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16 Mar 2025
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I’m Ibrahim Menya, 33years of age from a family of 5 born and raised in Uganda 🇺🇬 the Pearl of Africa.
I’m a graduate who studied a bachelors degree in business administration specialized in marketing.
Apparently I’m working as a tourist and safari driver guide and founder of our community foundation.
I lost my father in 2000 at the age of 10 and this left me with no hope of having no further education as my father didn’t have a proper source of income since he was a peasant farmer. My mother sells bananas and this has always been her from the Time I was born. Life became very difficult for her to look after us as she didn’t get much to support us at school.
In 2004, at our primary school , we got a chance to have an internee from Notre Dame university in the US called Ben Wilson who came as Mathematics teacher, because he got to know about my family and I was the best at his subject, he managed to get me a sponsor on his return to the US who supported me with my education fees to some level because I could miss classes for having no books, and also failing to pay school fees. This prompted me to work so hard later that I had to pay for my university.
When I started working as a safari guide, we could come across so many kids living the same life I lived, walking long distances bare footed to school, staying hungry during school time, having no school materials like books and pens.
This touched me a lot and thought of starting up an organization, its' name means “ Rise” and the main purpose is to help improve and support the lives of people especially school going children.
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
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Associating with new people from a different culture will help them learn develop a stronger relationship including new African culture that they may not be used to and also help them introduce their new culture to the community people and this would be a great experience to them.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We would like to have all kinds of help needed to gear up our community schools with necessary skills like reading , teaching, art , sports and games, health among others as most teachers here take on classes in our local language which doesn’t help children much since they’re examined in English.
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
The accommodation available is a stand alone 2bedroom house self contained
The workawayers will be offered three meals a day.
What else ...
Helpers can have a chance to tour around the country depending on the time they have with us, like going for wild life in different national parks of the country, visit a few sites like source of the Nile, water rafting, see falls among others during their time off
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
