Fieldwork Volunteer

Get in touch with us if you would like to volunteer and participate in ouroutreach programmes and offer help to the children and their families in their homes.

Student Placement

If you are a student and you would like to do your placement withDPA, kindlycontact us. These opportunities for students are limited.

Fundraise for us:

Host a morning tea for parents and students – invite us to come and speak.
Organise a school mini-fete.
Arrange a coin trail – which class has the longest trail?
Organise a coin collection – which class can collect the most 5c, 10c, $1 coins – you choose the value of the coin and watch the jars fill!
Have a cupcake day or sausage sizzle next to a busy supermarket.
Organise for bike ride fundraiser
Hold a fundraiser dinner for us and we can come and do a short presentation about DPA
Request a speakerand invite us to come and speak
We also love visiting schools that want to support DPA children, so please contact us to set up a date for a speaker.

Fundraise for us through Climbing Mount Kenya or Mount Kilimanjaro

Join Douglas Sidialo, a DPA board member in Kenya and the first blind person in Africa to climb Mount Kenya in May, 2003 and reached Point Lenana (4,895 Meters altitude) and in September 2005 he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and reached Uhuru Peak (5,895 meters). Douglas lost his eyesight as a result of the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998.

THE ALL-ODDS August 7, 1998 had been an ordinary Friday morning. Douglas, who was a motorbike salesman at the time, was heading to work. He heard a commotion outside the US embassy in Nairobi where the guards seemed to be in disagreement. “I spotted a truck heading to the gate of the embassy and the guards came out and refused to let it in. We heard a few loud bangs which I thought were gunshots but later learnt were grenades going off.”

Douglas remembers hearing an extremely loud explosion moments later and was roughly thrown to the ground by the impact. Through the commotion, he was lucky enough to be rescued by a Good Samaritan and taken to hospital. He woke up at the hospital with bandages wrapped around his head. He could not see a thing. He was blind.

DOUGLAS SIDIALO : click here

Mission Trip to Kenya with a Difference / Plan for a Holiday

You can travel to Kenya and spendsome days visiting and supportingDPA children in their homes and thereafter visit one of the best touristic places on planet earth, the Maasai Mara National Reserve. We can organise for a 3-day visit to Maasai Mara where you will meet and dance with Maasai indigenous people and see “the big five” animals in their natural environment. These are the Lions, Rhinoceros, Elephants, Leopards, Cape Buffalos and many other beautiful animals such as Giraffes & Zebras.