About us
Touch-Humanity International Voluntary Services (THIVS) is a non-profit and membership organization founded in October 2001 by former volunteers and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) members. The founder members had a common desire to join forces and take steps to touch the souls of the needy, troubled and suffering people in community through humanitarian services. Initially, the members participated in some events which included visiting orphans homes to spend time with children who needed love, cleaning the polluted rivers and jointly organized a beauty show for slum poor girls’ education bursary in Kenya. 
 
In 2003, THIVS developed an international voluntary sector programme and a policy framework to help execute its mandate. Today, THIVS has established international partnership and collaborates with more than 40 local community development projects and institutions in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan - the world’s most popular destinations for volunteer and holiday vacations. The projects are located in the rural villages and semi-urban areas where the level of awareness is still low, resources limited and abject poverty and diseases widespread. 

The THIVS international programmes are based on concepts of gap year and career breaks – which means taking time off from your normal study or work life to discover the world and yourself. The programmes allows one to travel, work with disadvantaged communities and discover new places - a life-changing opportunity to share life, exchange skills and experience an enriching cultural diversity for the benefit of greater friendship. Hundreds of people are coming to Africa every month to volunteer, donate to orphans or enjoy holiday adventures.

Mission
THIVS works to alleviate human suffering socially, psychologically and economically through provision of life-support mechanism by promoting volunteering as a powerful force for change, both for those who volunteer and for the wider community.

Goal
To promote development by providing additional human and resources to help communities utilize locally available resources and opportunities - as they identify, design and implement them. 

Aim
To develop programmes, recruit participants, mobilize materials to stimulate local people in their struggle to overcome challenges to attain un-met needs.

T.H.I.V.S Objectives
¤ To develop international volunteers to actively work in less-developed locations. 
¤ To promote the community’s ideas and efforts to utilize locally available resources. 
¤ To offer a life-time opportunity for young people to become agents for positive change. 
¤ To create sustainable community projects through voluntary service in specific areas. 
¤ To mobilize resources for any project that is of great beneficial to the community. 
¤ To offer pre, post, degree, and high school students with gap year opportunities. 
¤ To provide people with career breaks or holidays vacations opportunities abroad. 
¤ To work with voluntary, travel and orphans sponsorship organizations worldwide.
¤ To promote cultural integration, building of friendship and international understanding.
¤ To develop and participate in programmes that strengthens global volunteer's movement. 
¤ To do all such things that are incidental to/or conducive to the attainment of any of the above objectives.

Personal Growth
The participant is exposed to new and authentic experiences, gains skills and knowledge in development work, challenging situations, leadership and cross-cultural communication - thus gaining a broaden perspective of themselves and the world in which we all live.

Experience The Challenge!
So, if you are prepared to travel abroad, explore, help, volunteer, gain an experience of a life-time and in a little way help foster real change in people lives with humility and compassion, this is a good chance for you.