Sports Coaching Volunteer Project
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About the project
Sports Coaching Volunteer 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
Sports Teaching volunteer work varies but usually includes:
• Setting up soccer and running physical activities
• Playing games
• Teaching new sports
• Coaching and mentoring children
Weekdays
Please note that start times and daily workloads depend on the project that you are participating on. Some placements run in the afternoon and volunteers on these placements will have the morning to create their lesson plans, or can join another project.
A typical volunteer day might be:
• 7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast at the volunteer house and then travel to your placement to join local placement staff.
• 9:00 AM Start at your placement.
• 12:00 PM Volunteers break for lunch. Most volunteers travel back to the volunteer house for lunch, while some volunteers may be provided lunch at their placement.
• 2:00 PM Work at your placement usually ends. You are free to use this time to lesson plan for tomorrow or spend the afternoon exploring
• 5:30 PM Dinner at the volunteer house. After dinner, you will have the remainder of the evening free to relax and use as you wish.
To ensure the safety of our volunteers and respect of others in the volunteer accommodation, a curfew of 11:30 PM has been put in place for every evening, including the weekend. If you wish to stay out longer, you must discuss this first with our local team and arrange alternative accommodation.
Weekends
Volunteers can spend the weekends exploring Uganda on the tour or safari depending on their interest.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Kind of accomodation provided to the volunteers : Volunteers house
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.
🍲 Food
Number of meals offered a day : 3
📍 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.
The island falls under Musa parish in Kamengo Sub- County and has two villages – Buyiga A and Buyiga B. The local leaders want and have suggested the creation of four new villages namely Kabudindiri, Bagdad, Bibbo, and Kitawuluzi in order to raise the number to six and thereby make Buyiga island an independent parish from Musa.
Access to the island
To access the island, one travels from Busega round about along the Kampala-Masaka Road, to Buwama stage, boards abodaboda (motorcycle) to Kigga kye Buyiga). From there, 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. When one the boat gets stuck in the middle of the waters in the swampy area, which happens often, it has to be pushed by people travelling on it. In fact, about three men get into the boat to travel with the passengers purposely to push it through the swamp when it gets stuck.
🎒 Leisure activities
Community Walk tours
⚠️ Requirements
ℹ️ Additional information
Long-term project : 1 month or more.
1 Week : 210 US$
2 Weeks : 320 US$
3 Weeks : 430 US$
4 Weeks : 550 US$
5 Weeks : 620 US$
6 Weeks : 720 US$
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 with a host family
• Evaluations and certificates
• General administrative costs for SAF staff
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SCoCoP202208/ISB/UGAUTO-EXTAUTO-EXT
31/12/2025 at 00:00 → 30/12/2027 at 00:00
SCoCoP202208/ISB/UGAUTO-EXT
01/01/2024 at 00:00 → 30/12/2025 at 00:00
SCoCoP202208/ISB/UG
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2023
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
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
Uganda, 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: 21:33 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken