Olive Hill Community project was founded in the year 2018 with the key objective of strengthening capacities of members and the community to achieve suitable integrated social and economic management. The project has a small school that supports vulnerable children who are not able to attend government schools. The community’s support for the school program has enabled them begin to transform lives socially and economically. The project is coming up with income generation programs like the chicken rearing, treated fence poles trade and utilization of the available farm for cultivation. Additionally, they started a football club called Olive Hailers Club which enabled the youth to realize their full potential by enabling them become good members of the society thus avoiding drugs, robbery and early marriages.

They also engage some of the youth in casual labour on our farm while some who are bonified group members volunteer for long term benefits. Others also assist in our periodic fence posts business initiative when we receive orders for treated fence posts locally.

They are also initiating other programs that include community-cleaning exercises, awareness programs especially on HIV Aids, Covid 19 and malaria to save lives of people within the community. The beneficiaries are children and teenagers aged between 3-15 years old and youth who are between 20-40 years old within the community.

Possible tasks of the volunteers :

• Engaging in community cleaning exercises ;

• Assisting in teaching of various subjects like Mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Sciences ;

• Getting involved in the community-based learning programs as shall be directed by staffs on the ground ;

• Health hazards awareness programs on HIV/ AIDS, malaria and Covid-19 pandemic ;

• Engaging in extra-curricular activities and sports with the youth among the community ;

• Engaging in farm work in the project’s farm.

The volunteers will be accommodated at the project site where they will have their own rooms. The project is in a remote village and therefore life will be very simple.

The volunteers will get basic meals i.e. breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The Kenyan food is very diversified, here are several typical dishes from Kenya :

- Ugali: cornmeal added to boiling water to have a cornmeal paste, then served with vegetables or saucy stew.

- Irio: mashed green peas and potatoes with kernels of corn, often served with nyama choma meat.

- Nyama choma: roasted meat served in almost every dished, often goat or beef, but chicken or fish can be used.

- Wali wa nazi: coconut rice served with fish or chicken curry and some vegetables.

The project is located in Panpaper, Lugari , Kakamega County. Volunteers joining in project will have opportunity to visit kakamega Rainforest for hiking.

Our partner organizes tours and safaris to spectacular sites of interest in Kenya. Volunteers, who wish to participate, should let us know as soon as possible in order to enable us to make proper arrangements. The fee charged is all-inclusive of meals, transport, park entry fees, accommodation and tour guiding. The cost of a 3-day safari to Masai Mara National Reserve is 340 Euros.