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Uganda Orphan Skills Training
The Uganda Orphan Training Centre aims to improve the welfare of HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children by equipping them with the skills and knowledge to become independent and shape their future.
The Volunteer Project
The centre was started in January 2000 by community volunteers to support the ever increasing number of orphaned and vulnerable children out of school. These children, who have often lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, are unable to pay school fees, or buy study materials and with the serious lack of spaces in rural schools often receive no education.
As a Uganda volunteer you will provide training to the children at a vocational skills training centre, including skills such as carpentry and joinery, bricklaying and construction, tailoring, pottery, organic farming and animal husbandry and bark cloth making.
If you have skills in any other areas, such as vehicle mechanics, plumbing, or electrics, the centre is keen to introduce these courses to the training offered. Sport is also an important part of the activities available to the students, so you may help coaching football, netball, or athletics. You may also carry out HIV/AIDS awareness workshops with the trainees, as well as other members of the community.
Other Volunteer Work
Some of the classrooms and dormitories have still not been completed and there is no reliable power system, therefore for volunteers with an interest in building or labour work there are some great opportunities available.
Project Location
Uganda is located where the savannah of East Africa meets the jungle of West Africa. It has a tradition of hospitality and easygoing people. The location of this orphan training programme is Kyotera in Southwest Uganda.
Accommodation & MealsYou will stay in a comfortable basic shared volunteer house in a safe area on the edge of town not far from the training centre. The house has flushing toilets and showers but there are often water shortages so water may have to be collected and buckets used to wash. The staff at the house includes a cook, house-keeper and a night watchman for your security.
Two meals a day are provided. Breakfast is usually self-service, you can take a packed lunch to the centre and the cook prepares evening meals.
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Programme Overview
Durations & Prices: 4 weeks £799, 8 weeks £1149, 12 weeks £1449
How to book & pay:
£195 deposit to secure place, balance due 12 weeks before departure.
What is included?
Airport transfers
Orientation on arrival
Project transport, as required.
Accommodation at volunteer house
Full support and assistance
Breakfast and dinner each day
24 hour emergency support |
What is not included?
Personal travel insurance
All flights
Email/Internet, telephone calls
Soft drinks, beer, wines and spirits
Visas
Any excursions not on itinerary |
Programme Summary:
Help improve the welfare of HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children by equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge to become independent and positively shape their future.
Other Uganda volunteer work
Arrival dates: Set start dates every month, please contact us.
Uganda Travel Advice:
Visit our Uganda Travel Advice page for useful travel information. |
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Ask a question
If there's anything you'd like to know, call 01892 516 164
or complete the form below and we'll be able to help.
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