Join our community-led mission in Gomba district, Uganda

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  Description

  We are a registered nonprofit community based organization working to support the welfare of disadvantaged and less privileged children in Gomba district of Uganda. We provide them with love, hope, basic education, scholastic materials, self-reliance skills, clothes and food. We are Samuel and wife Lucy both teachers by profession and are the co-founders of this organization. As teachers of primary school, we work full time with children and we strive to see that they attain basic education.
  
  Children in Gomba district face many challenges that hinder them from going to school. Like poverty, moving long distances to schools, lack of scholastic materials like books, pens, pencils, geometry sets, school uniforms, shoes, clothes and school bags to carry their books. When it comes to the girl-child, they lack things like sanitary pads and this can make a girl stay at home for a week without coming to school until she gets out of that period. This makes many of those school going children to drop out and do not complete their studies.
  
  Organization Vision: To support that disadvantaged child in Gomba district become a better and responsible citizen tomorrow.
  Mission: To help the less privileged children in Gomba district with these small items that can make them achieve their goals in life.
  
  Through our friends the volunteers, together we are able to get scholastic materials, food and other basic necessities for these children and they attend school with confidence and a smile on their faces. A part from classroom teaching activities, we promote kids talents through sports and agricultural skills so that they can supplement on the food grown at their respective homes and schools hence reducing the hunger syndrome. We also instill in our children the importance of respecting nature, care for the environment, and actively participate in tree planting initiatives.
  
  We call upon volunteers that are willing to support the disadvantaged children in rural schools to come and support us. As we join hands together, we can change the learning environment of these children, their thinking about matters of the world, and giving them hope plus the purpose of living.
  
  We work in primary schools of Gomba district but if a volunteer wants to get the experience of a high school, we can link you up to the ones in the community. Our schools are all located in rural village areas where we have no electricity. But our volunteers sleep in Kanoni town which has electricity, tapped water and internet network. We use Okada (motorcycles) to travel to schools and coming back to Kanoni town daily.
  
  Workawayer benefits.
  
  1. Workwayers will immerse themselves in a real Ugandan cultural experience totally different from the culture where you are coming from.
  
  2. Visitors will enjoy eating the local food prepared by Lucy such as Matooke, Cassava, Sweet potatoes, beans, cabbage, peanut source as well as learning how to prepare and cook these local meals.
  
  3. You will interact directly with the children, Play different games with them, teach them, paint with them, sing with them and do a lot of creative work with them.
  
  4. You will visit the local farmers and adventure the type of tools used for gardening as well as harvesting coffee and learning how to uproot cassava if you are interested in farming activities.
  
  5. You will enjoy nature, the green environment around Gomba community and climbing the hills surrounding Kanoni town at a free cost.
  
  6. Workwayers will benefit free entry to our nearby local bars and enjoy the tasty Ugandan bears and soft drinks at a cheap cost.
  
  7. Workwayers will be linked to authentic Safaris who will transport them to water falls, game parks and other tourist centers in the country.
  
  8. You will get a chance of visiting the source of River Nile at Jinja and this is the longest river in Africa and the world at large.
  
  9. You will enjoy the evening soccer with the community kids as well as adults. Here you will be discussing and learning a lot of Ganda the most spoken language in Uganda.
  
  10. At the end of your volunteering stay period, you will get a recognition certificate for the activities and support rendered to the kids.
  
  11. Workawayers who are interested in exploring church activities are also welcome to adventure how people worship, praise and dedicate themselves to the Lord in Uganda. Here a workawayer interested in preaching Christianity is welcome too.
  
  12. Uganda has 11% of the World’s Bird species. You will be in position to see Birds every single day.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Teaching

  Light gardening

  Creative DIY projects

  Farmstay help

  Hospitality/Tourism

  Light maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Interests

  

  Culture

  

  Self development

  

  Technology

  

  Charity work

  

  Music

  

  Cycling

  

  Nature

  

  Team sports

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Books

  

  Writing

  

  Photography
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Here we greet people in the morning, say good morning or hello, hi in form of greeting, putting a smile on the face.
  
  You will enjoy eating the local food prepared by Lucy such as Matooke, Cassava, Sweet potatoes, nsujju, beans, cabbage, peanut source as well as learning how to prepare and cook these meals.
  
  Volunteers who prefer to change meals from the one prepared by Lucy, we have some restaurants for special meals at a little cost in Kanoni town.
  
  Workawayers will get a chance of learning a new language that is Ganda the most spoken language in Uganda as well as teaching kids your language through play, interaction, storytelling and conversations.
  
  You will learn to prepare Matooke the most eaten food in Central Uganda. This involves peeling, cooking for those who loves cooking. You will also learn to cook using charcoal or firewood and here you will teach us how to prepare your best dish if you are interested.
  
  Workawayers who fancy tourism, will get a chance of visiting the beautiful scenes that make up Uganda. They will visit the source of River Nile, Mountain Ruenzori, Murchison falls, different lakes, rivers, game parks, the Uganda museum and many more.
  
  Workawayers will also experience the various cultural dances like Kiganda dance, kadodi dance and so many more. Here you will learn how to dress when going to dance a cultural dance.
  
  You will learn different cultural costumes like Gomesi, Kikooyi, for women then Kanzu, Lubugo for men and when do we put on each of the mentioned clothes.

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  Registered charity

  This host is a registered charity in their country and is looking for volunteers to help with their project(s).

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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 welcome workawayers 18 years and above who are fully interested in working with children of low class. Workawayers who are willing to support the less privileged and disadvantaged children. Workawayers who are ready to work in rural village schools. People who love to uplift others and make this world a better place.
  
  Workawayers who work to promote the UN sustainability goals such as Quality Education, Zero Hunger, No Poverty, Climate action and others. We welcome ideas that can help our community get out of this mental retardation and work for progress.
  
  Workawayers who are flexible and willing to adapt to work in a new environment totally far different from that of their respective home land. We are interested in volunteers who love the green environment and are interested in planting trees.
  
  Also needed are workawayers who have computer skills, social media management skills, fundraising skills and those who can link us to organizations that can support vulnerable children in developing countries especially with scholastic materials, food and nutrition, school infrastructure and self help projects.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Luganda, Ganda: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  English, German , Spanish , Swedish
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  Accommodation

  Our accommodation is in Kanoni town where we have electricity, water and a small space where workawayers can enjoy fresh air. Bedrooms are available with mattresses, bed sheets and mosquito nets. A visitor is served three meals a day and that is black tea in the morning at 8:00am plus a snack, lunch at 1:00pm and super at 7:30pm all East African time.
  
  We serve mostly our local food such as matooke, cassava, sweet potatoes, posho, beans, cabbages and groundnuts. We offer our volunteer's breakfast, lunch and dinner. In case a visitor wants something special, restaurants are available in Kanoni town for those in need of special meals at a small cost.
  
  We ask for a small contribution of 7 Euros per day to cover the cost of the volunteer's breakfast, lunch and dinner. This has been approved by the Workaway team.

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  What else ...

  We have our daily community local market where volunteers can buy some fresh fruits like mangoes, pineapples, oranges, carrots, tomatoes and so many others.
  
  Ugandan beers taste so good with an excellent smell, so some volunteers tend to get more excited and drink too much. As a visitor, you should drink responsibly because sometimes we get embarrassed to carry you back to your room.
  
  Women in Uganda love so much the white colour, when they see the “Muzungu man” they treat him like a King who has visited the area. Please don’t allow many women in your room. Not everybody can be trusted.
  
  Every volunteer is free to create friends, but also women volunteers should not allow every man to enter your room for your security. Please take time to select the best and trusted friend.
  
  Some volunteers feel pity for the local people and they go the extra mile of borrowing money in form of starting capital to these community members without the ‘Host’ knowing about it. When these people fail to pay back then the one who gave out the money narrates the whole story to the host and ask him to intervene. When I was in Uganda I borrowed this person money, please tell him to pay back. Sometimes it becomes difficult for me to pressure a community member to pay back when I did not know the agreement you made at first.
  
  My piece of advice to the volunteers is that, we welcome all the support to the community members, the children, the women and elderly but please do not borrow them money. This is very risky and many of them cannot afford to pay back. Please protect your image plus that of the organization.
  
  There is an opportunity for investment:
  We welcome those Workawayers who would like to do serious business investment in Uganda. Please be open with us and we take you to the right government offices that will give you the necessary support needed for you to invest in Uganda.
  
  Please don’t try to do hidden agreements with some wise community members who will sweet talk you to join them and do business hence putting your money at risk. Uganda is a good country that give maximum support to the investors.

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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 host digital nomads

  It is advisable to move with your own digital gadgets to use. In Uganda electricity can go off at any time so we also use solar systems.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  This host charges a fee

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  Why does Workaway allow some hosts to charge a fee?

  
  

  Workaway provides opportunities for non-monetary cultural exchanges where hosts provide food and accommodation in return for help from Workawayers. In some exceptional cases, a small fee/ donation request (typically no more than 5 dollars per day) may be approved for hosts such as registered charities with a history of positive volunteer feedback. Any fee must directly go to the charity and can only be used to cover the volunteers' food costs. This will be clearly marked on the host's listing.
  

  Listings by agents, "middle-men" or projects that appear to profit from a volunteer's stay are strictly prohibited. Any fees must be discussed and approved in advance by the Workaway team.

  7 EUR/day for food

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