Join our charity home and school near Kibale forest, Fort Portal, Uganda

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  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.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Bénévolat

  Projets artistiques

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Compagnie pour pers. âgée

  Enseignement

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide dans une ferme

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Accueil / tourisme

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Camping

  

  Sports d'aventure
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  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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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  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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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  I like language exchange and culture exchange, teaching my language to gusts and more so learning new language from them.
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  Hébergement

  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.

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  Autres infos...

  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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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les 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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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Space for parking for any type of the vehicle

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  No

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

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