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Working Together for Stronger Communities
Why This Work Matters
Across Kenya and Uganda, many families face the same hard problems. They have no steady work. Their children can't get a full education. Their land is losing its power to grow food. These problems don't stand alone. They feed each other. A family without income can't send a child to school. A community without healthy land struggles to feed itself or earn a living.
These problems matter because they shape whole lives. A child who misses school has fewer choices later. A farmer who loses good land has fewer ways to feed their family. A parent without steady work carries constant worry. If nothing changes, these problems grow. Poverty deepens. Land keeps losing its strength. Fewer children finish school. The cycle continues into the next generation.
Civicom Aid works alongside communities to break that cycle. We don't arrive with ready-made answers. We listen first. We ask people what they need and what they already know. Then we build a plan together and put it into action, side by side.
This is our Theory of Change: real change lasts when the people affected lead the way. When families gain new skills, new income, and new confidence, they don't just survive. They build something that keeps growing, long after our project ends. Women, young people, and people in the poorest settlements are never left out of this work. We build every project with them, not just for them.
The result is stronger communities: children in school, farmers with healthy land, families with steady income, and neighbors working side by side toward a shared future.
Our Current Projects
Pick a project that speaks to you and learn how it works.
Informal Settlement Growth Pathway
Supports SDG Goal 1: No Poverty
Families living in informal settlements often lack steady work, safe housing, and a clear path toward a stable future. Without support, these families stay stuck in poverty, unable to plan ahead or build something better for their children.
This project works directly with these families to open doors to new skills, new income, and new hope. Together, we find the paths that fit each family's strengths and goals.
Community Education Access Pathway
Supports SDG Goal 4: Quality Education
Many children can't get a good education because their schools lack supplies, trained support, or learning materials. Without these basics, children fall behind, and some leave school altogether.
This project brings these missing pieces to classrooms, so every child can learn and grow.
Farmer-Managed Community Restoration
Supports SDG Goal 15: Life on Land
Local farmers depend on healthy land to feed their families and earn a living. When land loses its strength, farmers lose their income and their food source too.
This project teaches farmers how to restore and protect their land, using methods they help choose and lead themselves.
Ready to learn more? Ask us to send you one of these guides:
- Informal Settlement Growth Pathway guide
- Community Education Access Pathway guide
- Farmer-Managed Community Restoration guide
Or join us for a live, online meeting to talk it through
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Volunteer and Intern Opportunities
Below are ways you can make a real, direct difference. Every role is built to support and welcome you. We welcome individuals, families, and groups of all backgrounds.
Become a Civicom Aid Fundraiser
If you love connecting with people and sharing meaningful stories, you can help raise the funds that keep our programs running. Work online, onsite, or both. Choose your own path: host an event, run a crowdfunding campaign, write a grant proposal, or bring your own creative idea.
This role is open to everyone, whether you work onsite, remotely, or both. It can be done fully online, from anywhere in the world.
We support you with easy fundraising guides, photos, videos, and real stories from the field. Invite people to give safely through our website, or build your own campaign your way. We stay closely connected with you through Asana throughout your project.
You do not need any fundraising experience. Every great fundraiser started with a first try. Over time, you'll grow more confident telling stories, connecting with donors, and asking for support. It's completely normal to feel nervous at first. That's why we give you ready-made templates and simple strategies, so you can reach out to donors with confidence from day one.
Why this work matters: The funds you raise turn directly into school supplies, farmer training, and business coaching for the families we serve.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
- A flexible schedule that we'll shape together, based on what works for both sides
We welcome local and international volunteers, students, retirees, families, and groups.
Become a Women Entrepreneurs Coach
Women across local informal settlements run all kinds of small businesses to support their families. As a business coach, you mentor these women using a practical guide built together with the entrepreneurs themselves, on topics they want to learn. You'll meet them at their business sites.
This is an onsite role, and you'll see business growth happen up close. You'll lead weekly group meetings and visit each business in person during the week. These visits let you learn how each business runs, day to day, through real conversation and shared time. Together, you'll work through four stages: starting a business, growing a business, expanding a business, and strengthening a business.
You're never on your own. A Civicom Aid team member gives you a full orientation, clear briefings, and daily support. You'll also study a full training guide before you begin coaching. The women you coach know what problems affect their businesses, and together you'll work through possible solutions.
Why this work matters: A stronger small business means a woman can support her family and build lasting independence, in a settlement where steady income is hard to find.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- Safe, comfortable housing at no cost for your entire stay, if you join us onsite
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
- A flexible schedule that we'll shape together, based on what works for both sides
This role fits people with business skills or experience, at least one year of experience running a business, students in business-related fields, and anyone working in business.
Become a Website Steward
This role fits developers and IT volunteers or students with skills in one or two website platforms. Work fully remotely, onsite in East Africa, or a mix of both. Your schedule is fully flexible, and you can work alone or as a group.
By keeping our website safe, current, and easy to use, you gain hands-on tech experience in the non-profit world, while helping us share community stories with supporters around the globe.
This role can be done fully online, from anywhere in the world.
Why this work matters: A clear, working website helps donors, partners, and volunteers find us, trust us, and take action, which means more support reaching the families who need it.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
- A flexible schedule that we'll shape together, based on what works for both sides
We welcome local and international volunteers, students, retirees, families, and groups.
Become a Civicom Aid Ambassador
As an Ambassador, you represent Civicom Aid in your home country. Your main role is to raise awareness and help gather life-changing tools, like school supplies, laptops, smartphones, or vehicles, for our teams in the field. This role fits any schedule; we'll work with you to build one that suits your life. It's open to everyone, anywhere in the world.
Work alone, or start an Ambassador group in your area. Reach out to donors through social media, email, or conversations with local groups. You don't need marketing experience. Start simple, and watch your network grow over time. Once you sign up, we share full project details and media resources, so you can speak about our mission with confidence.
You will never be asked to pay for project supplies yourself. Your role is simply to gather donations and spread the word.
Why this work matters: Every conversation you start, and every donor you connect with, brings a family one step closer to the tools and support they need.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
- A flexible schedule that we'll shape together, based on what works for both sides
- Fully possible online, from anywhere in the world
We welcome local and international volunteers, students, retirees, families, and groups.
Become a Community Champion
As a Community Champion, you gather life-changing tools for families in Kenya. Choose what you'd like to focus on: school supplies (like notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, toys, bags, and balls), laptops, smartphones, or a vehicle.
This role is open to everyone, whether you work onsite, remotely, or both. It can be done fully online, from anywhere in the world.
We keep the process simple. Once you collect donated items, we ship them to Kenya through generous travelers with extra luggage space, or through airline partners. To get started, just organize a donation drive at your school, church, workplace, business, or in your own neighborhood. Share your request through social media, email, or word of mouth. Once your donations arrive in Kenya, we send you photos and videos, so you can see the difference you made.
You never need storage space, and you never need to cover any costs yourself. We stay closely connected with you through Asana, our project management tool, every step of the way.
No donation is too small. What feels like a small item to you can completely change someone's life. And when you share your drive with friends, family, and neighbors, and they share it with their own networks, your impact grows far beyond what you might expect.
Why this work matters: Every notebook, laptop, and bag you gather removes one more barrier between a child and their education, or a family and a better future.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
- A flexible schedule that we'll shape together, based on what works for both sides
We welcome local and international volunteers, students, retirees, families, and groups.
Become an Assistant Teacher
This role is a great fit for qualified teachers, education or early-childhood students, retired educators, classroom assistants, or anyone who loves music, art, sports, STEM, farming, or digital tools. English is the language of instruction in both Kenya and Uganda. If you'll be teaching, you need to be fluent in reading, speaking, and writing English. If you'll be helping with music, art, sports, or practical farming, you only need basic English skills, enough to support classes and build visual learning materials.
Choose the age group that fits you best:
- Pre-Primary (PP1 and PP2): ages 4 to 5
- Lower Primary (Grades 1 to 3): ages 6 to 8
- Upper Primary (Grades 4 to 6): ages 9 to 11
- Junior School (Grades 7 to 9): ages 12 to 14
You'll help with up to two subjects. Before you arrive, we send you the national curriculum, and the local classroom teacher works with you to prepare a scheme of work and lesson plans, so you always feel ready. You'll first observe the lead subject teacher, to understand their teaching methods and compare them with your own. You can observe once or twice before you start.
It's normal to feel nervous at first. The lead subject teacher stays in the room with you to guide the class and support you. We send curriculum materials well ahead of time, and local teachers walk you through their lesson plans, step by step.
As long as you can communicate clearly, your help matters. You can make a real difference just by helping children practice pronunciation, draw, or use learning materials.
Why this work matters: A classroom with enough support and materials helps every child stay engaged and keep learning, closing gaps that would otherwise follow them for years.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- Safe, comfortable housing at no cost for your entire stay, if you join us onsite
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
- A flexible schedule that we'll shape together, based on what works for both sides
We welcome local and international volunteers, students, retirees, families, and groups.
Become a Family Farmer Coach
As a Family Farmer Coach, you work directly with a hub of at least ten local family farmers in Kenya or Uganda. You might teach regenerative farming, natural land restoration, water-saving earth bunds, organic manure use, or the Plantix app for spotting crop problems. A guide built by the farmers themselves walks you through every topic they want to learn.
Language will never hold you back. While farmers speak their local languages, at least one member of your group will speak fluent English and act as your daily guide and translator. If you can speak basic English, you can teach well.
You do not need to arrive with all the answers. Local farmers already know their biggest challenges, and we've gathered detailed guides on exactly what they want to learn. Come with an open mind. Lean on the trainer's guide, on conversations with farmers, and on your own observation, both to learn and to help enrich the guide for future coaches. Teaching here means discussing ideas, sharing experience, and choosing good methods together.
Training these farmers is deeply rewarding. Because they're eager to protect their land and their livelihoods, they bring focus and energy to every lesson. You don't need to change everything at once. Small, steady progress with one farmer at a time adds up to real, lasting change.
Why this work matters: Healthy land means steady food and steady income for a farming family, now and for the next generation.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- Safe, comfortable housing at no cost for your entire stay, if you join us onsite
- An official Certificate of Recognition or a reference letter, if you'd like one — just ask us during your online meeting
- No age limit and no experience needed; your mentor and guide will support you
- A good fit for students seeking university credit or internship hours
This is an onsite role, based in remote rural villages in Kenya or Uganda. We welcome local and international agronomists, students in farming-related fields, retirees with farming skills, experienced farmers, and anyone who works on a farm. You can join alone, as a group, or as a family.
Become a Civicom Aid Partner
We welcome partnerships with businesses, universities, schools, foundations, non-profits, community groups, government agencies, faith-based groups, technology companies, and individuals or families who want to help.
How partnerships work:
Reach out to our team and tell us about your organization and your interests, then ask for our Partner guide. We'll set up a meeting to talk through shared goals and design a plan together. Rather than simply asking you to fund an existing program, we prefer to build something new with you, or improve on what already exists, so it meets both of our goals.
Before any work begins, we sign a clear agreement together that sets out each partner's role. Every dollar you give goes directly to your chosen project. We hold ourselves to strict, open accounting practices. An independent auditor reviews our income and spending, and reports to the Kenyan government.
Together, we set clear goals and clear ways to measure progress. We send you regular updates, data, stories, photos, and videos, so you can see the real difference your support makes. Because Civicom Aid is officially registered as a Public Benefit Organization in Kenya, your donations are tax-deductible.
We track real, visible results in the field and share regular progress reports. With the permission of local participants, we also welcome partners to visit project sites, see the work firsthand, and meet the people you support.
We love celebrating our partners. We can feature your logo on project materials, our website, and our reports, and we welcome joint announcements to mark our shared wins. We also provide photos, videos, and stories your team can share with your own audience.
Civicom Aid is built on one belief: real change lasts when it's led by the people who live it. That's why we focus on practical, hands-on work, designed and owned by local communities, so the progress we build together keeps growing long after our project ends.
Why this work matters: Your partnership turns into real, measured progress on the ground, tracked openly and shared with you every step of the way.
What you can expect:
- A mentor from day one, plus a guide after your first online meeting
- Safe, comfortable housing at no cost for your entire stay, if you join us onsite
- Full flexibility: online, onsite, or both, from anywhere in the world
CIVICOM AID Equipping vulnerable communities in Kenya and Uganda with access to education, sustainable agriculture, and income-generating opportunities.
Email: info@civicom.org
Call/WhatsApp: +254 797 946 000