UPA/MLTV/19 ASSEND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Solidarités Jeunesses

Description

Assend Youth Development Foundation was founded in 2011 as a street children initiative by a former street youth Mr. Kibande Moses Daniel who learnt about the real life of a street child and all the consequences a head, he then started sharing them with his peers, and in 2013 AYDF, was officially registered as a community based organization with registration NO, CEN/13/156 mainly to a power valuable communities/street children with valuable and marketable skills that enhances their potential to effectively participate in the development process of the country and at household levels by initiating practical skills development among themselves and hence improve on to their social wellbeing.

Realizing from the past research work carried out by AYDF on the causes and impact of street life on both personal and national development, and recognizing the escalating number of street children in Kampala suburb areas, AYDF realized the need to expand its areas of operation so as to bring about comprehensive and effective social service delivery to the target group, therefore in 2015.

PARTENAIRE

UPA has hosted international volunteers since it’s inception in 1989 and upholds volunteer exchange and intercultural cooperation as tools for promotion of community based development, intercultural understanding and youth participation.

Localisation

Kampala; uganda

Informations supplémentaires

No special requirements

Remarques

Uganda Pioneers Association welcomes all volunteers to participate in the UPA MLTV Program,
For details contact us on e-mail: uganda_pioneers22@hotmail.com/info@ugandapioneers.org

Participants are required to pay a participation fee of Euro 500 (five hundred Euros) on arrival for a period of 1- 3months and 80 Euros (eighty Euros) in advance for each additional month/s.

Travail

Engage street children, orphan and other vulnerable children in Counseling
and psychosocial support
Vocational training skills (if the volunteers brings the skills)
Engage the street children/ vulnerable children in sports/ Soccer program so
as to promote talent and skills development
Curry out/participating in community and home visits together with other staff, to see the life situation of the children living in the slums
Participate in promoting functional literacy and numeracy among the street
children that can prepare them for formal education
Organizing, teaching and supervising the computer class
Documentation/proposal Developing and design
Street Children/Community outreach: this involves community HIV/AIDS
awareness and testing. Street children counseling. AYDF is working on 4R
module which involves Rescue, Rehabilitate, Reconcile and Resettle.
Economic Empowerment: AYDF is working closely with vulnerable community households by providing small loans to set up small scale businesses that will enable them improve on their social welfare.
Human rights Advocacy: AYDF works closely with the community leaders,
religious leaders, police, local government, and central government to
promote child rights and create awareness among the vulnerable community members and ensure safer place for child development

Volunteers are supposed to be at the office by 9:00am until 4:00pm. However, in some cases volunteers may work longer hours but after discussing with the project managers

Logement & nourriture

Volunteers will stay at the UPA volunteer Guesthouse in Nansana.

Transport: It takes 8,000/= UGX (to and from) from UPA to AYDF Centre along Northern by-pass Busega Kibumbiro (Kampala) by public means.

Emplacement & temps libre

Uganda is a beautiful country gifted by nature. Volunteers may take time off on weekends or after the project to visit National parks (lions, elephants, giraffes, kobs, buffalos etc), go white water rafting, visit the mountain gorillas and enjoy the Ugandan sun. For further information visit: www.visituganda.com.