📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Uganda Youth and Women’s Effort Fighting AIDS (UYWEFA) was established in 2007 after realizing gaps in home based care. As a charity organization, it dedicates and designs activities and campaigns to promote awareness and sensitization of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and other diseases to become self reliant. It is registered with Wakiso District Directorate of Community Based Services as community based organisation number WCBO 325/07.
To mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS for people living with, and affected by, HIV/AIDS through provision of home based care, advocating health rights and empowering youth and women with the aim of enabling people living and affected by HIV/AIDS to become self reliant.
💼 What the programme involves
• Teach children at nursery stage in mathematics, English, science, reading, writing, arts and crafts and practical skills.
• Play games and sports with children.
• Teach adults literacy, business skills, nutrition and basic healthcare.
• Music, dance and drama.
• Psycho-social support to people living with HIV/AIDS
• HIV/AIDS counselling and prevention work in communities, schools and workplaces
• Assist teachers in preparing lesson plans and administering exams
• Assist in school administration and management
• Prepare and submit updates on the education centre to the community
• Conduct home visits to vulnerable children where necessary
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation can be in UPA Guesthouse, host families or in rented house depending on the location of the project you apply for or wish of the volunteer. At the Guesthouse, accommodation will be simple but comfortable. The UPA Guesthouse can accommodate 18 persons at any given time.
Volunteers will cook their own meals using gas. A small fridge is available to keep food. But remember that electricity in Uganda is unreliable. The boys' room is separate from that of the girls and there is a caretaker to do the general cleaning of the house at specific times. Other minor Guesthouse utensils' cleaning, the volunteers are expected to do for themselves. You have to do your own laundry by hand or in case of need may be done by the caretaker at a mutually agreed fee. There is a shared kitchen where you can make your meals and there is one shower, a toilet and a pit latrine.
📍 About the location
UYWEFA is based in Kazo, 5 miles from Kampala. From UPA Guest house volunteers will get there by public means with an estimated cost of about 10,000 Uganda shilling (to and from).
⚠️ Requirements
UYWEFA requires that a volunteer has an open mind and be creative. A self-driven and motivated volunteer, willing to work under minimum supervision. Having administration or management skills would be of an added advantage but not mandatory.
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.