Share a Skill, Talent and Time with children, Youth, Women and their families in Communities of Kaliro, Uganda

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  Description

  Am Leonard a medical officer married to my beautiful wife Ingrid a nurse with two amazing children and as a family, we reside in the out skirts of Jinja City one of the oldest and first towns to be established in Uganda the Pearl of Africa.
  
  Jinja was established in 1901 as a British administrative Centre and is endowed with many beautiful tourists’ attraction sceneries like the Source of the Nile a home to beautiful birds like the kingfisher, the rapid and fast water falls that attract kayakers, rafters and Bange Jumping. Jinja has got the Monument of John speak where he stood on his discovery of the Nile River and also the great philosopher Mahatma Ghandi.
  
  The people of Jinja are so vibrant, welcoming with a rich culture of the Basoga tribe with varieties of languages and foods that I bet if you visited, will keep you coming again and again and as new your family away from home, we will always welcome you with open hands, show you around to experience it all from cultural dances, to foods and languages.
  
  Jinja holds the biggest percentage of my childhood memories, both good and bad, hard and smooth. It was by God’s grace, that I made it to medical school where I as well met Ingrid. On several mornings on my way to work, I came across street children, neglected and vulnerable children around our home village and this kept pondering me and reminded me of my own childhood background.
  
  After a long time, One day we sat as a couple on how best we could give a life back and restore the lost hope of our community which ended with us establishing a charity organization in our community with a aim of supporting needy children and their families to develop our communities where we hail from. We got established and registered in Kaliro town and embarked on a journey to track down needy children together with their families in and around Kaliro, and one of the major strategy we had is to support families to be self-sustainable and reliable so they can be able to support their needy children. For the needy children with no families, we searched for their closest relatives or foster families to take them in with our support at the back of it all and making them self-sustainable.
  
  Many needy vulnerable children are still out there fighting for survival on their own and although they keep knocking on people’s doors for support, they are not willing to take them in.
  
  We're now registered in the USA, Texas as a 503(c)(1) charity and together with our US Based Admins, we believe the only way to liberate the African child is by sending them back to school to turn them into responsible and employable citizens who will as well develop our communities and our mother land Uganda at large.
  
  We do look forward to meet passionate and compassionate friends ready to pass on any talent or skills or gifts to the children, youth, widows and their families for a better self-reliable and sustainable families hence community development not forgetting helping out on administration skills like secretarial, fundraising, advertising, and computer literacy. hour visitors will not be allowed to help out with any work or chores at the children's home that we do run but to help in communities to share a skill with the children, youth and women whom we work with in communities around Kaliro district.
  
  Our doors are always open to you all who would love to visit and leave a foot print on the hearts of our community people from young to the elderly.
  
  With kindness and Love
  Leonard & Ingrid

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Help around the house

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Our children, women and communities at large are so amazing, welcoming, entertaining and be assured to some few basic words in our local language.
  
  When here, one will have a chance to visit and/or arrange for you a few lessons to teach in one of our schools to have an experience of our education systems and for health professionals, you will get a chance volunteer in one of our remote health facilities to have the experience of our diverse culture and beliefs.
  
  At our offices, we will be pleased to have you as a family member whom we will share with all our resources and teach at one's pick of interest in a given cultural activity like dance, music, food, dress codes like bark cloth etc
  
  We also look forward to teach you preparation of African dishes and taking you all round our cultural sites, palace, road tour to nearby water falls for fun like water rafting, kayaking and bange Jumping and also visit zoos and game parks that are in our reach.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  At the Foundation, we are working with children, Youth, Women and Widows and the community at large, having you as a visitor expect a handful of activities do for both our beneficiaries and offices which include but not limited to;
  
  Teaching and children interactions through Games, Bible studies, Reading & Writing Clubs, Music, Dance & Drama, counselling and moral change,
  
  Teach and support in Hygiene and Sanitation from personal to family and community level for a better health.
  
  Teach and help community women in modern Agriculture, employable skills like tailoring, crafts and weaving, savings & planning plus many other activities
  
  In our office, one could share important skills and knowledges to help us grow more like computer skills, management skills, photography and videography, fundraising and advocacy etc.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  would love to learn German and French
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  Accommodation

  We do have Self contained Rooms for visitors with a warm bath on request within our humble home and We don't charge volunteers for Accommodation, Wi-Fi, Food and travel in & around our town

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  What else ...

  We do have a Sedan car as our means of transport which do airport pick up & Drop off plus the necessary movement around and tours within the country and its available for use by our volunteers with the help of our driver.
  
  During free time one can have a walk or ride a bicycle or jump on a motorbike around the village with guidance of a staff and free to have social time as one may wish to.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Cats and Dogs

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4 hours a day, 4 days a week