Community Hospital Support

Volunteers provide a support service to individuals and their caregivers by assisting with meals, providing spiritual/emotional encouragement to clients and their  family, recreational support, respite care and basic assistance with daily activities. If you have an interest in the healthc are industry, you can volunteer at local hospitals, hospice, rehabilitation centre, clinic and long term/palliative care facility. Many hospitals and residential care units involve volunteers in a variety of  roles.

Volunteers can:

• Visit and befriend patients and/or residents.
• Help in hospital shops.
• Provide trolley, treatment and library services. 
• Help with social activities.
• Help or assist with individuals or groups dealing with specific conditions such as arthritis, cancer, or epilepsy or fistula,  TB, HIV/AIDS e.t.c.
• Language interpretation, patient advocacy or counseling.
• Involve a search/rescue or reassuring those who have undergone a stressful/traumatic experience

During the weekend, volunteer have spare time and usually just relax or take the opportunity to explore other parts of their local town, join and participate in local games/sports, recreational facilities; visit friends, Tourist sites in Kenya and Eastern Africa. Long weekends can be taken to travel further afield (i.e. Nairobi, Mombasa, Uganda or Tanzania) or to embark on a safari. If a volunteer wish to volunteer over the weekends they can join local teams and visit other orphanages (or other children helping organizations) to spend time simply playing with and entertaining the children and or participating in social and cultural activities/ games.