{"id":4279,"date":"2018-09-26T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:12:42","slug":"kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/09\/kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s own in-country volunteering program for young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yklcuq-10 hpxQMr\">Kenya has a national volunteer program for its own citizens to help in-country. It&#8217;s called&nbsp;<a class=\"yklcuq-27 iTEubQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.g-united.or.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong class=\"yklcuq-14 gLhJob\">G-United<\/strong><\/a>. Its aims: strengthen education outcomes, promote national cohesion &amp; provide development opportunities for youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yklcuq-10 hpxQMr\">This is a program for Kenya&#8217;s own citizens &#8211; young people &#8211; to be able to take several months devoting themselves full-time to a cause in their own country. It&#8217;s similar to the national service programs &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalservice.gov\/programs\/americorps\/americorps-programs\/americorps-nccc\">AmeriCorps NCCC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalservice.gov\/programs\/americorps\/americorps-programs\/americorps-state-national\">AmeriCorps State and National<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalservice.gov\/programs\/americorps\/americorps-programs\/americorps-vista\">AmeriCorps VISTA<\/a> &#8211; in the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yklcuq-10 hpxQMr\">Do you have a University degree? Are you Kenyan, aged 21-30? Are you passionate about social change? Join the Kenya Ministry of Education in helping to develop the&nbsp;<a class=\"yklcuq-27 iTEubQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/literacy?source=feed_text&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDbQ-tdf6I4lblChPYaTAZGNYCZQ_h4OXLrcgrtFtFP4VZOCkct4PJkJC5aVEvmwou0BPBy_xZtNFd6cD342HR7ol62ecnkqq_aWZxrf9h_v96_GhXGA-njdZbOLD2eSDR58pLzwYqoVoebm3HJHazSfzdeAelJzsd55ZhgnTCWmFynVVvMMw&amp;__tn__=%2ANK-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#literacy<\/a>&nbsp;skills of the next generation of Kenyans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g-united.or.ke\/index.php\/apply\">Apply to volunteer<\/a> with 1,600 other champions of progress, as part of the G-United 2019 cohort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yklcuq-10 hpxQMr\">On Twitter:&nbsp;<a class=\"yklcuq-27 iTEubQ\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G_UnitedKE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@G_UnitedKE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has a national volunteer program for its own citizens to help in-country. It&#8217;s called&nbsp;G-United. Its aims: strengthen education outcomes, promote national cohesion &amp; provide development opportunities for youth. This is a program for Kenya&#8217;s own citizens &#8211; young people &#8211; to be able to take several months devoting themselves full-time to a cause in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[38,1546,1221,1971,1973,1541,1972],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-africa","tag-americorps","tag-kenya","tag-kenyan","tag-local","tag-national-service","tag-vista"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fFJB-kenya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}