Join the People for Progress Foundation Community!
At the heart of People for Progress Foundation’s operations is a community of diligent, dynamic and diverse volunteers, continuously willing to help and promote the organization’s mandate. Volunteering with PFPF provides individuals with opportunities to connect and socialize, to share their talents, to engage in interesting and challenging work, and to contribute to a greater purpose. We invite you to join our community and discover these benefits for yourself.
We welcome people of all ages and abilities, and are specifically looking for talented people with the following expertise:
Committees
Events
- Event Planning
- Public Speaking
- Program Leadership
- Fund Development
Marketing
- Communications & Content Writing
- Social Media (write posts, answer questions or redirect to board members, respond to comments)
- Photography
- Web Development
Other
- Grant writing
- Support for products once sold on Etsy
Volunteering with PFPF
The benefits of sacrificing your time and resources to help others are as varied as different people who engage in volunteer activities. People say that volunteering has changed them in many ways they never expected. They have learned new skills, made new friends and expanded their hearts, minds and souls by helping people they have never met before. Some volunteers have even ended up landing a job in the organizations for which they volunteered.
I have only been involved with People for Progress Foundation since January of 2021, but it has taught me a lot to appreciate how human kindness can transform other people’s lives. The foundation’s main mission is to empower the less fortunate individuals and communities to achieve sustainability through education, leadership and partnership.
Having grown up in a similar background myself, I can truly relate to how getting such empowerment can transform not only one’s personal life but that of an entire community. Many of the people currently benefiting from the People for Progress Foundation programs are children with little hope of escaping poverty and violence in the impoverished communities that nature has confined them to.
Being from Kenya myself and having gone to school in Nairobi City makes me appreciate even more the work being done in Dandora, a densely populated and impoverished part of the City where many children grow up without much hope for the future and are easily lured into gang related activities as a way of making a living.
By establishing People for Progress Foundation ECD School in Dandora, People for Progress Foundation have created a beacon of hope not only for the young children undertaking early childhood education at the facility but also for their families and the entire community at large.
At the People for Progress Foundation ECD School, originally known locally as Raven Education Centre, each day begins with a health and hygiene sensitization program, where the children are taught proper sanitary habits that have come in handy during the current coronavirus pandemic. Looks like People for Progress Foundation were ahead of everyone as far as washing hands and proper hygiene is concerned!
According to Mahatma Gandhi, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”. I hope to find myself by volunteering for People for Progress Foundation alongside many other people already doing so in this great foundation. To quote from Helen Keller, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”. Volunteering is a great way for people to do so much and make a difference in the world. I am so happy and blessed to be part of this organization that believes in making a difference in the world one small community at a time.
“Where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can”. – President Barack Obama.
Silas Kibwana
Board Member
People for Progress Foundation
