Volunteering
Every volunteer has different expectations and ideas of what a volunteer service is. Some volunteer on their own, some volunteer in small groups, and some in larger groups. Our volunteering team will spend time prior to your volunteer service discussing with you what it is you wish to achieve during you time and bring together a package which hopes to incorporate both opportunity for volunteering and experiencing the pleasures of Africa.
For more information regarding volunteering with us, view the below document containing the most frequently asked questions by prospective volunteers.
To Apply for a placement click here
Projects
There are a variety of projects available and tailor made plans will be set in place to meet your needs as much as possible. Here are just a few:
- An estimation of £18,000 will build a four bed roomed house for 10 children and two staff.
- Please see LIA’s web site for more details on the village. It is imperative that a minimum of 20 houses are built as soon as possible so that the children can come out of rented accommodation.
- The Tudor Village is set on 11 acres of land situated between Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.
- Part funding of these houses can also be sponsored such as the roof, the windows, the electrics, the water connections etc.
- Out reach Programs will take you out to provide much needed medication to the Chagga’s, Pari’s and Massai tribes living in remote villages many of who are unable to access government dispensaries because of the distance.
- Many elderly men and women and women in childbirth are victims of lack of local medical services. LIA’s service to the community offers a life line to those in need.
- The medication you buy for one day out reach will support between 150 and 250 patients. It’s a long, gruelling day but worth every moment
- A task that’s always needed. General up keep and maintance of each and every children’s home is never ending. Design and paint the kids bedrooms or living area, personalising them for the children.
- Always appreciated by the children is the creativity of volunteers. Use your imaginations and creative skills to build and produce exciting play and learning areas for the children.
- Generally house builds will be for widows and her children
Light In Africa’s Tudor Village Children’s Homes:
Purchasing of medication for an Out Reach Medical Dispensary Day
Painting or general maintance work with in LIA’s children’s homes.
Design and make children play areas inside or out
House builds for families living in poor housing.
