Volunteering
can be work that comforts the heart of the distressed and one of the ways
of giving back to the community through sharing your time, skills,
knowledge, experiences and resources towards the betterment of welfare, social
and economic development of the entire world community. We volunteer
because we receive training and become qualified to do new work.
Through
volunteering you take part in reaching millions of disadvantaged un reached
territories of the world including war affected regions and post war remote,
cultural, adventure, and educational areas.
Interning with UISAT UGANDAINTERNATIONALSCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND TOURISM offers several internship
opportunities to undergraduate and graduate level college students to support
our office team members during the fall, spring and summer semesters. Interns
are ambassadors, event-planners, fundraisers, grant-writers, outreach
representatives, researchers, translators and much more. Our internship
opportunities are located both in Kampalaand SEMUTO, LUWERO DISTRICT to support our headquarters’ staff.
Volunteers/ interns needed
UISAT is
recruiting volunteers from a wide range of professional backgrounds and would
like to hear from anyone from any corner of the globe willing to promote
HIV/AID’s, counseling, sensitization, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, health,
development and prevent illnesses in the community.
UISAT wishes to receive the following volunteers/ interns
·Teachers, Peer
trainers, Peer counselors, Counselors, Dentists, Doctors, Trainers in Music
dance and drama (MDD), Organizational administratives, Proposal writers/
resource mobilization, Computer training, Website designing, Carpentry skills,
Builders/ constructors, Technical/vocational trainers, Games/sports (soccer/
net ball) etc
Note:We do not recognize expertise to
a greater extent, but visionariesand people merely with a big heart of charity, all volunteers/
interns are given priority.
Expected volunteers/ interns
Every
individual qualifies to participate in UISAT activities although some projects
like www.uisatworkcamps.cfsites.org require participants of 18years and
above
·Volunteers with
a desire to help people living with HIV/AID’s, orphans, vulnerable children,
youth, girls, elderly men and women, families etc
·Open minded,
positive attitudes, and warm hearts ready to interact with other people of
different cultural backgrounds.
·Willing to take
up various tasks and willing to share his /her experiences cultures among other
participants.
·Flexible and
with the ability to accept/adapt to living in simple conditions, taste local
foods
·Ready to do
light or heavy manual work on different activities and projects
Time of work
UISAT
welcomes both short and long time volunteers ready to work 6 hours a day from
Monday to Friday.
What type of work do our volunteers/interns do?
·HIV/AID’s
counseling, guidance and sensitization
·Working with
youth and people affected and infected by HIV/AIDS
·Visiting Schools,
·Visiting health
centers and hospitals
·Home visits and
counseling
·Teaching children
·Education and
awareness campaigns in HIV/AID’s, Sanitation, Hygiene, Nutrition and preventing
child violence against (Children’s rights campaigns).
·Entrepreneurship
trainings and business management
·Training Music
Dance Drama (MDD)
·Training soccer
skills
·Assisting local
medical clinics
·Community
outreach and health education
·Vocation
training and life skills
·Safety campaigns
·Women
empowerment
·Work camps
Beneficiaries
·People and
families living with HIV/AID’s (PHA’s)
·Orphans and
vulnerable children (OVC’s)
·Young women and
girl children
·Youth
·Families of
elderly and grand parents
·Disabled
·Patients and
causalities
Expectations
·Serving
as effective snario examples and witnesseswhen
we return to our home countriesfor
others in need to do the similar activity
·An opportunity
to try strange light and heavy activities/ tasks
·Bring changesand make differences to people with the highest class of vulnerability
·Have fun and
sharing
·Meet new people
from different cultures and backgrounds
·Taste local
foods
·Experiencing new
adventure, cultural backgrounds and tourist attractions
Outcomes
·Volunteers learn
their personal/self weaknesses and strengths as you share with millions of
people from new cultures.
·Gaining an extensive portfolio of
skills and experiences such as communication, management, problem solving,
leadership and team work, and also enhance your employability which can be
genuine and crucial after graduation from high school, college, vocational,
university or any other education institution at whatever stage in life you may
be in.
But most of
all, the HIV/AID’s infected persons, orphans and vulnerable children, youth
groups among others with whom we work will benefit tremendously from your
efforts and generosity.
During
short and long term volunteer service programmes and work camps participants
always visit traditional and cultural heritage sites, game parks, forests,
mountains, lakes and water falls in Uganda.but at the cost of interested volunteers.
Cultural
nights are organized and participants always display items, songs and dances
from there home countries and traditions. They carry along with things that
represent/ introduce their cultures and make their days of volunteering
enjoyable.
Donations
Our
volunteers have also made commitments, promises, pledges, sponsorships and donations
to children, families, schools, health centers, village committees, youth and
women groups plus people living with HIV/AID’s.
This
support/assistance has been inform of child sponsorship, scholastic
materials like books, pens, pencils, text books, sets, brooms, toilet papers,
geometry sets, rulers, reams of papper, uniforms, bags, shoes, computers,
printers, filing cabinets, photo copiers, furniture etc and providing
child care for infants and assisting teachers on arranging and implementation
of the scheduled programmes in schools.
Development measures in villages: - building materials and manual
labour in building schools, cleaning and constructing water sources (wells),
religious places and health centers (clinics).
home-visits
for family counseling, assisting patients and donating basic needs i.e clothes,
shoes, scholastic materials etc plus basins, cups, plates, jerricanes,
mattresses, bed sheets and blankets, soap, sugar, salt, medical and nutritional
needs among others.
Volunteer Arrangements
It’s
tantamount for All Volunteers to pay an Application fee of $200 Us
dollars each due with this application. For administration, preparation of the
volunteer service program, application approval and
program information preparation, communication
and transport to and from Entebbeinternational airport which is a few miles from Kampalaand takes more than one hour away. You are advised to request for these forms
at uisat73@gmail.com or princepaulw@gmail.com
A $350nonrefundable deposit, which is applied towards the cost of the Service
Program, The balance of the fee is due after the scheduled date of
arrival. If UISAT volunteers delay the application within 30 days of the
scheduled date of arrival, you must pay a late application fee of $50 to
cover special handling.
Note:
The service program fee does not include insurance, passports, touring,
donations, child sponsorships, visas or airfare.
Below is
the program fee break-down which you will need to pay depending on the period
of your stay with UISAT.
Cost of the
service programme per head in both regions:
Kampala
DistrictSEMUTO, LUWERO DISTRICT Districtand All programmes out of Kampala
1 month $
500
1 month $ 650
2 weeks $
300
2 weeks $ 450
1 week $ 2001week $ 300
This covers
costs of accommodation, food, drinks and modest contribution to our
utility bills. Meals are cooked right in a home and feature a diverse
variety of local dishes, tropical fruits and vegetables, matooke, rice, super
gate, posho, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, fish, meat, chicken, breads
and fruit beverages.
Volunteers
stay with one another in shared rooms, with one or two bunk beds in a
room. Men and woman are separate unless a couple or family comes and
wishes to stay together during the service programme. These rooms are in a
small distance from the UISAT offices.
International
volunteers are given local volunteers to interact, share or stay with if he/she
is single who takes responsibility of picking him/her in the morning and
escorts him/her from the places of work back to the hostels in the evening
after work. After reaching home and sharing house work then local volunteer is
able to stay or return to his/her place of residence to sleep.
Message to the world
UGANDA
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND TOURISM-UISAT wishes to hear from and welcomes
every one interested in endeavoring time for the significance of the
disadvantaged communities in Uganda mainly in the fields of HIV/AID’s,
orphanage and vulnerable groups (OVC's), As counseling, sensitization,
education, development, health care, sports, shelter and feeding are of
spectacular importance.
Holidays
are special occasions that take on extra meaning when shared with your foreign
friends and if you do not volunteer, you will never expose your abilities to
other peoples and cultures.
Families,
groups, students, business men/women, church heads, teachers, doctors, soccer
coaches, music dance and drama trainers, counselors, builders, artists,
artizans, nurses, techinicians etc are welcome too! For those
intending to stay for any period let it be, special arrangements can
be made for their stay at UISAT.
UISAT would
like to invite partners from the entire world to join us. We are dedicated to
help HIV/AID’s infected and affected persons, orphans and vulnerable
children-groups. The organization’s intention of formulating this partnership
is building a strong network with other organizations, groups, projects
and individuals from all parts of the world.
As organization
partners, we can also exchange knowledge, ideas, information, challenges,
skills and experience to support the needs of target groups we work with.
UISAT
cannot ignore the plight of these vulnerable groups any more. It is time to
accept our concern and responsibility as a caring world-community and work
tireless and tremendously to bring a positive change in their lives.
Indeed
every HIV/AID’s infected and affected person, orphans and vulnerable
children-groups in Ugandahave the right to shelter, food, education, health-sanitation, hygiene, medical
and parental care, equality, security, safety and cocalicular activities for a
joyful and better standards of living.
Respond to
this alarm by joining efforts with UISAT in ensuring this as a reality in the
lives of the majority infected and affected, orphaned by HIV/AID’s, and the
rest of the vulnerable children-groups in Central Uganda and Eastern Uganda and
in a spot it will be Northern Uganda.
After volunteering/ interning
All volunteers/interns
are asked to work as UISAT ambassadors, event-planners, fundraisers,
grant-writers, technical support providers, outreach representatives and
researchers in their home countries.
Let us volunteer “If we are to
make the world a better place for me and you”
