📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Buganda kingdom dates 200years back with very reach history and establishment. One of the outstanding treasures of Buganda is the tombs which were inscribed in a World Heritage centre by UNESCO. Having experienced last year's tragedy of the burning down the only Heritage Site of its kind in Uganda. The kingdom is looking for potential patterns, well wishers and motivates Volunteers to help rebuild the former glory of the kingdom by conserving, protecting and promoting the heritage site in all aspects. We as UVDA are patterning with the kingdom to rebuild, restore, and document some of the activities of a two decade legacy.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers participate in organizing a WHV – work camp, Plan festival activities together with the site managers, giving information to local people who want to participate in local camps and keeping in touch with the host organization, directly participate in the camps, Link with potential partners/stakeholders, prepare the community for the International work camp and festival preparations.
How will the international volunteers be involved in the activities?
- participate in the sensitization process of the community
- Creating awareness
- Documenting various activities on the site
- Participating in a work camp leading to inter cultural exchange and cooperation
- Planting of indigenous trees
- develop promotion materials in a volunteers view (e.g. documentaries and IEC materials)
- Organizing cultural gala, festival, working together on the restoration process, screening of relevant films
-Assist in the development of other non-formal tools and any other activity as they may arise.
Study theme: “Together for Heritage”
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in nearby house within the tombs and tents as men are not allowed to reside inside the tombs as a cultural norm.
🍲 Food
This is an urban setting and most of the food stuff is original Buganda culture.
📍 About the location
Situated on the hill within Kampala, the Kasubi tombs site is an active religious place in the Buganda kingdom .Its a place as the burial ground for the previous 4 Kabakas makes it a very important religious centre for the royal family, a place where the kabaka and his representatives frequently carry out important rituals related to Ganda culture. The Kasubi Toms site is also an outstanding example of traditional Ganda architecture, and an exceptional testimony of the living Ganda traditions. For Uganda, and for the eastern African region as a whole, the site represents an important symbol for its history and culture. The site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.
🤝 Meeting point
Uganda Voluntary Development Association will organize pickup for vols. from the airport as per their schedule. Expense incurred from the pickup place (only city centre) is covered by UVDA as part of the participation fee provided you arrive during office hours an extra fee shall be levied on night arrivals. So volunteers are encouraged to communicate/confirm their arrival at least a week before departure for proper preparations.
ℹ️ Additional information
1 month EURO 300
1 month – 3 months EURO 450
1 month – 6 months EURO 750
1 month – 9 months EURO 900
1 month – 12 months EURO 1200
This fee is ONLY for monitoring, upkeep in host families and evaluation of the participants while at the project. It also includes airport transportation, orientation, host family housing, project preparation and supervision, project participation certificate. An additional $ 100 for volunteer permit.