Become a Village Conservation Assistant
ReportLocation: Masaka, Uganda
This programs works with rural community members who are joining efforts to rehabilitate their degraded communities so they can be able to sustain their community needs and livelihoods.Many rural communities in our areas entirely depend on land resources for their subsistence needs such as food. With the rising levels of degradation and loss of green cover from trees and other vegetation from wetlands, many local people in rural villages are facing high levels of crop failure, loss of livestock due to drought condition that don’t favour these activities.
Some of the key issues that the program seeks to address include;
• Reduce the rate of natural resource loss and degradation of farmland resources.
• Food insecurity among rural farmer families.
• The loss of farm tree cover that is raising the need to encroach on natural forests for wood fuel and other purposes.
• Ensuring self-sustaining livelihood of poor farmer families
• Use of unsafe and inefficient energy options used in the community
Your roles as a Village Conservation Assistant.
* creating sustainable solutions to problems facing the local community especially in their farming activities, adaptability to climate change and related problems
*As a volunteer, you will work with local groups of people and farmer families in rural communities design and implement conservation action plans to protect and conserve key natural resources in the villages through lasting solutions that make villages more sustainable and productive.
* You will share with the local smallholder farmers some improved farming/gardening practices or skills that can improve their food security and other subsistence needs. This way you will have provided food for many that still lack it today.
* You will participate in community tree planting campaigns and/or helping out with raising tree seedlings on our Demo farm in Luteete village.
* You shall also sensitise local people on effects of climate change and how best local people especially smallholder farmers can adapt to the adverse impacts.
* You shall get involved and in the community efforts to put in place energy saving and efficient stoves. For every stove you will support, you will have saved many trees from being wasted as fire wood.
* You shall also share conservation and sustainability information with local people through environment education campaigns.
Accommodation, Meals and drinks.
* Volunteers shall pay a small fee of $8 usd to cater for their accommodation (with a host family), meals, transport in the project area and
* We will provide the volunteer with three meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner/supper) and for those who want to try new recipes on their own, they will be given the opportunity to have it.
* Volunteers will also get bottled water and fruits included.
* Volunteers with special dietary considerations such as vegetarians will be catered for based on their needs.
Arrival in Uganda…
* Volunteers can arrive any time of the year.
* When you arrive in Uganda, we will be there at the airport to welcome you to the Pearl of Africa. We will escort you to our operation area which is 3 hours drive away from Entebbe airport.
* You will however meet your own airport pickup costs.
* You will get a Uganda tourist visa when you arrive in Entebbe at USD $50.00 and remember to carry your vaccination cards with you as you will be asked to present them.
Free time activities.
* Volunteer will be free to use their free time for excursions especially during weekends or selected days other than working days.
* Volunteers will be free to spend their free time in a green park, bar or a club for night life lovers, attend a social function or any other social places where you will meet other great volunteers in the area.
* Volunteers may also choose to spend a few days or one of their weekends at one of Uganda's most popular National Parks such as Murchison falls national park, queen Elizabeth national park or any other park where you will see wild animals but most especially Lake Mburo National park that is only about 2 hours drive from where you will be volunteering.
* Volunteers will have to pay extra fees for these activities.
* * * See you in Uganda! * * *
