• $5000 will provide food & coffee for one year to 10,000 homeless individuals
  • $3500 will send one individual to a full term of the Ve’ahavta Street Academy
  • $1000 will provide dinner for 150 homeless guests at the Ve’ahavta Passover Seder
  • $500 will provide notebooks to 350 children for one year
  • $250 will sponsor one prize to a winner of the Creative Writing Contest for the homeless
  • $100 will provide coffee for one week to 250 homeless individuals
  • $18 will give one child school supplies for one year
1-877-582-5472

Kinder Kits Project

Israel, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda

Seeking: Volunteers aged 18+ with cross-cultural experience and/or a vested personal interest in the country of origin. Volunteers must be team players, able to work under supervision, have flexibility to depart within 2 weeks of the tentative departure date, have preparedness and resilience of character to handle the pressures of working in a different culture with a foreign set of cultural/professional codes of conduct.

Program Period: Two-week placements

Time Commitment:  Two weeks

Tentative Session Dates: Summer, 2011

Program Cost: $3000 CAD (Tax Deductable). Cost includes flight, accommodations, 2 meals/day (breakfast & dinner), local transport, and training/orientation.

Program Purpose: Spend two weeks in Israel, South Africa, Kenya or Uganda assisting with the distribution of Ve’ahavta’s Kinder Kits and providing volunteer support to our partner organization in the host country. Volunteers will be accommodated in local homestays.

Program Description

The Kinder Kits program aims to provide educational supplies to underprivileged children. Without the proper tools to learn, a child’s success is dramatically decreased. 150,000,000 children around the world leave school illiterate and 1 in 6 children live in poverty in Canada. Ve’ahavta has committed to providing Kinder Education Kits containing the necessary supplies for a child’s academic year to impoverished communities around the world through our local and international partners. Ve’ahavta has up to 5 subsidized volunteer spots, including 1 site coordinator, available to assist our partner organization on the ground 5 days a week.

Desired Experience

  • Ability to work well as part of a team
  • Responsible, positive, flexible and dedicated
  • Cross – Cultural exposure
  • Ability to work well under supervision
  • Experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds
  • Comfort in different or difficult cultural/socioeconomic environments
  • Flexibility in departure/arrival dates
  • Interest in travelling and learning about different cultures and peoples
  • Preparedness and resilience of character to handle pressures of working in different cultures with a foreign set of cultural/professional codes of conduct
  • Previous volunteer experience with Ve’ahavta an asset (though not a requirement)
  • Experience working within host country an asset (though not a requirement)

Ve’ahavta will provide logistical support, pre-departure training, assistance with travel, full orientation and supervision in the field.

All applicants must complete a volunteer application form, which includes a CV, two letters of reference, a personal statement, and a deposit fee of $500 (fee is non refundable upon your acceptance). All applicants must attend an in-person interview. For further inquiries, or to receive an application form, please contact:

Tessa Wookey
Volunteer Manager
(416) 964-7698 ext. 216
Fax: (416) 964-6582
volunteerinfo@veahavta.org