Many Countries in Africa offer volunteer programs in different community development projects. One of the countries known for that is Uganda.

Kitara Foundation’s Uganda Volunteer Program offers the BEST way to TRAVEL and EXPLORE Destination Uganda in an AFFORDABLE manner. 

The program gives you an opportunity to contribute to social, economic and community development projects as a volunteer and also opens your door to travel the country as a local tourist and explore what Uganda has to offer to its visitors.

Experience traditional Ugandan life and participate in daily activities such as visiting elderly villagers, collecting water from a well, teaching children in and outside classrooms, assisting in the brick making programs, feeding animals, health outreach programs, poultry house construction and repairs, home repairs, health/HIV/AIDS workshops, youth education, animal rearing, water and sanitation, waterway construction and project planning and management or other skills that can help us transform communities.

Discover the nature wonders of the region, while doing meaningful and rewarding community work. This is a great opportunity for you to explore life in rural Africa, live and work amongst the locals and realize one person can make a difference.

Understand that the culture in Uganda is quite different from what you are accustomed to. Bring with you an easy-going, open-minded and relaxed attitude.

Discover Uganda first-hand, since you will be living with a Ugandan host while serving as the family’s and community’s teacher and learner at the same time.

This is a fantastic opportunity for students, high school graduates as well as professionals who want to reach for a world beyond their horizon. It’s a total immersion into one of the world’s oldest and richest cultures, it is an adventure, a challenge, an investment in a volunteer’s future.

Experience a wonderful new perspective of this incredible part of the country. Make an important contribution, whatever your skills may be, by improving standards of living, offering skills and giving confidence to local people that comes from being able to communicate with an international native.

Leave a mark and a name in Uganda when you reach out to the young people in schools or in community and provide your practical skills for their future carriers.

VOLUNTEER PROJECTS INCLUDE: 👇

✔️ Teaching Languages

✔️ Teaching Social Subjects

✔️ Environment Conservation

✔️ Farm Work /Agriculture

✔️ Women Empowerment

✔️ Sports Coaching / Arts

✔️ Medical Electives/Healthcare

✔️ Administration/Management

✔️ Office /Clerical Work  

✔️ Microfinance /Business Support

✔️ Youth Empowerment 

✔️ Community Development

✔️ Construction/ Building 

✔️ Community Outreaches /Culture

WE PROVIDE: 👇

✅ Comfortable Accommodation

✅ Delicious 3 Meals Daily

✅ Airport Transfers

✅ Discounted Tours & Safaris

Meet Other Like Minded Volunteers & Travelers. Visit, Volunteer in Uganda and Make a Lasting Positive Impact! 

Join the fabulous environmental and cultural conservation campaign programs such ‘‘Keep it green’’ and ‘‘Plant your age’’. See https://kitararcc.com/2023/04/11/environment-conservation-volunteering-in-kitara-uganda/ or https://kitararcc.com/2023/05/05/give-that-dollar-to-save-nature-on-this-world-environment-day-2023/

DON’T FORGET YOU WILL VISIT: 👇

👍 Mt Rwenzori National and Rwenzori Ranges

👍 Sempaya Hot Springs

👍 Lake Mburo National Park

👍 Queen Elizabeth National Park

👍 Murchison Falls National Park

👍 Guerrilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

👍 Guerrilla Trekking in Mgahinga National Park

👍 Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park

👍 Amabereganyinamwiru Caves

ACCOMODAION: Can be in a host family or at one of our volunteer homes. Check at https://kitararcc.com/2023/04/05/biiso-home-for-volunteers-and-community-tourists-in-buliisa-oil-land-of-uganda/ and https://kitararcc.com/2023/04/05/home-of-volunteers-and-community-tourists-in-fort-portal/

WHEN: Program is Open All Year Round

DURATION: 1 Week Min – 24 Weeks Max

LOCATION: Fort Portal and Buliisa in Kitara Region, Western Uganda

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Email Us: contacts@kitararcc.com

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Community Development Program

You will have the opportunity to try different roles and projects, dependent on your interests and skills. These volunteer opportunities do not require specialized skills (although these would be an advantage), and we accept volunteers for both short and long-term placements, all the year round. Volunteers certainly gain an amazing life experience from their participation in our placement program. On first arrival, most volunteers sample all the projects before selecting the tasks that suit them best.

The first few days of your placement will be orientation and adjusting to Ugandan life. After this initial period, your placement work will begin. The type of work you are involved with will be dependent on your interests, abilities, level of experience as well as your comfort levels.

One of the advantages of the Community project is that you are not limited to one job role and will have the opportunity to ‘sample’ other roles during your placement. To become involved in another projects simply inform a member of staff who will happily make any necessary arrangements.

Volunteer work side by side the locals’ in on-going projects like brick making, construction and water building projects in the community. Volunteers needed for manual labor jobs working alongside skilled and unskilled local workers.

Some tasks include farming, pig rearing, construction of the volunteer center, expansion, water well building and renovation work. Volunteers do not need prior experience, but skilled workers are very welcome. This is a very hands on, hands dirty sort of program. Enthusiasm, a good sense of humor and helping spirit are required.

Your Volunteer Responsibilities

You can play an important role in community outreach efforts, establishment of demonstration sites, teaching in schools, household mentoring and educating the community about HIV/AIDS. You can make a difference in the quality of someone’s life, and you can share important knowledge with others. The continuous cycle of Kitara Foundation volunteers working in placements like these, year after year, helps ensure that the efforts continue and progress is made.

There are many ways to get involved based on your skills and the needs of the specific community. You may be coordinating recreational activities for children whose families are affected by the HIV/AIDS, supporting medical professionals who are caring for patients directly, and assisting with in-home care and counseling, or assisting staff with training seminars and conferences.

There are several ways to make a difference by working with people in poverty infested communities:

• Teach about nutrition at at a health unit, children center and women.
• Support education through creative community outreach projects.
• Support evangelism and ministry projects in the church
• Support rural water technologies
• Support peace building and conflict resolution training
• Conduct computer training sessions
• Support Environmental protection programs
• Support palliative and home based care programs
• Serve in the refugee settlement.
• Support agriculture initiatives

Volunteers will participate in a number of community-based activities. Each day, volunteers meet at project headquarters and take part in daily briefings, develop daily strategies and follow-up on the projects’ current plans.

One of our HIV/AIDS project’s primary aim is the creation of public awareness, and volunteers will travel from village-to-village – accompanying members of the local staff – to spread information and nurse the sick. Some activities include: providing comfort through counseling and/or spiritual guidance, distributing basic supplies (such as food, soap and clothes) administering medication to alleviate symptoms such as coughing, diarrhea, as well as assisting in the building or repairing of affected clients’ homes.

Skills/Qualifications Needed

No specific qualifications are required to join this volunteer program in Western Uganda. Anyone with energy and interest in this issue can make a meaningful contribution, and all are welcome.

However, volunteers interested in particular projects should have interest in the project-related issues as well as have a passion for helping others. Patience and a willingness to share time, energy and compassion are also crucial important.

Extra activities you will not miss: Culture Village visits up and down the beautigul hills of Western Uganda,  Kibale Forest National Park which is rich and unique habitat for more than 250 species and over 300 bird species. Visits to other National Parks and Safaris such as Lake Mburo National Park, Mgahinga National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Mountains include the Muhavura ranges and Rwenzori Mountains. Water bodies include Lake George, the deepest Lake Bunyonyi, Lake Edward and many small crater lakes like Rwetera, Bunyaruguru and Nyinaburita. Western lift valley with its escarpments, and electricity generation at River Mpanga.

To volunteer in Africa contact Kitara Foundation for Regional Tourism at https://kitararcc.com/contact/