Category: VOLUNTEERS TESTIMONIES

Our staff / teachers are qualified and devoted to their work, but still in need of new, more effective, up-to-date teaching techniques and materials, as well as support, encouragement and renewal. We have nursery and primary classes here at the school. If you have the qualities and abilities to teach young children and train our…
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Are you looking for opportunities to volunteer with elderly people to provide companionship and operational support within elderly care centres abroad? This project is well suited to caring and patient volunteers who are comfortable assisting with a range of duties within communities. In many of our project locations, the responsibility of caring for the elderly…
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With the aim of increasing access to quality healthcare in Uganda, volunteers on the Medical project are placed within local clinics and medical centers that are incredibly low on resources and staff. These clinics and medical centers encompass a wide range of medical fields and offer in and out-patient services, tending to a high volume…
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In Uganda, there are increasing numbers of children born with either mental or physical disabilities, as well as young people and adults who become disabled through the course of their lives. Volunteers on the Special Needs Care project are placed in day schools for individuals with special needs, or in a special needs treatment center,…
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As a growing and ambitious organization, we strive to get on a fast track with our projects. Thus we are in need of marketing and networking our organization and its projects as widely as possible. If you know some good organizations that could support us, or would like to help extend our network, you are…
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WASH is the collective term for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Due to their interdependent nature, these three core issues are grouped together to represent a growing sector. While each a separate field of work, each is dependent on the presence of the other. For example, without toilets, water sources become contaminated; without clean water, basic…
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I was looking for a volunteer placement and my first preference was Uganda, but then this opportunity in Kampala came up and before I knew it I had contacts with the directors of UVF. A week later I was on the plane to Uganda in chase for a new adventure. Uganda Volunteers Foundation seem the…
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I volunteered at UVF in June 2017 as part of a group of 9 people. I loved my experience thanks to Eva who welcomed us and helped us to settle into Uganda. We had a range of options from the program, however seeing as we are all teachers, our main base was at the school.…
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