Description:
Provide education for AIDS orphans, help families to gain economic independence, and instruct the community about health issues.
The Global Volunteer Network currently has opportunities aimed at providing primary and secondary education to needy children and community outreach and counseling with our partner organization in Uganda. This provides an opportunity to experience Ugandan life first-hand while working to improve your host community.
Opportunities Include:
Village Teaching and Outreach Placement:
Village teaching placements can include arts and crafts, structured play, music/singing, sports, health, and academics. Volunteers can teach primary or secondary students. Volunteers choose which subjects and age groups to teach upon arrival.
Village community outreach placements can include youth mentoring, team building, HIV prevention and AIDS care, sanitation and hygiene, and general public health. For volunteers with a medical background, placements can include working with health-based organizations. Volunteer activities may include home visiting, designing education materials, conducting seminars, and maintaining wells and other village infrastructure.
Mukono Town Teaching Projects:
Our partner works with four private primary schools in Mukono town that cater exclusively to the education, housing and feeding of needy children and orphans. Volunteers are involved in arts and crafts, structured play, music/singing, sports, health, and academics. The main focus is to provide children with a loving, creative, interactive environment in which to flourish.
Organic Farming Project:
Volunteers with a green thumb, or those who just want to plunge their hands into deep, rich, African soil, will be interested in an organic farming placement. This village based placement teaches and promotes modern methods of organic farming in rural Ugandan communities.
Volunteers work along side Ugandans digging and maintaining demonstration gardens. Activities include raised bed and double-dug farming to best utilize soil and make planting, harvesting, and fertilizing easier. Volunteers also teach water conservation by lining large pits with plastic bags to collect and store rain water. The organization composts garden refuse and spreads it as fully organic fertilizer and shows how to create pesticides by mixing ingredients such as tobacco, chilli pepper and onion.
Remote Orphan Care Project:
For volunteers wishing to work in a very remote area with HIV affected orphans, our partner works with a project in western Uganda, about 5 hours away from its other host organizations. This is the area where HIV/AIDS has most devastated Uganda. The organisation is focused on bringing aid, education, and love to the orphans of the area, many of whom have lost their parents due to AIDS related illnesses.
Volunteers help with basic academics, feeding, organizing play, arts and crafts, hygiene and HIV/AIDS education appropriate to the childrens' age level (3 to 12 years). Volunteers may be asked to help with administrative work such as budgeting, updating paperwork, writing proposals, and maintaining personal files on the children. This is a challenging but amazing program for volunteers with experience organising children, such as camp counsellors, day care workers, and people who love children. Bring your games, songs, and enthusiasm to the village!
Public Health Improvement Project:
This is a project promoting general public health improvement in Uganda. Volunteers travel with and work alongside Ugandan counsellors in a variety of programs, directly benefiting 10 rural communities and 7 secondary schools. Volunteers will be engaged in a combination of the following activities:
To apply for our Uganda volunteer program please visit our website.
Highlights:
* An opportunity to experience Ugandan life first-hand while working to improve your host community.
* Fall in love with the kids, and fall in love with the whole country! The people are very friendly, hospitable, and generous.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
Volunteers for the Uganda program must:
* be 18 years or older
* have no major health problems
* be able to walk distances up to 5km daily
* obtain a police check from your home country prior to volunteering
* sign a general waiver of liability
* have a positive and outgoing personality
Minimum Education: High School
Language:
English
Cost in US$: Please visit our website for details
Cost Includes: The in-country fee covers administrative charge, project donation, airport pickup, transport to project, meals and accommodation during placement, and supervision.
You will need a weekly budget of approximately USD 25 to cater for all your other expenses like bottled water, personal costs, beverages and entertainment. The other costs you will need to meet are your flights, visa, shots, travel insurance, and departure tax.
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
community development,
community health,
English teaching,
grassroots organization,
health education,
literacy,
organic farming,
orphans,
primary education,
public speaking coordination,
recreation
and youth development
Typical Volunteer: Volunteers are required to be at least 18 years of age and have no major health problems.
Age Range: At least 18 years of age
This Program is open to
American,
Australian,
Canadian,
European
and Kiwi
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangement:
Group living
Participants Travel to Uganda
Independently
Typically Participants Work
Independently
Application Process Involves:
Typically The Application Process Time Is 2-3 days
Post Services Include:
Alumni Network
Global Volunteer Network's Mission Statement: The Global Volunteer Network (GVN) is a New Zealand Charitable Trust (non-profit NGO) based in Wellington, New Zealand. Our Charitable incorporation number is: CC46460.
Our vision is to support the work of local community organizations in developing countries through the placement of international volunteers. We believe that local communities are in the best position to determine their needs, and we provide volunteers to help them achieve their goals.
Year Founded: 2000
Global Volunteer Network is a based organization. We do not require our participants to be of the same faith. Our volunteers will not be involved in religious proselytizing.