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Help our community and share your skills in Mbale, Uganda

  • Última atividade : 17 mar. 2025

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  2025 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: 1 semana ou menos

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  • Descrição

    Descrição

    My Name is Mukhwana. The director and founder of the Centre. I am passionate about children born with down-syndrome disability and other vulnerable children. We are currently creating awareness in the community, counseling and doing community visits where the needy and vulnerable children are.
    We do the following activities.
    * We support these children to acquire education and we create social interaction with other children.
    * Reading, writing and drawing.
    * We create time for playing games like football, netball, skipping the ropes and mind games.
    * Teach them Bible stories, guidance and counseling.
    * Teach them art and craft skills like making bracelets, bungles.
    * Personal hygiene and general cleanness for healthy living.
    * We also train the community groups (women, men and youth) with micro-finance entrepreneurship skills.

    OUR TESTIMONY.
    Our daughter Esther (third born) is born with Down syndrome and we discovered it at three months. It was long after she was born. This condition was not detected at birth and the news caused a lot fear in us, we wondered how the relatives and the community will look at us. However through research, counseling from friends and prayers we managed to over come the fear and trauma.

    Many parents here believe that this disability is caused by bad luck or witchcraft. It’s also true that children with downs syndrome are sometimes hidden, abandoned or neglected by their parents and encounter discrimination in the community because of the above mis-conception. As a result, these children find it hard to integrate with fellow children in school, places of worship and other community activities due to fear of shame from the public.

    We are the voice of hope to parents of children with disabilities and going through the same fear and challenges like we did. We are here to encourage children born with Down syndrome that they are like other normal children. They need love; care and patience because they have the potential to achieve great milestones in every aspect of life.

    We have three locally paid staff.

    1) The Social worker. This one does the community visits and sensitization and teaching entrepreneurship skills and other social human needs and also does counseling.
    2) The Nurse. This one attends to the children's general health needs and makes referrals to where necessary.
    3) The Teacher. This teaches the reading and writing skills and also sounds/verbal training for the children with down syndrome. we have plans of hiring another teacher to help the needy and orphans also with reading, writing skills, singing and playing with them

    This team doesn't work alone but along side other local volunteers to achieve our goals.

    FUTURE PLANS
    We need support to;
    1. We plan to Build a special needs school for children with Down syndrome in order to help them have a conducive learning Environment without any effect.
    2. To see Down syndrome, orphans and needy children acquire education through paying for them school fees and other basic needs like books, uniform, pens pencils among others.
    3. Establish a skills Centre/vocational school for the teenage mothers to acquire the necessary skills for self sustainability hence fighting poverty.
    children.
    4.Have a children’s community Centre with play items to help them develop their mind set for social development.
    5. Acquire demonstration farm for farming skills and also grow our own food and attaining food security.
    6. Create owners Income Generating Activities in order to raise support for children’s needs and attaining organization future self sustainability.

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Trabalho beneficente
    Projetos artísticos
    Prática de idiomas
    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Companhia para idosos
    Ensino
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas
    Ajuda com computadores/internet
  • Interesses

    Interesses

    Camping
    Fitness
    Cultura
    Fazenda
    Trabalho beneficente
    Escrever
    História
    Cuidar de plantas
    Música
    Faça você mesmo
    Arte e design
    Fotografia
    Idiomas
    Jardinagem
    Culinária e comida
    Blogs
    Arquitetura
    Desenho e pintura
    Yoga/bem-estar
    Esportes de equipe
    Naturaleza
    Montanhas
    Dança
    Atividades ao ar livre
    Praia
    Caminhada
    Ciclismo
    Esportes de aventura
  • Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos da ONU
    Erradicar a pobreza
    Erradicar a fome
    Saúde de qualidade
    Educação de qualidade
    Igualdade de género
    Água potável e saneamento
    Energias renováveis e acessíveis
    Trabalho digno e crescimento económico
    Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas
    Reduzir as desigualdades
    Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis
    Produção e consumo sustentáveis
    Ação climática
    Proteger a vida marinha
    Proteger a vida terrestre
    Paz, justiça et instituições eficazes
    Parcerias para a implementação dos objetivos
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    as a Workwayers you will not only support the organisation but you will have an opportunity of seeing the great sights of our Country Gifted by Nature. bellow are some of the things you will be able to learn,

    Appreciate our tradition cultural practices of circumcision of youth passage to adulthood called "imbalu".
    Learn how we carry out marriage ceremonies in African tradition
    Learning our local languages dialect
    Visit famous historical sites at Museum.
    Visit Water falls from mount Elgon Slopes of Siipi Fall, Sisiyi Falls
    Go Hiking and Mount Elgon site seeing
    Experience use of motor-cycle transport called "Boda boda"
    Learn how to prepare different delicious local meals like, "matooke, malewa" and Chapati.
    Learn Typical African home setting and parenting style.
    Learn about the different African beliefs and traditions.

  • Projetos que envolvem crianças

    Projetos que envolvem crianças

    Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    We would like support in the following areas ;
    1. CHILD SUPPORT PROGRAME
    Creating community awareness about down syndrome, Counseling the children with disability and their parents.
    Teach children on reading and writing
    Teach Children the Rymes.
    Support and play with children during Saturday
    Teaching language and reading skills to children
    Special needs teacher for children with disability and needy/Vulnerable Children.
    2. SKILLS TRAINING
    Teaching Vocational skills to the youths.
    Training Women and men in Village saving groups( Micro-finance skills)
    Entrepreneurship/ business skills, to improve on group/ individual income.
    Teach Art and Craft to children.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Inglês: Fluente

    Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
    Kiswahili Luganda Lumasaba German French Italian

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    we have one spacious visitors room in our house for accommodation (visitors)
    We have plenty of local food stuff that helpers can learn to prepare. eg Matooke, Malewa, millet bread. etc.

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    Visit our local churches
    visiting our local markets
    Mount climbing on mount Elgon Slopes
    Visiting Water falls from mount elgon sipi falls.
    Learn Lumasaba local dialect.
    Playing with children.

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    Mais alguns detalhes

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    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Mais de 2

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 199151659241

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A imagem mostra um grupo de pessoas reunidas, algumas segurando bebidas, em um ambiente externo amplo, provavelmente um parque ou campo, com algumas árvores e uma cerca ao fundo.
A imagem mostra um grupo de crianças e adultos reunidos em um círculo, com alguns indivíduos se destacando, cercados por um ambiente natural, transmitindo um senso de comunidade e conexão.

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