Kenya
Vocational Training Centre for the Blind and Deaf – Sikri
Kisumu – Homa Bay County
Sikri works for the education of above all children and teenagers with auditory and visual impairment, partial also with deafblindness or mental disability. The institution is located in the Homa Bay County in a rural area. The training centre has the areas gardening, wood workshop, construction work, rehabilitation, weaving and rehabilitation of deafblind persons.
Field of work: work with children and teenagers, education
Qualification: Experience in dealing with persons with disability (especially with visual impairment), openness and commitment, independence, intercultural sensibility, disposition to learn Kisuaheli and if required basics of the sign language, basic knowledge in the area of occupational/social, command of English and manual skills advantageous
Function of volunteers: support for example in the fields of eduacation and training arts, craft, gardening etc., work as an assistant in the school or in the free-time-activities, communication with the pedagogical staff, implementation of own ideas in consultation with the local staff
Number of volunteers: 1
Accommodation: in the project
Departure: between July and October
Stay: 12 months
Information about the country
Name: Republic of Kenya
Climate: tropical (Coast), semi-arid and arid (North, Northeast), subtropical (Highland/Centre)
Location: East Africa, borders the South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda and the Indian Ocean
Capital: Nairobi
Local language: English, Kiswahili and numerous so-called „vernacular languages“
Source: Auswärtiges Amt [Effective: May 2012]