Homestay with Nixon and family

Hello! My name is Nixon and would love to invite you to stay with me and my family for a while, in my family home in Homa Bay, Kenya. I have a wonderful wife and three amazing children. My daughters are 17 and 12 years old and my son is 7. For the past 20 years I have persevered through times of struggle to support the local community. My home is very modest, but can welcome 3 volunteers at the time. We welcome any type of skill, from helping me building my home, to fundraising to help commuty projects, to going out to town to assist teachers in the local schools. Your help, will be of great impact in the progress of our community. Every little help really makes a difference here, you'd be surprised of the impact you can make! We ask a small fee from our volunteers which I use to buy essential items for our house and for the people of the local community, so that everyone is looked after and no one feels cut out from the benefit of welcoming volunteers like you! You'll be able to see this with your own eyes once you're here with me. To put my words into context, if you only stayed one week and paid me a total of 4707.5 ks (equivalent to 34.87 US Dollars) I can feed and provide for our family (including you) and I can also help with home essentials and food for our neighbours. Our community suffers from the combined pressures of climate change, an inefficient medical system, underfunded education system and poor waste and sanitation infrastructure. There are many different projects we are hoping to implement as soon as we are able to raise funds to support them. This is why we also ask help with fundraising for an organisation that worked incredibly well and I would love to start up again. In 2004, I started an organisation with the mission to create and promote opportunities for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our community. Our first initiative was a tailoring project run by my wife, which proved to be an empowering and successful income-generating opportunity for these women. Through participation in the tailoring project, the women were able to earn a stable income and provide for themselves and their children. From parts of their profits, we can finance new projects and trainings to have a continuous growth and increase the number of people we support, including school fees, which are rising in Kenya. Education means growth, but with no money for fees, means children lack the basic right of having an opportunity. We have partnered with peer counsellors with the aim to deliver outreach mentorship to youth groups and local educational institutions. Another partnership has been made with the local community clinic which offers courses about female hygiene, distributes reusable pads and informs about precautions for early pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has a significant socio-economic impact. Our partners at the community clinic, situated in the slum of Homa Bay, offer testing and treatment for free in the community. We assist in terms of awareness campaigns and counselling. Everything has worked well, until in 2019 a building fire tore through the centre of downtown Homabay, destroying the town market, stores, and shops, including the site of the tailoring project. All was lost. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the snowball effect was devastating: No money coming from the tailoring project means there is no possibility to help with the rest of the projects we partnered with. Bringing me and the rest of the community back to square 0. It's with great courage that out of the ashes of the previous project I am now trying to start a new organisation: Community Growth Network. The place strongly seeks to revive the tailoring project but for now it struggles to obtain sufficient funding to purchase the necessary equipment. Here is why we need you! What we ask from our volunteers is to really feel into the great opportunities that their presence and support can provide to t…