UPA2523 COMMUNITY EMPOWERNMENT FOR VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT UGANDA (CEFOVID UG) Solidarités Jeunesses

PARTENAIRE

Uganda Pioneers´ Association (UPA) is an indigenous youth voluntary Non-Government Organization (NGO) registered with the National NGO Bureau in Uganda, under No. S5914/114. The organization focuses on offering youths with the opportunity to contribute to community development by involving them in community projects through workcamps and international volunteer exchanges. The organisation is Not-for-Profit and does not represent any political, religious or sectarian motives.

Localisation

KAMPALA

gare la plus proche

Kampala

aéroport le plus proche

EBB

Itinéraire vers le point de RDV

UPA organizes one of our staff or volunteers to pickup volunteers from the airport in Entebbe or at any bus station in Kampala. (The volunteer or staff will hold a printed out A4 paper with the name Uganda Pioneers Association and the Name of the expected Volunteer. To receive this service you need to confirm your arrival details including flight name, number, arrival day, date and time with UPA and your sending Organisation.

Informations supplémentaires

• Passion to work with children and slum communities • Open minded and emotionally strong with ability to appreciate local setting • Volunteer should be interested not necessarily qualified • Innovativeness, knowledge of social work and administration and Computer skills is an added advantage

Remarques

Visa 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’s paid during the visa application process on the immigration portal using selected pay cards.

Travail

• Support to Orphan and Vulnerable Children with quality education • Sexual reproductive health and HIV&AIDS youth counseling • Life skills training to vulnerable women and youths:- Crafts, urban farming, liquid soap production and tailoring • Early childhood learning at Kosovo slum • Providing recreation activities to children and youth such as games and sports, drama etc • Food nutritional counseling and sensitization support, Community and home monitoring visits • Strategic networking and linkage(referral) • Organizing Community Health camps • Organizing Hygiene and sanitation camps • Hand washing project.

Logement & nourriture

Accommodation Volunteers has the possibility to choose between staying in the guesthouse, with different international volunteers (sharing room, normally 2-4 people) or to stay in a host family. Accommodation is at the UPA Guesthouse, average but not luxury. Food Volunteers prepare their own food. UPA provides gas cooker, a fridge, and utensils. Alternatively, a volunteer can stay with a host family to be more exposed to the Ugandan culture.

Emplacement & temps libre

LOCATION located in the urban surbubs of Lubya parish slums LEISURE, The Volunteer may use leisure time to visit some sites around the city which include, Kasubi Tombs, Bahai and Hindu Temples, Uganda Martyrs shrines, local markets, craft shops, Ndere centre, Uganda Museum, Monument sites, Uganda Parliament, factories and other explorations.