Care orphanage project in Uganda Profile

Care orphanage project in Uganda

Volunteers can work with orphanages in Uganda. In our projects, you help orphaned children with daily life and extra-curricular activities. However, the most important thing you offer these poor children is love and attention that they so desperately crave and truly deserve.

General Info

There are many orphans in Uganda. Many children have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic or have been abandoned due to extreme poverty or other unfortunate social situations. Oftentimes children are saved from a life of young soldiers or are rescued from human trafficking circumstances. There is an immense need for people to volunteer with orphaned Ugandan children.

Volunteers can work with orphanages in Uganda. In our projects, you help orphaned children with daily life and extra-curricular activities. However, the most important thing you offer these poor children is love and attention that they so desperately crave and truly deserve. Resources for orphans are spread thin. Orphanage workers in Uganda do their best, but manpower is low and it is the face to face contact that this children greatly need. Hugs from volunteers working with orphans in Uganda are priceless!

Skills/Qualification Needed
There is no specific qualification needed to join the orphanage volunteer project. However, volunteers must be flexible and patient. You should have passion and love for children.

Volunteer Responsibilities
Volunteers working in Ugandan orphanages generally show support by tutoring (mostly English) the children at the orphanage where they are home-schooled assisting/educating them in areas of personal hygiene (i.e. brushing, flossing their teeth) and life skills. You may also help with math, science or other subjects. As a volunteer in the orphanage project, you also help with homework and encourage their academic progress. Afternoons and evenings are fun times. You will organize activities, games, sing-a-longs and dances as well as other creativity-based activities to teach the children In the orphanages where children attend a school, daytime activities for volunteers include: administrative work and helping with cleaning, cooking and gardening or teaching at the local school.

You will be kept busy during the day if the children go to a local school, by helping clean, cook as well as working in the garden or you may also help teachers at the local school.

Volunteers who are qualified professions in nursing, pediatrics and are also needed in orphanages and children rehabilitation centers. They can mostly work with in checking and treating children with various illnesses and restore their hope.

Info

Company:

Maasai International Challenge Africa (MICA)

Activities:

Ngo / Gap year / Childcare Work / Combo Travel Placements / Medical, Health, Medicine / Orphanage Work / Care Work / Charity / Community Projects

Countries:

Uganda

Location:

Uganda

Duration / Dates

Start Dates:

Flexible dates and durations of stay. Available throughout year, from 4 weeks-3 months+. You pick your start and finish dates.

Costs / Benefits:

Costs vary depending on length of stay. Starts at $500-750usd for 4 weeks including accommodation, food, transfer from the airport, full pre-departure support, local in-country team support and backup, 24-hour emergency support. Programs with MICATZ start on the 3rd and 15th of every month. Program costs tend to range from $200 (1 week) to $3,000(6 months.)

Requirements:

No any qualifications are necessary to join most of our Tanzania volunteer programs, just a good dose of enthusiasm and some experience if you have it and if you don’t have it then no problem with it! Everyone is welcome on a micatz programme, whether gap year, undergraduate, on a career break - or even retired! From 15 years old upwards, and all nationalities. This placement would suit anyone who wants to make a real difference, wants first-hand experience of a different culture and has initiative.