Maasai Mara game reserve intercultural exchange volunteer program

Leshuta Boarding Primary School was founded in 2011by community members, and is a mixed sex school. The boys and girls who attend leshuta are between3 and 17 years old. The school currently has 300 pupils and 10 teachers. It is a government school. Located in Mara is a large reserve in Narok County, Kenya contagious with the Serengeti National Park in Mara Region, Tanzania. It is named in honor of the Maasai people ( the ancestral inhabitants of the area and their description of the area when looked at from afar, “Mara, which is Maa (Maasai language) for “spotted”, an apt description for the circles of trees, scrubs, savanna and cloud shadows that mark the area. The Maasai communities are one of the few remaining semi- nomadic ethnic group in Africa and live near the southern border of Kenya and Tanzania

VOLUNTEER ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Teaching English language, computer skills, creative arts, participating in culture events, raise environmental awareness, planting of trees and transfer of seedlings, sports and games, theatre, computer lessons, basic education, workshops, Music and intercultural events, construction sites, making bricks, construction of classrooms and painting.

Volunteers will support the teachers and share culture and other activities in the classrooms in the morning. There will also be opportunity for sports and play with the children. In the afternoon volunteers will work with, Teaching English, Assisting teaching in daily classes, Providing general care and assistance in looking after the children, this will involve playing games, teaching English as basic life skills.

Airport Transfer

You will be met by our representative at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi from where you are transferred to the accommodations in Nairobi itself. Volunteers who will be already in Kenya or arriving overland would need to give us their contact details so that the pickup can be arranged from a specific location.

Accommodation is at school’s dormitory. There will be electricity, but no shower and pipe water/taps at the accommodation. Volunteers will be using buckets for bathing. Water will be boiled for drinking purposes and those who prefer can buy bottled water.

Located in Leshuta, nearNaikarra, Narok, approximately 5hours’ drive from Nairobi. Transport to the project will be by public transport. The closest Market is 5 minutes’ walk. Post Office, Banks (ATMs), Internet and other social facilities are located in Narok Town.