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Hello, Greetings from Uganda.
It's Esther and Janet lovely twins that started up an organization after being touched by lives of 3 children we met without assistance to go to school. On following up these children, we discovered that two of them were orphans and were living with their grandmother.
Having seen the suffering and appealing situation of the children, we dedicated our efforts towards children of similar situations. We tried to pay school fees for the first 3 children but as the number gradually increased to 8 and later 33 children, it became expensive to pay school fees for them all.
And with that, we decided to start a Children's Community Library at our home to be able to build a future modal learning center for children who can't afford going to School.
The organization has blended it's activities that include a library with children's books, mentorship services for the children, proving health care services for these children as well as other basic needs including cloths and children's entertainment to enable them appreciate life.
We will be delighted to receive travellers that would love to engage and teach the children at the library.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Elderly Companionship
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainablity goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Uganda is a very beautiful and interesting country and is know as the Pearl of Africa.
Our location is so beautiful with so many tourist sites such as lakes, rivers, parks, zoo, and a beautiful social community that love sharing different cultures like languages, dances and many others.
Looking not so far to a place called Kabale that is blessed with a very beautiful lake called lake Bunyonyi that has so many Islands and one of the deepest lake. Travellers will be able to visit all these places and will reside at an Island called Sharp Island where my aunty works.
We shall use a boat to travel on water and have activities such as bird watching, walking, Canoe trekking, boat cruise, hiking, visiting the pygimies community, zip lining and many others.
This will have our travellers have fun visiting Uganda and reaching many places.
Help
The organization engages in many activities that will keep the volunteers much occupied like reading story books to the children, teaching, aiding in reading and writing, helping in the gardens, doing home visits for children that can't reach the library to read and learn, teaching children life skills, engaging children in activities like sports, music and drama.
We would also like the travellers to help in fundraising for a community library building, a school where the children can study from and a home where they can find proper and safe shelter.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
We have a three bedroomed house with two bathrooms, a living room, dinning room and kitchen. These will be able to accomodate a couple or single volunteers. Three meals will be provided a day e.g Breakfast, lunch and dinner comprising of our local dishes like matooke, yams, sweet potatoes, Irish and many more and volunteers can contribute to thier dietary specifications if they want. Vistors are also free to cook and prepare meals of standard choices. The community has running water and electricity. Bathing is by use of a shower or bucket and have both indoor toilets and outside pit latrines.
Our organization is not planning to ask for any fee from the workawayers.
What else ...
Our country being the Pearl of Africa, we have a lot of activities and tourist sites. Tourist can enjoy hiking, swimming, playing games with the students and many others. The organization is also near Lutembe Beach which attracts different species of birds from the entire world in November. We also have Botanical gardens Entebbe which is a historical ground for many species of trees, plants and flowers. The main and easiest means of transportation is the local motorcycles called "boda bodas" and local vehicles called taxis.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (11)
From the moment they arrived, they were Jolly, smiley, happy people and quickly adopted to our the routines.
They were so helpful both in the library, around the house (clean and very tidy), loved, cared… read more
When we were contacted by Bruno and he said he wanted to come with his Matt and Luic, our first reaction, thoughts and questions were like woow!!!, How will our kids react when they see little kids of their age come help, play and learn from them.
To us this was the best experience especially for the kids to have an… read more
I've spent two great weeks there with my two kids (6 and 9), with Janet, Esther and the lovely kids there. I've directly fallen in love with the kids. They have such a big heart full of love, joy and generosity. I've been used living in countries with African cultures but this stay just outreached what I might have expected. Jane and… read more
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From the moment they arrived, they were Jolly, smiley, happy people and quickly adopted to our the routines.
They were so helpful both in the library, around the house (clean and very tidy), loved, cared… read more
When we were contacted by Bruno and he said he wanted to come with his Matt and Luic, our first reaction, thoughts and questions were like woow!!!, How will our kids react when they see little kids of their age come help, play and learn from them.
To us this was the best experience especially for the kids to have an… read more
I've spent two great weeks there with my two kids (6 and 9), with Janet, Esther and the lovely kids there. I've directly fallen in love with the kids. They have such a big heart full of love, joy and generosity. I've been used living in countries with African cultures but this stay just outreached what I might have expected. Jane and… read more
We enjoyed everyday of her stay, she was super helpful with the library and school,..always organized lesson plans for her class… read more
The twins are lovely girls who… read more
Esther and Janet are very lovely and generous people and as caring hosts exceeding my expectations. Sharing is so very much in their blood, it is overwhelming. They also were there to answer all arising questions and extremely… read more
