Help us around a centre for vulnerable children and learn local culture in Mbale, Uganda

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  Description

  My Name is Mukhwana David. The director and founder of Esther Links Children's Centre. I am passionate about children, living with disability, needy and vulnerable. We are currently creating awareness in the community, doing community visits where the needy and vulnerable children are so as to help them enjoy their right to education, medical and social wellbeing.
  
  We also train the community groups (women, men and youth) with micro-finance/ entrepreneurship skills for economic empowerment, to meet their daily family needs and children's needs.
  
  We have three locally paid staff.
  
  1) The Social worker. This one does the community visits and sensitization and teaching entrepreurship skills and other social human needs as may arise from time to time and also does counseling.
  2) The Nurse. This one attends to the children's general health needs and makes referrals to where necessary.
  3) The Teacher. This teaches the reading and writing skills and also sounds/verbal training for the children with down syndrome. we have plans of hiring another teacher to help the needy and orphans also with reading, writing skills, singing and playing with them
  
  This team doesn't work alone but along side other local volunteers to achieve our goals.
  
  FUTURE PLANS
  *Build a special needs school for children with Down syndrome.
  *To see Down syndrome, orphans and needy children acquire education. (school fees and scholastic materials)
  *Establish a skills Centre/vocational school for the teen mums Down syndrome, orphans and needy children.
  *Have a children’s community Centre.
  *Acquire demonstration farm for farm skills.
  * Create Income Generating Activities to raise support for children’s needs.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  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

  Appreciate our tradition cultural practices of circumcision of youth passage to adulthood called "imbalu".
  Learn how we carry out marriage ceremonies in African tradition
  Learning our local languages dialect
  Visit famous historical sites
  Visit Water falls from mount Elgon Slopes
  Do Mount climbing and site seeing
  Experience use of motor-cycle transport called "Boda boda"
  Learn how to prepare different delicious local meals like, "matooke, malewa"
  Learn Typical African home setting and parenting style.
  Learn about the different African beliefs and traditions.

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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

  We would like support in the following areas ;
  Creating community awareness about down syndrome, Counseling the children with disability and their parents.
  Teaching language and reading skills to children
  Teaching Vocational skills to the youths.
  Training Women and men in Village saving groups( Micro-finance skills)
  Entrepreneurship/ business skills, to improve on group/ individual income.
  Special needs teacher for children with disability and needy/Vulnerable Children.
  Teach Art and Craft to children.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  Lumasaba Kiswahili Luganda
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  Accommodation

  we have one spacious visitors room in our house for accommodation (visitors)

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  What else ...

  Visit our local churches
  visiting our local markets
  Mount climbing on mount Elgon Slopes
  Visiting Water falls from mount elgon sipi falls.
  Learn Lumasaba local dialect.
  Playing with children.
  We have plenty of local food stuff that helpers can learn to prepare. eg Matooke, Malewa, millet bread. etc.

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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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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 3 hours a day, 5 days a week.