Your Round Square Conference in Kenya will include a day devoted to challenging service projects. Kibera, one of the largest informal settlements or slums in the world, is located in Nairobi and most of the population earns less than a $1 a day. Through your participation in one of the 30 planned service projects you will impact positively on the lives of others.
All of the projects will be based around Nairobi and will involve one or more of the following activities:
- Working with children in a home, school or orphanage
- An environmental project, such as planting trees or recycling
- A physical project that involves building, creating or decorating an environment
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It would be much appreciated if each delegate would engage in a small service activity project prior to your visit. When you arrive in Kenya we will pool all the items made and ensure they reach the appropriate venue during our Service Day -
- You could make a small soft toy or hand puppet to give as a gift to an orphan
- You could work with your classmates to make a quilt for a baby’s cot
- You could organise a fundraising event at your school to support a feeding programme at one of the slums (we take our three meals a day for granted but many children in the slums have one meal a day if they are lucky).
- If everyone at the conference arrived with a pre-school reading book we could equip a library in a school in one of the slums.
- Some children cannot go to school because they don’t have a pair of shoes. If you could bring an old pair of shoes that would fit someone aged 4-10 you could give them the gift of being able to attend school.
We aim to make your Service Day involvement one that will truly extend your understanding and awareness.
During our Service Day we will be working with many of our key community service partners in Nairobi, including:
- The Kenya Society for Protection and Care of Animals (KSPCA)
- Riding for the Disabled
- Seed Academy, Kibera
- Marula Studios, where waste becomes art
- Kioko Designs, producing waste sculptures
- Kenya Wildlife Service, on various environmental projects
- Massai Community Project, Kitengela
- The Disabled School, Waiyaki Way
- Toto Knits, a women’s self-help project
- Kazuri Beads
- New Life Home, an AIDS orphanage
- Dagoretti Children’s Home
- Dr Bernardo’s Children’s Home
- Nyumbani Home for children with HIV
- Beacon of Hope clinic for HIV patients
- Kuwinda Children’s Home
- Nyathuna Feeding Programme
- St Nicholas Children’s Home
- Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
- The Giraffe Sanctuary
- Mitumba Slum School
- Kibera Reading Centre
- The Kawangware Refugee School
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