This page provides information on some of the international volunteer opportunities available for you in Kenya, East Africa. 

We have international volunteer opportunities for  nurses, doctors, dentists and all other medical professionals including students in these areas; teachers; social workers; gap year students and basically anyone with or without any prior training.

Overseas volunteers work under the supervision of local staff and the persons in charge of placement facility. They are hosted close to the projects under which they work A certificate of participation is issued at the end of the volunteer abroad period.

The volunteer abroad  program can be offered independently (standard program) or in combination with other programs such as the adventures and the language and culture program.

A typical four week  schedule of the Basic international volunteer program looks as follows:

Day 1: Arrival, registration and introduction to the program Day 2: Orientation and introduction to the local language mainly Swahili. Day 3 – 26 Placement with host family and project (eg school for teachers etc) Day 27: Voluntary work Placement ends. Evaluation of volunteer experience.

Kenya Volunteer Teaching Abroad

Your contribution to teach English as a second language or other subjects will be highly appreciated and fulfilling to yourself. We provide international teaching volunteers to number of schools in Kenya, Africa. Volunteer teachers work under the supervision of an experienced member of the school teaching staff appointed by the Head Master/teacher.

A college degree or teaching training are not required, but suitable persons are expected to have at least graduated from high school or be enrolled in a college. On completion of a mandatory teacher orientation, the intern or volunteer abroad teacher will be expected to work for between 4 to 5 hours a day. 

Overseas Voluntary Work With Children in Kenya

The greatest cause of prevalence abandoned children on the streets in Kenya is poverty. As the HIV/AIDS pandemic takes its toll many kids have been left without parents to take care of them. Such neglected kids have often been taken by other families or by charitable persons and groups and put up in orphanages. Orphanage operators are often in great need of labor support to supplement their efforts.

International volunteers at orphanages often teach the schools at the orphanage or in nearby public schools that orphanage children attend;  assist in preparing meals for the kids; doing the dishes and doing the many chores that running such a place entails. In the evening, when the kids are back from school, overseas volunteers with Kenya orphanages play with the children and assist them with their school assignments.

Kenya Medical & Dental Volunteer Service Abroad

Our Africa health volunteer placements are open to medical professionals including doctors, dentists, nurses, medical laboratory technologists, etc. They are also open to students in all medical fields. A professional license, relevant student ID or college letter showing your program and level of study is required at the start of your medical volunteer placement abroad.

All prospective international medical volunteers also need to submit a resume showing their area and level of expertise and what they hope to achieve from the medical volunteer placement in Africa. Prep-program students (such as pre-meds) should apply for the medical internships, not the medical volunteer program.

As an overseas medical volunteer (medical students, nursing students or intern), you will work with local staff in support of the health care efforts. You can also work as a dental or medical assistant volunteer at one of the local hospitals. Generally you will assist/support the doctor/dentists or clinician in the normal routine of medical work e.g. taking vital signs, dressing wounds, taking patients history, counseling patients, providing assurance and moral support to patients' family, disbursing minor drugs etc.

There are a number of medical  and dental clinics in Kenya where you can provide voluntary services. We also have wonderful international volunteer work opportunities for dentists and dental technicians and hygienists in a number of Kenyan hospital dental units.  You will find the Kenya dental and medical volunteer abroad opportunity enlightening and rewarding.

Volunteer with HIV/AIDS Awareness and Care

In collaboration with the local community, a number of local HIV/AIDS project seek to foster awareness about HIV/AIDS by offering free training programs for the community. Ideally volunteers overseas in Kenya in this project are first exposed to the main issues surrounding  HIV and AIDS mainly during the first week.

In subsequent weeks, HIV and AIDS volunteers in Kenya accompany local staff in their routine activities. Those doing volunteer work abroad with this HIV program will participate in offering clinics for patients, families and people wanting to test for HIV and AIDS. Overseas volunteers will also participate in home visit with the patients and families to provide treatment, food, and care and sometimes help with home chores.

International volunteers will be involved in teaching about Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV and AIDS, and teaching about sexuality, to youths and parents. International volunteers with HIV and AIDS program in Kenya should also be prepared to visit with and providing support to orphans of HIV and AIDS,

In addition, international volunteers and overseas interns with the AIDS program should come prepared to learn and participate in community education. International interns and volunteers abroad should also be ready to visit with HIV affected and infected members of the community and assist them with domestic chores.

Animal Health/Veterinary Care Volunteer

This program provides a unique opportunity for animal volunteer work abroad, a chance to learn about animals; about veterinary medicine in general and specifically about the practice in rural Kenya. For those aspiring to join veterinary medical colleges, this may be an eye opener to your career path. For others already enrolled in or graduated from veterinary medicine schools, it will be an opportunity to practice your skills in a foreign setting and learn about tropical animal diseases.

Graduates of veterinary schools or animal science programs are welcome and encouraged to participate in our projects.

International volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya assist the resident veterinary surgeon in his many duties including handling animals and animal feeds, filling and keeping animal records and handling medicines. International volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya are not be required to have prior knowledge of animal care or even veterinary medicine. They will be provided with orientation that will be sufficient for carrying out required tasks.

Nature Conservation Volunteer Service

There are a number of nature conservation projects involving forests , parks, birds and wilderness conservation in Kenya. 

Normal voluntary service duties entail examining birds from the ground, follow their migratory patterns, identify nest making habits, feeding, breeding and other habits, the challenges posed by human activities plus other factors that impede on the survival of these bird. International volunteers  use existing literature and the help of Kenyan college professors need be to identify birds by biological names.

The rest of the overseas volunteer work entails the field study of indigenous trees, their population dynamics, regeneration, survival constraints etc mainly by examination.