NGO MONDO
CIVS COMMUNITY SERVICE
NAIROBI, Kenya
⭐️ Activity Title
Digital skills volunteer
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
This innovative project, led by CIVS Kenya in partnership with MONDO, takes place at key resource centers in the Kano Plains region of Kisumu County, specifically Nyakach and Kuth Awendo. These centers serve as vital community development hubs offering ICT training, climate-smart agriculture, early childhood education, and more. Addressing a critical digital skills gap especially among youth and vulnerable children the project aims to boost employability and resilience by enhancing digital literacy. These skills are essential to unlocking new educational and career opportunities in an area facing growing challenges from climate change.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements Volunteers will stay in a shared, comfortably furnished apartment with basic kitchen and bathroom facilities. Electricity and water are generally reliable but may occasionally be interrupted, enhancing immersion in local life. Volunteers will learn traditional hand-washing of clothes with guidance from local mentors and prepare their own meals. Transport to project sites is by motorcycle, while trips to markets or Kisumu City use public minibuses. Volunteers are responsible for managing their personal transportation.
Training during the activity
As part of the BRIDGE Project (Building Resilience, Innovation, Development, and Gender Equality), volunteers will work toward empowering vulnerable communities, especially women. Training includes skills development workshops, digital literacy enhancement, participation in UN Women Summits, and facilitating digital training sessions. Volunteers will gain hands-on experience in capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and social impact-driven project execution while refining leadership and communication skills.
Participant profile
The digital skills volunteer confidently uses essential digital tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Zoom, Google Drive) and understands online safety basics. They create simple social media content and excel at explaining digital skills clearly and patiently. Adaptability, intercultural experience, and a passion for mentoring are key. Comfortable with a range of digital devices, the volunteer will serve as an inspiring role model, empowering learners of all ages to confidently use technology. Candidates must be 18 to 35 years old, reside in one of the eligible countries (EU Member State, North Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Turkey), have completed the compulsory Humanitarian Aid Volunteering training and not have participated before in individual Humanitarian Aid Volunteering. When adding together this new volunteering opportunity and any previous participation in EU volunteering programmes, the total duration cannot exceed 12 months.
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
A total of 26 week(s) during the period 14/09/2026 to 30/11/2027
Activity location
KENOL STATION BUILDING BURUBURU, NAIROBI, Kenya
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye
Activity topics
Social challenges
Education and training
Employment and entrepreneurship
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 31/08/2026 23:59
Project code
2024-1-EACEA-VOLUN-101191889
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/53879_en
