Profile information
Host rating
100 %
Last replied
13 Apr 2026
Reply rate
100.0 %
Usually responds within 4 days
Feedback
9
Email verified
Badges (3)
Details
Description
We warmly welcome volunteers to Mama Africa Charity Home Foundation, a small community school and children’s home near Kibale Forest National Park in Fortportal,Uganda. We support vulnerable children and at-risk families through education, care, and empowerment. Volunteers help us teach, inspire children, and share cultural exchange while experiencing real rural Ugandan life close to nature.
We are a registered community-based non-profit organization supporting vulnerable children and families near Kibale Forest National Park in Fort Portal, Uganda.
For over 4 years, we have been working with children who are orphaned, vulnerable, or unable to access stable education due to poverty, loss of parents, and economic challenges. We currently support over 100 children through our small charity school and community home.
Our mission is simple: education, care, and empowerment for a better future.
Our vision
We believe in:
Education for all
Gender equality and empowerment
Social justice and community development
Breaking the cycle of poverty through opportunity
👧🏽 Our work in the community
We focus on:
Orphaned and vulnerable children
Street children and child-headed households
Teenage mothers and at-risk girls
Elderly people in need of support
Children affected by health challenges (HIV/AIDS, sickle cell, etc.)
We believe education is the strongest tool to break the cycle of poverty.
📍 Location
We are located in Fort Portal, Western Uganda, near Kibale Forest National Park.
10 minutes from Kanyanchu Visitor Centre
Close to chimpanzee trekking and nature tourism sites
🙏 Important note
We are a small non-profit organization working with limited resources. Volunteers are part of our family and we appreciate any support, skills, and ideas shared with the community.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Elderly Companionship
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Camping
Adventure sports
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
They will learn new things ,interact with new workers, new working environment, culture, gain experiences and skills from our works, enjoy fresh foods, fruits and fresh water and do tourism areas in Uganda.
A beautiful gift will be given to a volunteer as a sign of appreciation.
At the end of your volunteering session ,we shall offer you a certificate of merit which will help build your career as an up coming social worker.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
What volunteers will do
We welcome volunteers with different skills. Depending on your strengths, you may help with:
🎓 Teaching & Children Activities
English practice and communication skills
Music, art, drama, sports and games
Creative learning and storytelling
Basic classroom support
💻 Digital & Media Support
Social media content creation
Photography and video of school activities
Simple website or online presence support
🌱 Community & Cultural Exchange
Cultural activities with children
Life skills and mentorship
Supporting women and youth empowerment activities
🏫 School Support
Assisting teachers in daily activities
Helping organize learning materials
Supporting creative and play-based learning
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
I like language exchange and culture exchange, teaching my language to gusts and more so learning new language from them.
Accommodation
Accommodation & meals
Volunteers
Currently we provide free accommodation for workawayers in a shared house with different private rooms.
You will not probably not enjoy the luxury of your home country.
Rain showers are not common here, instead ,you will learn to clean your self with a bucket of water and soap (it's not difficult, and will even enjoy and become more cleaner afterwards.
Likewise ,clothes and bedsheets are hand washed and ironed.
Food.
Workawayers will enjoy their meals in the dinning room, often with family members.
Simple dishes are prepared by a maid.
These are dishes include sweet potatoes, beans,matooke (savory banana)porridge, rice,chapti,posho,(cornmeal porridge, cassava ,maize,some veggies and sometimes fish or meat.
We are charity organization,with small budget and voluntary donations of food are not un welcome. If you desire special meals it's up to you to purchase food in town and prepare the food.
Water
Tap water is used for washing and cooking. Drinking water is boiled but you might want to buy bottled water which is available and clean too.
The place is secure and safe,no trace passes.
Electricity.
The place is equipped with electricity,this means that you can charge your phone,laptop, tablet, power bank but not at the same time.
Internet.
Currently there is no Wi-Fi at the place. Workawayers are advised to purchase a Ugandan Sim cards with Internet bundles.
There are different providers of Sim cards with Internet bundles and minutes but Mtn and airtel are most common.
You can purchase a sim card upon arrival in Entebbe or Kampala, but there are also possibilities in Fort portal
Sim card including registration free will cost you around 20000UGX,(5,44USD,4,480EUR).the Ugandan mobile system works with mobile money that you put on your phone as it were mobile wallet.
Mobile money can be used to buy internet bundles, to call or to send messages and it's also possible to withdraw or transfer money through your phone.
In general,monthly 10G internet bundles will cost you 50000UGX(13,59USD,12EUR).
In order to use social media, in Uganda, you need to pay taxes to Ugandan government. Monthly social media tax is 6000UGX(1,63USD,1,44EUR)
In Fort portal there are many Internet cafes to be found ,or if you want to relax while browsing, you can order a coffee in a hotel with Wi-Fi zone.
Transport.
There are different ways of traveling from one place to another in Uganda.
Within cities (such as Kampala) uber and bodaboda are used,in towns people rely on bodaboda motorcycles between towns buses and matatus are used for
transport.
Aboda boda is a motorcycle(motor bike) that functions as a taxi ,carrying up to 3 people.
It's often a pleasant ride with a possibility of observing environment with a cooling breeze in your hair.To avoid ulgy discussions after the ride, the price for a bodaboda is needs to be established before mounting the bike. With time ,you will understand the pricing and comfortable bargain with your bodaboda driver.
Clothing.
Many travelers ask what clothes they are supposed to bring to Uganda. Of course, it depends on what you're most comfortable in. However, do not think that because this is Africa you needn't bring anything fashionable. People in Uganda dress very well! Colorful dresses, good jeans, branded shirts, shining shoes; Ugandans like to look good. It's possible to wear short clothing like skirts, dresses and shorts, just leave your sexy hot pants home. At the accommodation, you'll probably want to wear thin, short clothing and flip-flops. Keep in mind that items are cheaper here and that you can even have your custom clothing tailored here. You will pick a fabric and explain or even draw what you would like to have (jumpsuit, trousers, jacket) and voila: your personal design clothing.
What else ...
Uganda is a very beautiful and interesting country and is known as the Pearl of Africa.
Our location offers many tourist sites such as lakes, rivers, parks, a zoo, and a beautiful social community that love sharing their culture.
Being located not so far from a Kampala our capital city and Entebbe.
We are also happy to arrange your trips to the different safaris in Uganda.
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi National park
Kibale national park
-Marchion falls trip
-Crate lakes
-Mount rwenzori
- Queen Elizabeth National park
- Mburo National park
- Kidepo National park
- Mountain Sabinyo for Golden Monkeys trekking.
- And so many more different tourist attractions in our country.
NOTE: Due to receiving a lot of requests from different volunteers, we ask that once the volunteers send a message and get a reply from us, that they can confirm their dates as soon as possible so what we can plan properly. It is very important to us.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We welcome online volunteers as well as those who want to come and volunteer with us physically in Uganda now that airports have been reopened volunteers can come and work with us physically. On line volunteers can volunteer with us by designing ,organising webinars,organising fundraising on line,agriculture innovativation on our behalf and a lots more exciting opportunities just in touch
Space for parking camper vans
Space for parking for any type of the vehicle
Can possibly accept pets
No
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Chat with Workawayers who've visited this host
Feedback (5)
I've stayed only 8 days with Toris at her mother's house, Juliet. If I knew, I would have stayed 1 month.
Juliet has created by herself a school with the lowest fees so many kids could attend it.
Also, she is welcoming at her house orphans with all her heart.
About the school: it has only 2 rooms for about 50 lovely… read more
she made me like a family.. was an incredible experience.. unique expierience.
I love Uganda and my second family!
the children are very kind and so sweet 😍 and Toris organised me the trip in Queen Elizabeth national park, Maurchisol falls, and Bwindi impenetrable forest! I… read more
Photos
Chat with Workawayers who've visited this host
Feedback
These are extra optional ratings when members leave feedback. The average rating left for each option is displayed.
Accuracy of profile:
(4.4)
Cultural exchange:
(4.8)
Communication:
(4.6)
I've stayed only 8 days with Toris at her mother's house, Juliet. If I knew, I would have stayed 1 month.
Juliet has created by herself a school with the lowest fees so many kids could attend it.
Also, she is welcoming at her house orphans with all her heart.
About the school: it has only 2 rooms for about 50 lovely… read more
she made me like a family.. was an incredible experience.. unique expierience.
I love Uganda and my second family!
the children are very kind and so sweet 😍 and Toris organised me the trip in Queen Elizabeth national park, Maurchisol falls, and Bwindi impenetrable forest! I… read more
