Teaching Internships
Education Improvement
Onyalo Primary School lies at the heart of the rural community in Migori with classroom populations up to 60 pupils. A project in this school would include teaching, building desks, reparing the windows to provide the kids with a more condusive learning environment. Volunteer as a group on gap year and summer school expeditions and provide the education development and through inspiration and confidence that is passed on to the children, spend time with the children for their personal development, adding a global dimension to their education.
The impact you will make
- Building and refurbishing classrooms
- Plastering walls and decorating walls for children
- Adding to the pupils stationery to enhance the pupils learning
- Teaching sciences, languages such as English and music & arts
- Life skills training and guidance and counseling
- Sports coaching, physical education and dance classes
The impact you will make
- Part of the fee paid by our volunteers goes to sponsoring this children’s education
- Directly constructing beds and renovating the accommodation house for the kids
- Teaching sciences, conversational English, music & arts
- Elementary child and parental care
- Empowering minors to be self-reliant i.e. life skills lessons and motivational speaking
Childcare and Orphanage
Elective Africa partners with Emmanuel Children's Home. This Center welcomes orphaned and vulnerable children who have either lost their parents due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic or are being cared for by ailing grandparents.
Community Development
Migori County occupants are small scale farmers rearing livestock & practicing crop farming for a living. The income is normally not sufficient to sustain the families and the community at large. These communities have limited access to basic social amenities such as healthcare and sanitation facilities.
The impact you will make
- Support local farmers through training and vocational studies
- Installing water storage tanks to supply clean drinking water at various community points
- Work with local women groups to assist in handicraft and beadwork
- Partner with local youth organizations and use your creativity to form solutions to issues they face
Healthcare Projects
As a volunteer on your gap year or summer school trip abroad you will learn and discover the unique challenges of providing adequate medical care in rural communities while contributing to this cause
You will learn what it's like to be a doctor, nurse or global health worker in a developing country, comparing the healthcare practices of the western world with traditional medicine from the region
The impact you will make
- Create awareness on proper hygiene to reduce malaria and cholera outbreak
- Undertake and mobilize resources towards community medical camps
- Door-to-door jigger eradication campaign
- Build facilities that directly improve the health of the community
Environmental Conservation
Are you passionate about preserving the natural world so that future generations can thrive?
The impact you will make
- Encourage long-term community involvement in sustainable practices through service projects that utilize recycled materials and promote "green" living.
- Contribute towards increasing the forest cover within Migori by undertaking tree planting activities.
- Encourage environmental health by unlocking drainage systems along the roads and Migori town cleanup
Go Elective offers community service learning and volunteer abroad experience for students who are freshly from high school or are taking a gap break from University.
Engage in meaningful volunteer work, learn about complex social issues and develop impactful solutions, connect with people from different cultures, and journey to places you’ve only read about in books or seen online. The project work involves volunteering in a group from 12 individuals while working with local communities to create impacts in their lives. School expeditions also involve exploring through Mounting climb excusions, safaris and local tours in Migori Kenya.
We are flexible to customize placements to desired durations and typically operate from 2 to 4-week volunteer programs.
Don't Leave Your Friends Behind!
Most applications are solo trips that then join other participants in the program. However,
you are free to travel with a group of friends or classmates. Moreover, you have the option
of extending your experience by inviting your family to join you for a memorable safari at
the program's conclusion.
Note that there may be group discounts available for those who choose to travel with friends
or classmates.
Other Placement Options
Besides healthcare, other work placement options available are Teaching, Community Development, Business Treks, HIV work, Orphanage Work, Agriculture, Environmental Protection, and more.
Our programs revolve around volunteering, studying abroad, career exploration, cultural immersion, language study, and gap year programs. Which can all be used for school credit.
Success Stories from Our Alumni Network
Go Elective surpassed my expectations. From the moment I arrived, the GE staff made me feel at ease. The shadowing experience I got from the rural clinics in Mombasa was incredible, allowing me to see things I don't think I would have seen anywhere else.
Kayla Foord, Premed Internship
Success Stories from Our Alumni Network
Working with a skilled surgeon was incredible, but the real highlight was the eye-opening experience at the Coast General Hospital. It humbled me and showed me the impact that the medical profession can have worldwide.
Matthew O'Donnell, Medical Elective
Go Elective surpassed my expectations. From the moment I arrived, the GE staff made me feel at ease. The shadowing experience I got from the rural clinics in Mombasa was incredible, allowing me to see things I don't think I would have seen anywhere else.
Kayla Foord, Premed Internship
