunteer application form and submit it for consideration and book your placement. For more information on how to get enrolled for the volunteering experience of a lifetime contact us. Or Give us a call | WhatsApp | Telegram | Viber | Imo at +254-796-786292 to talk to a Program Specialist.
