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Coding

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Coding

We are primarily looking for (freelance, ideally) web developers, both with WordPress but also React, Typescript, Node, etc. backgrounds. We can also need system and network administrators and database specialists.
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PM, Sales, Business

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PM, Sales, Business

To support our lions and our Fair Trade creative agency, we are always looking for some business support, ideally with project management or sales background from a creative agency or similar.
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Design

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Design

We are looking for creative and experienced graphic designers from all fields, well versed with most of the Adobe Suite. We teach everything from cropping backgrounds and retouching images to layout and logo development. Freelancers particularly welcome.
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Construction & Maintenance

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Construction & Maintenance

For our campus construction (with Kere Architecture), recycling and maintenance teams, we can need (civil) engineers, architects, but also skilled workers and handy(wo)men from many other professions.
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Animation

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Animation

Working with Blender and Adobe After Effects, students learn storyboarding, inspirational sketching, and character and background design in 2D and 3D. Freelancers particularly welcome.
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... and more

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... and more

You bring substantial work experience and a skillset not listed here but are passionate about what we do? We probably need your help as well. Just reach out.
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Animation

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Animation

Working with Blender and Adobe After Effects, students learn storyboarding, inspirational sketching, and character and background design in 2D and 3D. Freelancers particularly welcome.
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... and more

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... and more

You bring substantial work experience and a skillset not listed here but are passionate about what we do? We probably need your help as well. Just reach out.

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experience

gain a lifetime experience

Spend between two and six months in one of the most remote areas of Eastern Africa mentoring a team of young adults on their way to become entrepreneurs on the global digital market. You will build relationships with bright African minds and enable them to have a successful career without having to leave their home region. You will live with us in our ICT Centre at Lake Turkana near Lodwar, Kenya. For more information about the volunteer program, you can also refer to this PDF.

volunteer on-site

Join our team on-site for 2-6 months in one of the most remote areas of East Africa mentoring young tech and design talents on their way to becoming digital professionals, freelancers and entrepreneurs. Build up relationships with bright African minds, and enable them to have a successful career, without having to leave their home region. It will be a life-changing experience!

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Full-time Volunteer

Join us as a full-time volunteer on-site and help the Lions develop this project further! As a full-time volunteer, you will get full board and lodging provided. The ICT Campus provides you with pretty much everything you need: a place to sleep, work space, all meals included, and options for leisure activities.

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Part-time Volunteer

Join us as a part-time volunteer and divide your time between volunteering for the Lions and your own work! You will dedicate 50% of a normal work week to participate in growing the Lions’ various projects and the rest of the time to your own work. As a part-time volunteer, you will pay a fee of 250 euro/month for room and board on-site.

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Don’t want to volunteer, but still want to join the experience? Become a digital nomad on campus and merge remote working with social impact! Interested in more information and would like to learn more about our Digital Nomads program, please visit our page at Startup Lions.

what our volunteer says

why volunteer for learning lions?

GoVolunteer Excellent volunteering Award

Top-Rated Volunteer Opportunity on Volunteer World

Among Escape the Cities "Top 100 organisations to escape to"

life on-site

As a volunteer, you live and work on the ICT Campus, in Central Turkana at the shore of Lake Turkana. You have your own bedroom, sharing kitchen and bathroom with other volunteers. The ICT Campus provides you with pretty much everything you need: a place to sleep, work space, a cafeteria, an eco-supermarket, an outside gym, and options for leisure activities. Despite high temperatures you can stay focused and watch a rural area flourish. The ICT campus is a community of motivated people who all take their part in driving our mission. Students, trainers, volunteers, staff, management, and locals are living together in an enriching and multicultural environment. Lake-view is guaranteed from every angle of the campus and the sun rising over the lake in the morning is the perfect source of inspiration for a creative day of work.

volunteer remotely

Currently, we can offer the following remote volunteering opportunities:

  • Remote Mentoring Program facilitated via professional mentoring platform
  • Curriculum/ Training Material Development (particularly web development, app development, but also animation, design and other subjects)
  • Communication, Fundraising or Outreach Support

Remote volunteers who have worked many hours for Learning Lions and/or Digital Lions remotely can come on-site as part-time volunteers free of charge if their volunteering hours on-site are compensated by their hours done in the past remotely.

ELIZABETH OKUMO

Sales and Marketting Associate, Digital Lions

  Through Learning Lions I have created a big network with people locally and internationally. I am proud of the progress I have made professionally and growing through the experience. Without Learning Lions, I wouldn’t have gotten a chance to further learn something and make a difference.
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