About Us
Background
VolunteerFund.org is a volunteer placement and crowdfunding platform. It combines the need to give back to society with the opportunity to experience new cultures and share acquired skills. You have not only the option of volunteering, donating to a worthy cause or travelling but to do all of them at once.
Objectives
- Provide Volunteer placement in urban, rural and coastal projects.
- Create an income generating initiative for urban slum social justice organisations.
- Create citizen-to-citizen relationships between the west and the urban poor in Kenya.
About MIL
Mathare Infotech Lab (MIL) is a community based organisation facilitating the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and community organizing. The idea behind MIL is to provide a nexus between ICT and community development in Mathare. The Internet and ICTs provide tools to reimagine and reshape communities. It is precisely for this reason that MIL strives to facilitate our community to draw from the immense promise that ICTs hold in transforming lives.
About Gibson Maina
Gibson Maina is a 43 year old Kenyan. He was born and raised in Mathare Slum. He is a human rights activist and community organizer. He has a passion for the humanization projects, social movements and freedom struggles. He is a programs manager at Sema Ukweli, he is also the founder of Mathare Infotech Lab, a community based organization working in tech-social solutions in Mathare Slum.
Why us.
Our Values
Live the mission.
It's one thing to aspire to something and quite another to practice what we value. The world we hope to see and exist in can be a reality today. You can help today, you can lift a life today, you can be the change today. Every small act of kindness, every moment of compassion, every effort towards understanding and inclusivity contributes to building the world we envision,
Human connections matter.
We all want to belong. We all want to be part of the group, one with the tribe. At the core of our human-ness lies the most noblest of values, love. Love is infinite, love goes beyond borders, race, religion, cultures and all otherness that humans can think of. Love travels over land and see just to hold hands, to connect.
Own the impact.
How much is my individual actions going to change things? How far can my contribution go to change things, to alleviate human suffering? Perhaps your small donation or short volunteer stint is but a drop in the ocean, when counted on its own. But a forest is not made of one tree, or rain made of one droplet. It is the cumulative action, pooled resources, the collective effort that needs your bit.
See potential in everyone.
How much is my individual actions going to change things? How far can my contribution go to change things, to alleviate human suffering? Perhaps your small donation or short volunteer stint is but a drop in the ocean, when counted on its own. But a forest is not made of one tree, or rain made of one droplet. It is the cumulative action, pooled resources, the collective effort that needs your bit.
Always learning.
Teaching is a two way traffic. The teacher gets to learn even as they teach. There is something to learn as you encounter new travel destinations, new cultures or volunteer opportunities. There is much to share of your accumulated life experiences, education and exposure. And as much as you give, you get to learn and experience and be one with the universe.
