Community Development Volunteering Project

Name: Community Development Volunteering Project
Start: 2022-03-01
End: 2027-03-10
Location: Kampala, Uganda

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Uganda Social work 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

Being a volunteer for this project, your main roles would be: Ensuring better living conditions to the local communities by contributing to the building and renovation of water sources, houses,among others. Spread awareness about good health & sanitation among the students. Volunteers mostly work alongside community members using traditional building methods. Help in fundraising campaigns etc.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Since the project takes place at the Island we move with Tents to camp and do the projects in the area. Volunteer(s) are advised to come with personal tents, sleeping bag and mosquito repellents for Camping. If the volunteer does not come with any of these, we give the opportunity for the volunteer to hire.

📍 About the location

With a population of over 22,043 people, majority of whom are children, youth and refugee women, 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.

ℹ️ Additional information

VOLUNTEER PERIOD PROGRAM FEE US$
1 Week 210
4 Weeks 550

What is included in program fee?

80% of the total fee goes directly to the Saint Ann Foundation and 20% of the fee covers the following:

Airport pick up upon arrival
Orientation and training
Accommodations in the volunteer house and associated maintenance (housekeeping, gas, electricity e.t.c) and water
Feeding but on local food
Or monthly contribution to those living witha host family
Evaluations and certificates
General administrative costs for SAF staff

We work Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 4:30pm although sometimes it depends on what needs to be accomplished. Typical working days start with staff meeting to review the tasks at hand including following up on the unfinished ones and planning for the next. Then everyone will get to work on their assigned tasks including those going to the field or attend external meetings. We have team breakfast at 10:30 am and lunch at 1:00 pm at the project area However flexibility is very important at this level