📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
UPA Cultural troupe is committed to promote community sensitization and awareness through music, dance and drama. The Cultural troupe started in 1994 as a pilot project of UPA. The troupe was started mainly to be used for promoting cultures, running awareness campaigns, fundraising and marketing UPA and her activities.
💼 What the programme involves
• Traditional Dance: traditional dance lessons carried out by a trained instructor.
• Modern Dance: Learn basics of a modern dance (Hip-Hop, Breakdance, Dancehall…)
• Constructing instruments and costumes
• Performances in traditional and modern dances
• Filming for the video UPA NIBOLA song
. Clearing the road to the campsite (digging, slashing)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation:
• Accommodation will be in simple rooms.
• Participants will be required to carry own mat and sleeping bag.
• The camp site has simple bathrooms and pit latrines no showers
• A simple cooking shelter (Kitchen)
• Participants are requested to bring with them mosquito nets
FOOD :
• The food is basic and simple. Be ready to take the same dish for some days in a row.
• Fruits can at times be availed for the campers from local markets.
• Participants will chose food to prepare depending on the availability.
• Work campers will use charcoal or firewood to prepare the meals.
• If you need more fruits/extra meals/special diet you can get at your own cost.
📍 About the location
Location:
The work-campers will be hosted at a farm house in Kakunyu village, Bukomero Town Council in Kiboga District. Kiboga District is located in the central part of Uganda bordered by Nakaseke District in the northeast, Masindi in the northwest, Mubende district in the south and Kibale district in the southwest. Kakunyu lies 85km on Kampala-Hoima road.
Leisure:
During the workcamp period the participants will visit the following places:
• Visit the community market in Bukomero
• Climbing the Kateera Hills
Note:
Other visits on the weekend, like visiting Kampala (Ghaddafi Mosque, Kasubi Tombs etc) or Entebbe (Wildlife Center, Botanical garden or beaches) are at the cost of interested volunteers.
⚠️ Requirements
• Traditional Dance: traditional dance lessons carried out by a trained instructor.
• Modern Dance: Learn basics of a modern dance (Hip-Hop, Breakdance, Dancehall…)
• Constructing instruments and costumes
• Performances in traditional and modern dances
• Filming for the video UPA NIBOLA song
. Clearing the road to the campsite (digging, slashing)
ℹ️ Additional information
The volunteers must apply for a tourist visa online with this link. https://www.visas.immigration.go.ug/ . This should be done a couple of weeks or months before the departure date. The form requires you to fill in the address of the contact person in Uganda and you should use: ZZIWA SAMUEL MUSANYUSA, NANSANA WEST I ZONE, +256785601220. The immigration department sends you an approval document which you must print and present on arrival at the airport. The tourist visa costs 50 US $ and it is better to carry it in cash.