📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Uganda Pioneers´ Association (UPA) is a youth voluntary organization working with community projects, workcamps and volunteer exchange. UPA was founded in 1989 by young Ugandans with the aim of mobilizing youth to contribute to community development through voluntary work.
💼 What the programme involves
Construction Work
• Roofing work
• Plastering the wall
• Fitting windows and doors
• Painting work / Compound clearness
Psychosocial work
• HIV/AIDs Testing outreaches
• Visit HIV positive patients
• Health Film show
• Brain storming culture concepts on HIV/Aids.
🏠 Accommodation on site
• Accommodation will be in the dorms at the project coordinators home in a village near by the work place.
• The work place has Latrines as toilets but no flashing toilets.
• The accommodation has a simple bath room without shower (there is no running water).
• The accommodation and work place do not have electricity only solar power to run the lights
📍 About the location
• Visiting a fishing site on R. Nile
• Home visits
• Teaching English to Children / Parents,
• Cooking lessons with local food
• Community walk to small Trading Centers;
⚠️ Requirements
Participants shall be required to bring own sleeping bag, mat, pillow, mosquito net, sun cream, mosquito repellent, working gloves and boots/shoes. Light working clothes during working hours and warm clothes at night, as it may turn out to be chilly or cold; Musical instrument (optional); torch or flash light; water purifiers (optional); Personal effects (i.e. soap, toothpaste, toiletries).
It would be nice if you can bring your national flag, common art facts of your country, stories, games, pictures and local recipes. It would be helpful for the cultural presentations about your country and for any social interactions. Above all do not forget a happy and positive attitude.
NB: Very short skirts, dresses and shorts (above the knee) will not be culturally welcomed.
ℹ️ Additional information
September is a month of rain seasons, so it is advisable to bring closed working shoes for easy walking just in case it rains.
Tourist visa for people from the most nations valid for one to three month are available at the airport (fee: 100 US-Dollars) though it can be helpful to get detailed information from your local embassy in advance. The fee does not cover transport back to the airport after the project. Volunteers interested in being taken back to the airport shall be required to ask UPA for the arrangement. It will cost the volunteer an extra 25 – 28 Euros for this service.