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Uganda Reach Out to Children

If you volunteer for this program, you’ll be helping out with a community run project that was set up 2001 solely to help disadvantaged young children and their families in the locality. Many of them have been affected by AIDS/HIV.You’ll be assisting the project in improving access to vocational and life skills, their living environments and their personal rights.

The Volunteer Role

Working alongside other volunteers and the organization’s staff, you’ll be involved in helping identify struggling families and through home visiting, draw up profiles of the families and their particular needs. This information will be used in addressing what assistance should be provided, and also used as a basis for raising funds to help support them. Though the project mainly works with orphaned or abandoned children who live alone, or those whose parents suffer terminal illnesses, it also helps marginalized groups such as women, street youth and the elderly.

This Volunteering in Uganda program has a scheme where children from marginalized areas of society work in a skills training & vocational center. Here they build kitchens, latrines and shelters for other families who are part of the project. They also might make beds for other children. Because of this, any one bringing these kind of vocational or building skills would be very welcomed on the program.

You’ll be involved in organizational activities such as creating reports and proposing fundraising strategies for the related families. Anyone with administration and writing skills would be very useful on this program, but you will also have the opportunity to use any fundraising or creating key partnership skills that are a regular part of charity organizations. A great skill to take back home and used in the world of work.

Project Location

The project is based in Kyotera, in southwest Uganda

Accommodation & Meals

You’ll be sharing a safe, basic but comfortable house with other volunteers located on the edge of town. It is within easy reach of the center. There are western style toilets, but sometimes during shortages of water, collected water is used and you may have to wash from buckets. A the house, you’ll have a housekeeper, cook and night security man for your safety. Two meals are provided at the house daily, but a pack lunch is required to take to the center.

Programme Overview

Durations & Prices:
4 weeks - $1519/€1189,
8 weeks - $2089/€1629,
12 weeks - $2659/€2079,

How to book & pay:
$339/€259 deposit to secure place, balance due 10 weeks before departure.

What is included?
Project donation
Airport transfers
Orientation on arrival
Project transport, as required
Accommodation at volunteer house
Full support and assistance
Breakfast and dinner each day
24 hour emergency support

What is not included?
Personal travel insurance
All flights
Email/Internet, telephone calls
Soft drinks, beer, wines and spirits
Visas
Any excursions not on itinerary

Programme Summary:
You’ll be assessing the needs of local children and families affected by diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, and also helping to raise funds to support them. You’ll have the chance of helping out at the local skills and vocational center set up to help give these children work skills that will help them find future employment.

Arrival dates: Set start dates every month, please contact us.