HSHC- Internships

Volunteers can take a variety of tasks, depending on your education, work experience and the duration of your stay. Activities could vary from designing a marketing strategy for the oil products to updating our website to fundraising and writing proposals, to helping with landscaping and farming to assisting with the oil production. It is also possible to train community members in topics such as entrepreneurship or on ICT. We can also link students up with near-by schools, orphanages or hospitals.

Research projects could include:

• Effects of climate change
• Prevention of bird predation
• Effects of programmes on gender-equality
• Market surveys
• Identification of marketable non-wood forest products
• Product Development
• Internally Displaced People  Etc.

If you are interested in specific activities, feel free to ask for the possibilities. We will try to satisfy your preferences. You are welcome at HSHC if you meet the following requirements:

• For interns: You are in the final year of a Bachelor or Master study in one of the following fields: (organic) agriculture, livestock / poultry, forestry, water management / irrigation, business, marketing, ICT, development studies, anthropology or human geography;
• You are available for at least 3 months;
• You can work independently;
• You are flexible and can adapt easily to different cultural circumstances;
• You are comfortable to live in a rural environment with limited facilities and leisure opportunities;
• You can show proof of a medical insurance and preferably also baggage insurance;
• You have enough funds to pay for your ticket, insurance and living expenses. 

Expenses

HSHC is a non-profit organisation and depends on gifts and subsidies. Therefore we ask volunteers and interns for a small contribution. Please contact HSHC for more information.

In turn HSHC offers the following:

• Pick-up from the airport and transport to Naro Moru and back
• Accommodation in a comfortable guest house with electricity and running (hot) water. You will have your own room with bath room.
• 3 meals per day prepared for you, coffee and tea available
• Laundry service
• Professional support and guidance by HSHC staff
• Security through night guard 

Expenses that are NOT included are, among others:

• Flight to Kenya
• Visa
• Insurances
• Vaccinations
• Local travel (except pick-up from airport and transport to Naro Moru upon arrival)
• Meals and food taken outside the guest house, sodas, alcohol etc.
• Internet and telephone expenses
• Excursions, touristy trips
• Other personal expenses

If you think you will need a computer for your work, we’d advise you to bring your own laptop since computer facilities are only available to a limited extent.

More information
If you are interested in volunteering or interning at HSHC, please feel free to contact us to discuss your preferences. We can inform you further about the practicalities and the further process.

http://hshc.or.ke/volunteer-programme.