Helping Hands Tours & Safaris

 

The other side of Kenya...


Helping Hands Tours & Safaris gives you the opportunity to experience the 'other side of Kenya'. Most tourist operators only offer trips and excursions to the tourist hot spots of Kenya, but HHT&S is different. We have close connections to different organizations in Kenya, who have projects in the slums or rural areas. As a tourist you can join these organizations in their work and see and even contribute to the people in Kenya who are poor or need some kind of aid. Two of the main organizations that Helping Hands Tours & Safaris is cooperating with are Community Support Group (CSG) and Matibabu Foundation.
We can organize volunteer work for you, off course combined with some safari or beach leisure!

To give some more information about possible volunteer projects, we gave some exampes below:

    Youth Friendly Centre

    The Women's Centre

    The Community Vocational Training Centre (CVTC)

    Students for Education, Empowerment, and Development (SEED)

    The Matibabu Health Clinic

    Pamoja



Volunteer Projects

Youth Friendly Centre

    The Youth Friendly Centre strives to empower youths to realize their potential for self-help. The Centre, in conjunction with the Matibabu Health Clinic, also stresses the need of dialogue, specifically regarding health and reproductive issues such as HIV/AIDS.


The Women's Centre

    The Women's Centre aims to provide a platform for women of all ages to empower themselves and realize their own abilities and potential for self-help. It provides a safe haven for women to voice their concerns or opinions pertaining to issues that affect their lives.


The Community Vocational Training Centre (CVTC)

    The CVTC targets youths and members of the community that are not able to continue their education due to a lack of financial resources. To prevent rural-urban migration and mushrooming of the city slums, the Centre seeks to teach useful skills, such as tailoring and carpentry, to provide members with a means of making a living in their respectivecommunities.


Students for Education, Empowerment, and Development (SEED)

    SEED is an international organization that raises scholarship money to fund young successful Kenyan students with financial constraints to continue their education. The scholarships are supported through fundraising efforts in Canada.


The Matibabu Health Clinic

    The Matibabu Health Clinic focuses on providing quality medical health are at a subsidized cost to local residents. Other projects run by the health clinic include the Healthy Children's Clinic (that focuseson the issue of worm control) and the Mosquito Net Project.


Pamoja

    Project Pamoja is a joint project between Kenya's Community Support Group Kibera (CSG Kibera) and Theatre Recap (a Canadian theatre company dedicated to telling stories and provoking thought both locally and overseas).

    Objctives:

      - A forum for the education and entertainment of the Kibera community
      - A network of like minded local artists with supplemental training and a passion for inspiring change through their expression
      - A bridge across the ocean to Canadian organizations with a desire to support Kibera's and Kenya's artistic community, and its future ventures
      - The benefit and notoriety of media attention