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The program is designed as a direct response to acute food insecurity and famine affecting rural families. It provides immediate nutritional support to over 1,000 orphaned, starving, and highly vulnerable children, as well as hundreds of struggling households.
The initiative runs decentralized operations across 5 village feeding centers. These centers serve as localized hubs where meals are systematically prepared and distributed to kids
5 hours of help per week
Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.
Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.
Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Discounts on Restaurants: Get discounts at nearby restaurants.
Discounts on Pubs: Get discounts at nearby pubs.
Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.
Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.
Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.
Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.
Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.
Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.
Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.
Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely
Intermediate English
Between 60 and 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
The initiative runs decentralized operations across 5 village feeding centers. These centers serve as localized hubs where meals are systematically prepared and distributed to keep vulnerable children from having to resort to the streets for survival. Families and children often gather at these designated spots, which utilize makeshift structures like feeding tents and dining shades.
🍲 Key Program Services
• Emergency Hot Meals: The program serves daily hot village meals, primarily consisting of high-nutrient porridge for young orphans.
• Baby Formula Support: Critical distributions of milk are provided specifically to save starving infants and babies under a year old who lack access to breastmilk or solid food.
• Household Take-Home Packages: To combat total household starvation, the program distributes bulk dry rations—including large sacks of posho (maize flour), beans, sugar, salt, and cooking oil—directly to grandmother-led and child-headed homes.
🎯 Target Beneficiaries
The program prioritizes the most critically vulnerable demographics in the region:
• Over 500 rural orphans who face daily severe hunger.
• More than 300 vulnerable households, with an emphasis on homes managed by elderly grandmothers or older siblings caring for young family members
Activities at the feeding centers focus heavily on immediate nutritional rescue and community stabilization:
• Hot Meal Preparation & Cooking: Staff and volunteer cooks use firewood and large saucepans to prepare daily hot meals.
• Porridge Distribution: Preparing and serving nutritious morning porridge to vulnerable children and orphans to combat early-morning hunger.
• Infant Nutrition Support: Distributing specialized baby milk to rescue starving infants under a year old.
• Emergency Take-Home Pack Distribution: Organizing and handing out bulk survival packages containing staple foods like posho (maize flour), beans, sugar, salt, and cooking oil to highly vulnerable households.
While specific hourly shifts are determined dynamically by resource availability and current famine levels, the general daily schedule at the 5 centers is divided into two primary shifts:
• Morning Shift (Breakfast & Prep): Focuses on preparing and serving hot village porridge for children and distributing life-saving baby milk. Volunteers arrive early to manage the fires and boil the porridge.
• Afternoon Shift (Main Meal & Family Distribution): Centers on boiling beans and cooking heavy posho or meat and greens for substantial, balanced meals. This shift also handles the organized pickup of emergency take-home food packages for local grandmother- and child-headed households.
.• Safeguarding Compliance: Volunteers must strictly adhere to the organization’s child protection rules and safeguarding policies. This includes participating in Community Child Protection sessions.
• Time Commitment: Typical schedules require working 4 to 5 hours daily, across 5 to 6 days a week. Schedules are flexible depending on school activities and your skill set.
• No Financial Remuneration: In line with local NGO policies, positions are strictly non-salaried volunteer roles aimed at community service.
• Cultural Respect: Volunteers must maintain absolute respect for local community structures, staff members, and the beneficiaries (primarily grandmothers, orphans, and child-headed households
