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  • Vacancy for Volunteer in Kenya

  • Contact person: Youth Education Support Kenya
  • Youth Education Support
  • Host: Youth Education Support: http://www.yes.or.ke
  • Location: Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya
  • Deadline: 31/07/2013
  • Start: 01/08/2013
  • End: 31/12/2013

  • Introduction:
    Kenya's education system is based on an 8-4-4 system, which is eight years in primary school, four years in secondary school and four years in tertiary education. Despite the Kenyan government's declaration of a Free Primary Education (FPE) policy, over 1.7 million children remain out of school, the majority of who are children living in poverty.

    The lack of opportunity for children to be educated and live in peaceful and developed environment is rooted in poverty and its cultural manifestations.

    The children of youth age affected by poverty, diseases (HIV/AIDS), violence (family conflicts and tribal crashes are desperately in need of immediate income and the subsequent denial of education just creates a prolonged cycle that further traps them in poverty. Access to education is prohibitively expensive and inaccessible to them due to a lack of support.

    Youth Education Support
    Youth Education Support [YES] [www.yes.or.ke] is a non-profit organization that works with friends around the world to support a growing number of youths who have been excluded or exclude themselves from the education and training system mainly due to effects from family poverty, diseases (HIV/AIDS), violence (family conflicts and tribal crashes).

    YES works to mitigate the effects of poverty on youth education so that they can participate in their communities to realize peace and sustainable development. We believe that supporting youths through education allows them to participate in promoting a culture of peace and development in their communities and without sufficient support; youths cannot be able to overcome the abusive cycle of poverty and exclusion in participation.

    Through the YES program, the youths are able to be educated in secondary schools and trained in career skills such as iCT including digital computer literacy, graphics design, web design and media [video and film], entrepreneurship, life and other vocational skills.

Tasks

Support Opportunities: We seek to partner with support friends with an interest to visit Kenya and volunteer in YES program activities that include but not limited to: • Teach english subjects to youths in formal and non formal secondary schools. The core subjects include English and math, chemistry, physics, biology, history, geography and civics. • Train a variety of skills to youth, such as iCT skills including digital [computer] literacy, graphics design, web design and media [video and film] skills, entrepreneurship and life skills including youth healthy lifestyle, HIV/AIDS prevention education. • Provide resources in digital village hubs for youths that provide education, training and advocacy activities. • Organize educational and training workshops and camps • Organize recreational activities in sports [soccer, netball, basketball, and volleyball], music, dance, drama, choir, educational theatre productions and youth group discussions, counseling and training toward income-generating activities. • Out-reach support visits (to youths in local family homes, schools, hospitals and prisons). • Mentoring, counseling and advocacy activities to the youths. • Supporting the education needs of youths

Criteria

Interested participants can write to: DIRECTOR YOUTH EDUCATION SUPPORT [YES] P.O. Box 45818 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.yes.or.ke
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