14 Days Volunteering in a Children's Home Philanthropy and Maasai Mara Safari in Kenya

Days 1-2: Arrival in Nairobi and orientation

The volunteer safari starts with a meet and greet at the airport and a transfer to your Nairobi hotel. Before proceeding to your volunteering program, you will receive orientation for two days on the African culture, how to behave, what is expected of you, Kenyan history and geography.

• Accommodation: Nairobi hotel
• Meals: Bed and breakfast

Days 3-4: Transfer to your host family

After the orientation, you will be taken to your host family who will host you for the whole duration of volunteering on day three. Day four will be spent bonding with the host family. During your volunteer program you will be accommodated in a pre-selected homestay.

The homestay offers you a lockable room, host parents, two meals a day (breakfast and dinner), mosquito net, and an opportunity to interact with locals and learn how to cook local dishes.

Days 5-11: Volunteering in a children’s home

During your volunteering period, you will engage in day to day activities of running the children's home. The orphanage activities include cooking, feeding kids, laundry, assisting them with their homework, administrative work, general grooming, dressing, and soothing them to sleep.

The children home you will be volunteering in can be a walking distance or with minimal commuting from the hosting family.

Day 12: Nairobi - Maasai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast, drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where visitors may see animals in the same super-abundance as it existed a century ago. Arrive for lunch at your lodge. Have an afternoon game drive until sunset. Dinner and overnight will be at Mara Springs Tented Camp or an equivalent accommodation.

• Meals: Full board

Day 13: Full day game drive in Maasai Mara National Reserve

Early breakfast is followed by an exciting full morning game viewing drive, including a visit to Mara River to view the hippos. There is also an early morning optional balloon ride with champagne-style breakfast available. You will spend the whole day in the Maasai Mara with morning and afternoon game drives. Dinner and overnight will be at Mara Springs Tented Camp or an equivalent accommodation.

• Meals: Full board

Day 14: Maasai Mara National Reserve - Nairobi

After breakfast, drive to Nairobi, Kenya's colorful capital city, arriving at around midday. You will be dropped off at your hotel, airport, or agreed point.

• Meals: Breakfast

Maasai Mara National Reserve is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where visitors may see animals in the same super-abundance as it existed a century ago.

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You will be provided with bed and breakfast at the Nairobi hotel, breakfast and dinner at the homestay, and full board while on the Maasai Mara safari. On the last day, you will be offered breakfast.

On day 13, there is also an early morning optional balloon ride with champagne-style breakfast available.

• 3 days tour of Maasai Mara National Reserve
• 2 days orientation
• Participation certificate
• Airport transfers
• Outward bound ticket reconfirmation
• Meals according to the itinerary
• 13 nights accommodation

• Airfare

• A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.