INTRODUCTION:
WELCOME TO NICHA PLUS ENTERPRISES.
We offer volunteer opportunities at an affordable costs.We encourage any one out there who would like to spend his time with the community.
Contact and Volunteer with us information
We need you to volunteer with us:
As well as donations, Nicha plus Kenya relies heavily on volunteers in order that our many program mes can continue. We welcome people from all over the world, of all ages and genders, who can offer help through their experiences, skills and hard work. Although there are specific roles that need filling, we also encourage individuals who have alternative project ideas (as long as they fit in with Nicha plus aims and objects) to contact us. We want you to get as much out of your experience as possible whilst at the same time, making a difference in the lives of some of the most poverty-stricken people in Kenya.
Volunteer with our organic farming program me
We need volunteers who can help us to run our educational seminars. The topics we promote at the moment are:
1. Manufacturing all kinds of detergents, cake soaps & soya products.
2. Involving farmers to produce raw materials for our products i.e. cotton, sunflowers, palm oil, avocado, aloevera & soya beans.
3. Inter cropping
4. Crop rotation
5. Integrated Pest Management
6. Double digging
7. Animal husbandry
8. Mixed cropping
9. Aggro forestry
10. Water harvesting
11. Cooperative farming
12. HIV/AIDS awareness/support groups.
13. Organicagriculture.
14. vermiculture.
15. Soil conservation.
16. Liquid compost/green manure.
17. Green house farming technology/crop nutrition/pest management/disease management and crop hygiene.
18. water conservation &management i.e. harvesting &new technologies like drip irrigation.
19. Animal production and health i.e feeding and housing in organic systems.
20. Pasture management we offer training and one on one demonstrations to our small scale farmers'/groups,orphanage schools.
21. Economic empowerment
We are also always open to more ideas from experienced persons in the field of organic farming, aggro forestry, land management, environmental studies and other related subjects.
As well as being part of the education and advice branch of Nicha plus, we need volunteers who can help with manual labor in our newly started factory in Bungoma town. This is good, honest, hard work! Lots of sweating, digging, planting and carrying, all for a good cause.
Volunteer in fund raising and administration
As with all organizations, Nicha plus always needs volunteers to help with fund raising and administration. We need people who are able to write grant applications and source potential donors as until we are able to become self-sufficient (our dream for the future), we require continuous outside support.
As well as fund raising, we also need people to help us manage the day-to-day running of Nicha plus, responding to emails, updating the website, helping with the monthly newsletter (writing and distributing)
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS ON MOBILE CLINICS
On health we are running mobile clinics in the remote/marginal areas in the district. We do atleast 1 clinic per month and attending to about 50 patients mostly children, around the following Districts: Teso, Bungoma south, Bungoma North, Bungoma West, and other Districts. We need volunteers who can help us in the running of the same project. HIVAIDS clients are supported by giving them free home based care treatment and counseling, ensuring that they access ARVSART from the medical centers.
Generally we need the volunteers in the various activities that are run by the organization. Please you are allowed on which of the organization activities that you really want to work i.e.
We need teachers’ volunteers to assist us in our vast 3,000 schools within Bungoma Districts and its environment.
Who are ready to work with micro-finance,in research and Soap production.
The youth, women, men on HIV AIDS, awareness, ARV provision by taking to the hospitals to get the drugs, sponsor the youth tournaments, sports which we intend to organize every year.
So feel free to choose which part you can handle best you are most welcomed.
Costs and general information
Until the compound is built at the Nicha plus plot, volunteers are housed with a local family just in the main town of Bungoma. You will sleep in a permanent house and have all your meals provided for by the family you stay with.
-The cost per week for accommodation and food is USD$70 per week (USD$280 per month)
-Airport pick up fee of USD$ 200.
- Minimum one off donation (program fee) of USD$750 directly to Nicha plus account before you arrive in the country. This program fee is to cover administration costs and to help enable us to keep our projects going and paying salaries to the teachers and other administrations that the organization is going through.
As the volunteer you can fund raise the above amount from your friends and family by simply explaining what the fund is for and I think people would be willing to help. Please we really need that donation for it to make us grow and being stress free on how we are going to support the orphans and the rest of the community. We can only ever estimate how much money you will need for personal spending as this depends entirely on what you like doing in your spare time!
Volunteer placements are for a minimum of 3 months, although we do make exceptions for highly skilled persons. The reason for the minimum period is to ensure continuity of projects and that persons volunteering are serious about what they want to be able to offer Nicha plus, as well as being serious about what they want to get out of it for themselves. For every 3 months you volunteer, you can have 2 weeks off mid-placement to sample the delights of Kenya and its neighbors, be that on safari to places like the Masai Mara, city visits, trips to the coast or across the border to Uganda or Tanzania.
What we need from you
Initial inquiries about volunteering at Nicha plus should be addressed to Charles Nyachoti at
nichaplus@yahoo.com and should include information on the following:
-Your name, age and qualifications or relevant skills.
-Experience, if any, of Africa or any other developing country, or any volunteer work you have already carried out.
-Length of time you are available to volunteer and when.
-What kind of work you would be most interested in doing.
We hope to hear from you soon!
