Serving your neighbors around the world!
Check out the current international mission trips offered in the Sub-Saharan Africa region below. Each of these projects is ongoing and receives volunteer teams year-round.
Each is an opportunity to meet a need and change a life!
In addition to these trips, our international partners sometimes request volunteers with specific skill sets to help with particular projects. You can register your interest in a particular trip or indicate skills by filling out the interest form with your church information, desired destination, time preferences and volunteer information. Someone on our team will follow up with you soon.
We look forward to exploring more international opportunities with you!
Serve with Send Relief in…
Nairobi, Kenya
This experience will serve as a vision trip for church leaders or professionals seeking to partner long-term with our team in Nairobi. There will be a specialized tour for leaders to visit project sites that may include medical, sustainable farming, industrial, mechanical, clean water, feeding and temporary shelter facets.
- Requirements: 18+ years. Must be church leaders, professionals and/or partners.
- Language: Translators provided upon request.
- Team size: 2-4 adults (18+)
- Trip length: 1 week
- Cost: TBD based on participants’ interests. The final cost does not include airfare, insurance, fees, COVID testing, vaccinations or quarantine requirements.
Kiambu County, Kenya
Partner with local schools serving special needs students living with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, speech and learning disorders and other challenges.
You may work with teachers to provide activities covering hygiene and grooming, life skills, arts and crafts and vocational skills in classrooms, dorms or farms depending on the class’s specific needs. Teachers are often in need of learning resources and recreational workshops that your team will be encouraged to help host. Teams may also be asked to help with environmental improvements, one-on-one tutoring, the purchase of school supplies and sports materials, as well as daily chores such as cooking, cleaning and hosting music programs or Bible camps.
- Requirements: 18+ years
- Language: Swahili is the national language, but English is understood by most locals.
- Team size: 2-10 adults (18+)
- Trip length: 1 week
- Cost: $200/person per day. The final cost does not include airfare, insurance, fees, COVID testing, vaccinations or quarantine requirements.
South Africa
This opportunity will serve as a vision trip for church leaders or professionals seeking to partner long-term with Send Relief in South Africa. There will be a specialized tour for leaders to visit project sites that may include medical, sustainable farming, industrial, mechanical, clean water, feeding and temporary shelter aspects.
- Requirements: 18+ years. Must be church leaders, professionals and/or partners.
- Language: Translators provided if needed.
- Team size: 2-4 adults (18+)
- Trip length: 1 week
- Cost: TBD based on participants’ interests. The final cost does not include airfare, insurance, fees, COVID testing, vaccinations or quarantine requirements.
Naivasha, Kenya
Naivasha Child Protection Unit
The objective of the unit is to provide a safe space for children in conflict and in contact with the law.
The unit comes at a time where cases of child exploitation and abuse have been increasing at an alarming rate in Kenya.
In addition to rescue services, the unit will also offer protection services including individual assessment, counseling, psychosocial support, tracing, reintegration, and family reunion.
Children in Kenya have become more vulnerable to child abuse since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic according to a study by the African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN).
The unit is in line with the fulfillment of the Kenyan child protection policy which dictates that each police station has a protection unit for children
- Max team Size: 6
- Cost: Approx. $160/person/day (depends on team size)