The Happy Me Happy You Children Project is a community-based volunteer and social impact initiative running in Kenya. It operates under the broader Happy Me Happy You Community-Based Organization (CBO), which was founded in August 2020 by Elvis Ingadi to address mental wellness, youth mentorship, and socio-economic resilience within vulnerable Kenyan communities. The core initiatives of Happy me Happ you CBO
• Mental Health & Wellness Programs: This initiative focuses on raising public awareness, delivering counseling support, and facilitating emotional resilience training to create psychologically healthy communities
• Women Empowerment & Training: The organization provides quality education, entrepreneurship workshops, and hands-on skills training—particularly in technology, renewable energy, and vocational trades—to help women achieve financial independence.
• Youth Leadership & Personal Development: This program delivers career guidance, life skills coaching, and dedicated mentorship pathways to help young people unlock their full potential.
• Livelihood & Community Empowerment: Driven by grassroots action, this initiative coordinates community capacity-building, social support networks, and microfinance options to break regional cycles of poverty.
• Community Outreach & Sustainable Agriculture: Managed alongside international volunteer initiatives like the Children Project, this core effort coordinates local infrastructure maintenance, early childhood education support, and community farming projects (including crop cultivation and environmental tree planting
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Volunteers and staff deployed to the project engage in a wide mix of community support and hands-on structural development tasks:
• Early Childhood Education: Assisting nursery school teachers by teaching foundational subjects such as English, Basic Mathematics, and Creative Arts, as well as helping children complete their homework
• Project Maintenance: Engaging in physical labor to improve the local environment, including landscaping, bush clearing, litter collection, constructing disposal sites, sweeping, brick-making, and structural repairs
• Health & Mentorship: Running youth mentorship programs and health education workshops alongside local staff to support mental wellness and personal growth
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During the volunteer placement at the Happy Me Happy You Children Project, volunteers stay in a shared volunteer house provided by the host community. The living conditions are immersive and communal, designed to give an authentic experience of local Kenyan life
It is important that you have your own sleeping mat, mosquito net and a sleeping bag. This area is sometimes muddy therefore it's important to have working boots. During the workcamp, volunteers will get food from locally available foodstuffs and will share the responsibility of preparing the food.
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Evenings and weekends during the Happy Me Happy You Children Project are free for relaxation, cultural immersion, and regional travel.
In this workcamp, volunteers will have a chance to do evening nature walks, home visits, cultural meetings, and games. During weekends, volunteers can visit Lake Victoria, Kisumu Museum, the Crying Stone, the equator line, and a general tour in Kisumu city. Volunteers will also have the opportunity for an early morning visit to Kakamega Rainforest, hike on the forest hill and witness a sunrise from the forest hill. Leisure activities’ costs are not included in the participation fee.