1.1 What is the Kenya Xperience Center?
The Kenya xperience center aims to promote national and international involvement and volunteerism through sharing of skills and experiences by connecting local and other global citizens with welfare and development projects in order to assist communities in Kenya. We are based in an office in Kilifi town, Coast Province. The majority of the projects the center works with are located in the Kenyan North Coast.
Contact us on kenia@joho.nl



The Kenya center facilitates the following organizations:

• JoHo World Supporter
• Wanawa Foundation
• JoHo Insurance

JoHo World Supporter
JoHo is an (inter-)national non profit organization with the goal to set up as many support centers as possible, dealing with work, travel and international cooperation. The main focuses of the organization are passing on knowledge, promoting international contacts and awareness and giving advice.
www.joho.org

Wanawa Foundation
Wanawa is an organisation that assists locally based organizations in Kenya to empower women and children. They assist by finding volunteers, cultural exchange students and interns that fit with the needs in Kenya and they assist with financial and material needs of the projects in Kenya. The organization has a unique way of helping projects to survive on its own.
www.wanawa.nl (Dutch)

JoHo Insurances
JoHo is one of the few organizations that believes you should be able to choose from a range of advantageous and also more specialised insurances. It offers insurances for all individuals and groups going abroad, no matter where they are from.
www.insureyourwayaroundtheworld.com
www.verzekeringeninhetbuitenland.nl (Dutch)


1.2. For whom is the Kenya support center?
The Kenya xperience center is for international global citizens, for Kenyan global citizens and for communities in Kenya.

For international global citizens
The Kenya xperience center welcomes all kind of international global citizens that want share their skills and learn from Kenyans in return

• Global citizens who want to volunteer from a few weeks to a few months.
• Trainees, students, international cultural exchangers/vrijwilligers
• People who want to be involved, but don’t know how, yet
• People who want to start or support a project or companies that want to do cooperate social responsibility activities.
• Tourist who are passing by

What we can do?

For Kenyan global citizens
Kenyan volunteers, graduates and professionals are also invited to share their skills and experiences with the community

• Kenyan youth who are eager to support their communities
• Kenyan students or graduates who want to get working experience
• Professionals and companies who want to share their skills and experiences with the community and who want to mentor graduates in order to develop their professional skills.

What we can do?

For communities in Kenya
But most of all is the Kenya Experience center for the communities that need skills, enthusiasm and assistance in the development of community projects. And we can work together to make things happen!
What we can do?

1.3 What the Kenya Experience center does

For international global citizens such as cultural exchangers / vrijwilligers

• We promote that you share your skills and enthusiasm
• We recruit cultural exchangers, like you, give you information to help you make a decision and to prepare you for your skill sharing experience in a community project
• We will facilitate your process of skill sharing
• We will brief you on your project through this website, answering all your questions, briefing you in Kilifi and introduce you at your project.
• You will start you Kenyan experience with an introduction day to make you familiair with some cultural aspects and to tach you the first beginnings of Kiswahili
• We will provide assistance and advice if needed
• We will mediate when you need assistance
• We will evaluate your placement and appreciate your feedback
• We aim to promote understanding and shared learning between you and other global and/or Kenyan citizens
• We aim to facilitate access to Internet facilities such as Worldstudybank, Nabuur, Wikipedia, Facebooks, news sites etc in the Kilifi office
• We create opportunities for you to meet international cultural exchangers and other visitors
• We organize discussion meetings between you, international cultural exchangers and professionals as well as informal meetings, weekend trips and cultural excursions
• We’re developing a resource centre for development cooperation and community development where you can make use of

We represent JoHo / Wanawa / Wereldsupporter

• We will provide information advise, practical assistance about Kenyan culture, nature, society and laws
• We will provide information and recommendations about health and safety
• We promote sustainable and responsible tourism in Kilifi district
• We can give you information about educational, sustainable and responsible tourism opportunities

projects

For Kenyan global citizens

• We promote that you share your skills and enthusiasm
• We recruit Kenyan global citizens, like you, give you information to help you make a decision and to prepare you for your skill sharing experience in a community project
• We will facilitate your process of skill sharing
• We will brief you on your project through this website, answering all your questions, briefing you in Kilifi and introduce you at your project.
• We will provide assistance and advice if needed
• We will mediate when you need assistance
• We will evaluate your placement and appreciate your feedback
• We want to provide opportunities for students and graduates in order to help you to gain working experience as professionals
• To match you with placements in community projects that will help the community in their project and will help you to increase your chances to find a job
• To provide testimonials/certificates after a successful placement
• To promote understanding and shared learning among Kenyan and other global citizens
• Promote and facilitate access to Internet facilities such as Worldstudybank, Nabuur, Wikipedia, Facebooks, news sites etc in the Kilifi office
• Promote networking by bringing you, cultural exchangers and other visitors together
• We organize regular discussion meetings between you, cultural exchangers, other volunteers and professionals as well as informal meetings, weekend trips, cultural excursions
• We’re developing a resource centre for development cooperation and community development where you can make use of

For the communities

• We promote skill sharing and mutual learning
• We assist you, members of community projects, to identify your needs for skills assistance
• We recruit cultural exchangers and Kenyan volunteers and will make sure that they’re well prepared and informed to share their skills and learn from you
• We facilitate the process of capacity building of your organisations/groups
• We will provide assistance and advice if needed
• We will mediate when needed
• We will evaluate the input and impact of the volunteer on the development of your project and your input in the cultural exchangers’ process to learn from you.
• We aim to promote understanding and shared learning between Kenyan and other global citizens
• We promote and facilitate access to Internet facilities such as Worldstudybank, Nabuur, Wikipedia, Facebooks, news sites, online fundraising etc in the Kilifi office
• We organise regular discussion meetings between volunteers and professionals, informal meetings, weekend trips, cultural excursions
• We’re developing a resource centre for development cooperation and community development that you can use

To promote sustainable and responsible tourism in Kilifi district among our target groups

• We want to give you, as a community, opportunities to contribute to and benefit from educational, sustainable and responsible tourism

Other facilities the Kenya Experience center will offer are:

• Exhibition facilities for local products
• Facilitation of linkages with (international) market for local producers