You can support Marianne Center in different ways. You can become a volunteer, do a donation or sponsor one of our students.

To become a volunteer you need to meet our requirements.

Criteria volunteers

• Assertive
• Show initiative
• Flexible
• Responsible
• Able to adjust to the culture and the life in Kenya
• Motivated
• Able to speak English

Assigments for Marianne Center

• Research on progress of the students
• Design a training schedule for physiotherapy
• Design a plan for awareness activities
• Design trainings for teachers and parents
• Design a plan for income generating activities
• Organize sponsor activities
• Create your own plan!

A volunteer will be part of the management team and will be participating in all meetings and decisions.
We expect from volunteers to help out for at least 8 weeks.

Accommodation

You will be staying at a host family near Marianne Center. Marianne Center will arrange your stay. This will cost you approximately 250 dollars a month (depending on the exchange rate). This includes food and accommodation.  Marianne Center will pick you from the airport and bring you to your host family. We also arrange your  introduction week about the do’s and don’ts of Kenya.

You can buy a visa for 25 dollars when you arrive at the airport in Nairobi.

There are lots of opportunities to enjoy Kenya besides your work. We can help you arrange fantastic safaris and trips to the coast and meet people from all over the world.

Experience from our volunteer:

My name is Laura van den Heuvel and I am a student from International Hospitality Management in the Netherlands. In my third year I did a minor Humanitarian Management. In order to complete the minor, a 10 week internship should be done in either South-Africa, The Netherlands or Kenya. I preferred Kenya because the country and the project interested me.

I went to Kenya in April 2009 for 10 weeks to assist the management team of Marianne Center.  I lived with a host family, which helped me to understand more about the Kenyan culture and to experience the African way of life. My time at Marianne Center was interesting and informative. I worked on 3 specific issues; sponsor a student project; income generating activities and fund raising. My contribution consisted mainly out of paperwork, because the activities at Marianne Center were not yet started. Organizing a fund raising activity is really a challenge in an African country, where people react in a different manner on fund raising than you might be used to.

My overall experience is really positive. Within these 10 weeks I learned a lot about culture, dealing with challenging situations and I met many new interesting people. Marianne Center is an important initiative, since there is so much need for it in Kenya and Africa as a whole. It was great to cooperate with a group of people who work with so much love for Marianne Center.