Join our charity organization and community school in Fort Portal, Uganda

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  Description

  We are a registered non profit community based charity organization, working with disadvantaged children and less privileged mothers in Fortpotal western Uganda near Kibale National park .
  We provide them with love, hope, basic education, scholastic materials, self-reliance skills, clothes and food.
  
  My name is Toris co-founder of this organization that helps and supports orphans, disadvantaged and less privileged children and mothers in Fortpotal attain the required education and self-reliance skills. Am social worker by profession and work full time with children and mothers.
  
  Children 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 bags to carry their books, since many loss parents especially fathers trying to carry out illegal activities in the forest like porching and are killed by guides .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.
  
  That’s how this organization comes in to help these less privileged children by providing those small things that can keep them in school, complete their studies, and become better citizens of tomorrow.
  
  Organization Vision: To support that disadvantaged child become a better and responsible citizen tomorrow.
  
  Mission: To help the less privileged children in Fortpotal with these small items that can make them achieve their goals in life.
  
  Through our friends the volunteers and well-wisher, we are able to get scholastic materials and food for these children and they attend school with a smile on their faces. A part from classroom teaching activities, we promote their talents through sports, wood curving, music dance and drama ,craft making and agricultural skills so that they can supplement on the food grown at their respective homes and schools hence reducing the hunger syndrome.
  
  That is why we call upon more volunteers that are willing to support the less privileged children and mothers in rural areas of Uganda achieve their goals of life 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 have a community pre-primary school (nursery school) where a volunteer can get experience but if you want experience of a high school near Kibale National park still we can link you up to the ones in the community.People in the area are friendly and they always welcome visitors. They speak English, Rukinga and Rutooro languages.
  
  Workawayers who are interested in exploring church activities should also come and see how people worship, praise and dedicate themselves to the Lord in Uganda. aworkawayer interested in preaching Christianity is welcome too
  
  We believe in:
  Education for all
  Gender equality and empowerment
  Social justice and community development
  Breaking the cycle of poverty through opportunity
  
  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.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Elderly Companionship

  Teaching

  Light gardening

  Creative DIY projects

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  Hospitality/Tourism

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Interests

  

  Camping

  

  Adventure sports
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  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.

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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

  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

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent

  This 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.
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  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 ask for a small contribution of 6 USD per day to cover the cost of the volunteer's breakfast, lunch and Dinner
  
  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.

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  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.

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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

  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

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Space for parking for any type of the vehicle

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  Can possibly accept pets

  No

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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.

  6 USD/day to cover food costs

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