Family Sponsorship Programme

Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) Kenya with its partner organisation AfCiC UK has recently launched a Family Sponsorship Programme, to help street children and their families, offering them the means to lift themselves out of poverty and to move towards financial self-sufficiency. The programme is in its initial stages and only a handful of sponsors have been recruited as yet. The volunteer would play a pivotal role in consolidating and adding momentum to the programme, and significantly increasing the number of street children and families being assisted through sponsorship.

AfCiC UK processes sponsors’ payments and provides them with quarterly updates on sponsoree families (photos, school reports etc.) AfCiC Kenya works with the families to plan how sponsorship money will be used and reports back to AfCiC UK on families’ progress. In addition, AfCiC Kenya will identify new families to benefit from the sponsorship scheme.

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated volunteer to manage our Family Sponsorship Programme in Thika, Kenya.

Tasks:

· Visiting families already benefiting from the sponsorship scheme

· Writing reports on their progress, taking photographs, composing case

studies and collating this information to be sent to sponsors.

· Working with sponsoree families to address set-backs and to solve problems

they are experiencing (identifying need for further training, referring families

on for advice or support)

· Identifying new sponsoree families (liaising with staff at rehabilitation centres

and legal aid project, carrying out home visits and interviews)

· Working with beneficiary families to devise poverty-alleviation strategies

(planning how sponsorship money will be spent over a defined period, and

how financial independence will be achieved once this period is over)

· Recruiting new sponsors (promoting the scheme back at home and within

Kenya through presentations, speeches, leaflets, letters etc)

Time commitment: minimum 6 months.

Skills and experience:

· A highly-motivated self-starter able to work on own initiative in difficult

conditions (slum areas of Kenya)

· Knowledge of sustainable development and poverty reduction

· Experience of working in developing countries or in a multi-cultural

environment

· Excellent inter-personal written and oral communication skills

· Ability to solve-problems

Cost : £700 for 6 months. We ask all volunteers to make a modest project contribution. This money will be used directly for the Family Sponsorship Programme, to substantiate and improve the Programme during the volunteership period and to enable other activities to support the work which the volunteer will be involved in.

Interested? Contact Fiona on 01793 767820 or fiona@actionchildren.org