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One Home Many Hopes Visitor Program Overview

One Home Many Hopes welcomes volunteers to engage with us through participation in their local OHMH chapters. We need commited people with special knowledge, skills or just a willing heart to live a life that matters.

Find your nearest OHMH chapter to engage with us from your home country.


To better equip you to do justice right where you are, OHMH brings two groups of up to 10 volunteers to Kenya twice per year.  These trips are tailored to the make up of each group, but the primary goals of the visit remain constant:

    1. To equip you to play a leading role in OHMH in your area. Whether that means joining a team in your existing chapter, or starting your own, this visit gives you the first-hand experience to inspire others who may never get to visit Kenya about OHMH’s work. You will return to your home as an ambassador for the OHMH vision.
    2. To support the leadership development, social and emotional health, and academic success of the girls by serving as a strong adult role models.  We welcome volunteers who are interesting in sharing their arts, music, education, sports, drama, etc expertise by creating programming for the girls during their visit.  The home is located in a very rural part of coastal Kenya, so visitors who tend to get the most out of their experience are flexible and easy-going people who are willing to briefly trade the comforts of their world for a life-changing experience.

 

Participants on our visitor program view their trip as the beginning or the deepening of their involvement with One Home Many Hopes – not the peak. You will be entering the lives and homes of girls who have experienced enough abandonment already. We are in the healing business, not the voluntourism business. Visitors are expected to commit to at least one year of monthly financial support ($25/month minimum), to creating a Breaking Ground fundraising page in our annual autumn campaign, and to playing an active part in their local OHMH chapter.

The cost of the 10-day trip is $3000, which includes flight, room and board, local transportation, and administration costs such as a background check. The trips are scheduled every year to coincide with Kenyan school holidays.  At this time, OHMH is unable to host additional groups or individual trips during the year.

We recognize that these trips require significant sacrifice from you and so we are committed to making your experience as smooth and meaningful as possible. Our Volunteer Visitor Coordinator Lydia Bradley is available to answer any questions you have about the application process and will provide support before, during and after the trip. We can also give you ideas for raising funds to help pay for your trip.

These trips have dramatically enhanced the perspective and  worldview of past volunteers and we hope they will do the same for you.

The next volunteer trip will be March 30 – April 7, 2012.  (The Winter 2011 trip is now closed and full) To see more details about the 2011 and 2012 dates, please click here:  2011 & 2012 Important Dates.

Please send your completed volunteer application form to visit@onehomemanyhopes.org by September 1, 2011 (for participation in the November/December 2011 trip).