Childcare Volunteer Project

Name: Childcare Volunteer Project
Start: 2022-01-01
End: 2026-12-30
Location: Kampala, Uganda

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Uganda Children Social work Children Social work Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Our partner is a non-governmental organisation registered in Uganda that envisions a world where children are nurtured and loved, given the necessary support they need to live life to their full potential, rescuing them from extreme poverty, deprivation, and where adolescent girls and young women have the opportunity to actively contribute to their communities.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteer Roles & Responsibilities
Being a volunteer, you'll have to work alongside the existing staff to care for the children. You'll also have to help in the daily tasks at the Childcare Centers such as washing clothes, feeding the children and making suggestions to the staff for improvement, help in administrative work etc. Help the children with their homework and play games with them to engage them in activity-based learning. In case you are a creative person, you can try your hands in adding some more colors to the entire environment, by renovating the center.
Whether you have a background in childcare, social work or simply enjoy caring for children, a smile or a hug can make a real impact in the life to a child with an aching heart. Working with children can be fun and a rewarding experience. The only quality required of a volunteer is to have compassion, patience and desire to work with children.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will live in a volunteers’ house.

🍲 Food

Three meals will be offered every day.

Breakfast - 07:30 am onwards.

Lunch - 12:30 pm onwards.

Dinner - 06:30 pm onwards.

📍 About the location

Buyiga Island is not as far away as might be expected. It is found in Kamengo Sub- County, Mawokota North constituency, in Mpigi District. Most of the houses occupied by locals are makeshifts with a few of them being semi-permanent.

Their major source of income was originally fishing but the operations to fight illegal fishing declared by President Museveni which has seen many landing sites closed, crippled this activity and the locals are now slowly switching to cultivation and rearing animals.

To access the island, one boards a motorboat to sail via a channel with a thick swamp on either side which joins Lake Victoria. The distance is about 8km and lasts about an 20minutes before one gets to Buyiga Kitawulunzi landing site. It is a difficult journey for those not accustomed to it.

🎒 Leisure activities

Community walk and home visits to homes where these children come from.

⚠️ Requirements

Volunteers must be 16 years or older at the time of joining the project. Participants should have an open mind and flexible attitude for working in a new and different environment. Volunteers need to have a passion for working with children. You should also be proactive and have the ability to take initiative All volunteers must provide a clean criminal background check report prior to joining the program. A parental consent form shall be required for Under 18 participants joining the program.

ℹ️ Additional information

16–99 years old

Solidarity donation

550.00 USD ≈ 493 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Kampala, Uganda

Uganda

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Ugandan Shilling (UGX / USh)

Exchange rate

1 UGX = 0.000219 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

East Africa Time

Local time: 21:04 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective Other

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swahili