DAGO365 · EXPLORE LEARNING JOURNEYS
Explore volunteer and learning opportunities.
These journeys can be volunteer opportunities, too. Individuals, university teams, professional groups and community organizations may express interest in ethical, skills-based volunteering, service-learning, or simply learning alongside local hosts. When appropriate, each journey can include agreed volunteer activities matched to community priorities, visitor skills, partner consent and safeguarding requirements. Submitting an inquiry is not a confirmed volunteer placement.
Important program boundaries: Women’s Microfinance and the proposed Village Banking entries below are learning concepts only, not opportunities to handle member deposits, loans, private financial records or to establish a new group. Village Banking has not rolled out. Any future learning exchange requires the women’s and local program leaders’ agreement. The medical and sports camp is a historical theme, not a clinical volunteer placement or confirmed 2027 service.
The approved Dago365 calendar pairs 26 dates and learning themes, including two optional January 2028 dates. Browse the themes below or choose a date on the calendar. Individual visits and activity arrangements are organized with local hosts and the relevant program owners.
What “26” means: the approved Dago365 calendar contains 26 date-and-learning-theme combinations: 24 in 2027 and two optional January 2028 dates. These are not 26 independently operating community programs or 26 automatically reserved visitor places. Some themes repeat (including journeys 11 and 16). The standard 2027 program is two weeks. Program cost is shared in an individual written offer. Each visitor receives a written offer confirming their place, itinerary, accommodation, any separately arranged partner activities, inclusions and payment terms before booking.
Program guide: Explore the learning themes
Use this guide to understand learning themes that recur across the approved Dago365 calendar. An approved calendar theme does not automatically mean that every associated project is operating, that a partner-led site is open to visitors, or that a specific hands-on activity is included. Your individual itinerary specifies the hosts, learning format and any supervised participation.
Clean energy & fuel-efficient stoves
This approved Dago365 learning theme examines household cooking energy, fuel use and environmental wellbeing. It does not, by itself, announce an operating stove-distribution project or guarantee an installation, workshop or technical placement. Your written itinerary identifies the relevant hosts and any hands-on demonstration.
Dago community food systems & agro-enterprise
Approved agriculture learning themes connect to ongoing Dago community food production, including greenhouse and vegetable production, dairy, poultry, goat rearing and community gardens and crop trials. Community leaders guide each activity. The calendar approves the learning theme; the individual visit itinerary specifies any farm visits, practical work, hosts and seasonal arrangements.
Beekeeping
The approved beekeeping theme connects agriculture, livelihoods and ecosystem learning. Visiting an apiary or joining a demonstration requires trained hosts, safe conditions and seasonal suitability; your individual itinerary will specify what is included. Read the Dago beekeeping project’s documented history and current reporting status →
Older adults & disability inclusion
Explore inclusive community development and everyday dignity as an approved learning theme. This is not an offer of unsupervised caregiving. Any direct interaction requires informed consent, accessible arrangements and agreed host supervision.
Urban forestry & tree planting
Explore environmental stewardship, tree-growing and the relationship between local livelihoods and healthy places. An urban forestry project outside Dago is not automatically included in a Dago visit; any separate site, partner, timing and transport arrangements will appear in the written itinerary.
Women’s microfinance & village banking education
The calendar includes approved learning themes about women’s savings, enterprise and the design of community-led village banking. The village banking initiative has not launched. Visitors do not handle members’ deposits, loans, account records or financial decisions. Learn about the separate program-development work through the links below.
Learn more: Women’s Microfinance and Village Banking — program development.
Tailoring & Threads of Hope
Threads of Hope is led by One Way Out. The approved Dago365 calendar includes learning about tailoring and women’s livelihoods, but participation in the partner-led program is agreed separately with its leaders and the local women involved. A Dago365 booking does not grant independent access to its classes or participants.
Learn more about One Way Out-led Threads of Hope →
Choose an approved calendar date and explore its program cards →
Explore the 26 approved journey pairings
Prefer to browse by availability window? View the 2027 volunteer and learning calendar by month → The approved calendar dates are shown beside each matching team and journey number.
Open a learning area below to see the approved date-and-theme pairings. The team numbers identify calendar entries, not rankings or individually reserved places. See the approved dates and choose your window →
Learning and education (4 concepts)
Themes rooted in learning, school support, and youth development; school or child-facing participation requires specific institutional permission and safeguarding.
01 · Early childhood learning + environmental stewardship
Explore early learning and locally approved environmental education or forestry work.
06 · Primary education + water access
Learn about school priorities and community-led water-access planning or stewardship.
13 · Primary education + urban forestry
Connect education with environmental learning; Nairobi forestry, if relevant, requires its own site and partner arrangements.
20 · Primary education + youth mentorship
Explore education pathways and appropriately supervised youth-leadership exchange.
Nutrition, agriculture and environment (6 concepts)
Community food systems, livelihoods and environmental stewardship, subject to the season and the partners responsible for each activity.
04 · Feeding program + agro-enterprise
Learn about local food security, agriculture, and the connections between nutrition and education.
05 · Beekeeping + urban greening
Explore beekeeping and environmental stewardship; urban greening beyond Dago requires separate partner and travel approval.
09 · Feeding program + tree planting
Consider the links between nutrition, climate resilience, and locally guided tree stewardship.
12 · Beekeeping + sanitation
Learn about farm livelihoods and the importance of safe sanitation through host-approved visits.
18 · Clean energy + agro-enterprise
Explore household energy, climate-resilient farming, and practical local enterprises.
22 · Tree planting + clean energy
Consider environmental stewardship alongside household energy needs and local technical solutions.
Women’s economic empowerment and livelihoods (11 concepts)
Women’s economic leadership, saving groups, tailoring and learning across other community priorities. Dago Threads of Hope is led by One Way Out; participation requires its approval.
02 · Threads of Hope learning + clean energy
Explore One Way Out-led tailoring and women’s livelihoods alongside locally led energy initiatives.
03 · Women’s microfinance + youth mentorship
Learn about community savings, enterprise, and approved intergenerational mentorship.
07 · Threads of Hope learning + senior and disability inclusion
Consider livelihood opportunities alongside inclusive community support and accessibility.
10 · Women’s village banking + water access
Discuss hypothetical savings-group education and community water access. The proposed Village Banking initiative has not rolled out; this concept offers no deposit-taking, lending or member-account activity.
11 · Threads of Hope learning + youth mentorship
Explore vocational livelihoods and approved youth development. This pairing recurs in the original journey plan.
14 · Women’s microfinance + fuel-efficient stoves
Learn about women-led enterprise and the economics of household energy.
16 · Threads of Hope learning + youth mentorship
A second approved calendar date pairing the same two learning themes as journey 11. It is not a separate community program; visitor activities are tailored to local host arrangements.
19 · Women’s village banking + sanitation
Explore fictional group-finance learning and community-led sanitation needs only. There is no active Village Banking group or financial placement available through this journey concept.
21 · Threads of Hope learning + feeding program
Consider relationships between vocational livelihoods and family or school nutrition.
23 · Women’s microfinance + early childhood
Learn about women’s economic opportunities and the early-learning pathway, with safeguarding and host permissions.
26 · Threads of Hope learning + optional cultural travel
Explore partner-approved tailoring and livelihoods; a safari or additional cultural excursion would be a separately confirmed optional travel arrangement.
Youth leadership, sports and community health (2 concepts)
Youth and health-related learning requires qualified supervision, a relevant local organizer’s invitation, and activity-specific safeguards; clinical placements are not offered through this catalogue.
08 · Youth mentorship + clean energy
Explore youth-led ideas and locally relevant clean-energy solutions.
15 · Medical and sports camp + feeding support
A historical event concept linking health, sports, and nutrition; any future participation depends on an independently confirmed event, professional roles, and permissions.
Water, sanitation, housing and dignity (3 concepts)
Community-led accessibility and infrastructure learning is subject to professional oversight; this index does not promise that visitors will build houses, boreholes, or toilets.
17 · Senior and disability inclusion + borehole access
Explore inclusion, accessibility and community water-access priorities.
24 · Sanitation + youth mentorship
Learn about sanitation and appropriately supervised youth engagement.
25 · Senior and disability inclusion + agro-enterprise
Explore inclusive livelihoods and agricultural resilience; originally drafted as an optional January 2028 extension, not a 2027 booking.
How a learning journey becomes a real visit
Tell us what you hope to learn, your skills, group profile and preferred dates. Friends of Dago consults Dago Dala Hera, local hosts and the relevant independent partners to assess capacity, suitability and safeguards. The calendar dates and learning themes are approved; the team then confirms your individual itinerary, accommodation, availability and participation requirements in writing. Clinical services, access to children, construction work, and partner-led programs are never guaranteed by this catalogue.
Explore, inquire or read further
Start with Visit Dago, review visitor FAQs, or see Learning & Exchange. Independent optional excursions are confirmed separately from community activities.