HELP WITH OUR PROJECTS IN BUDAKA DISTRICT
ReportLocation: Budaka, Uganda
We are Organisation For Community Development Uganda (OCD) registered youth community based organization (CBO) dealing with projects in health, agriculture, poverty alleviation, schools and academics, community empowerment, supporting the less fortunate children and their families. We were founded with the objective of bettering the lives and restoring hopes and dreams to the less fortunate among the communities of Budaka and neighboring areas. We strive to provide good quality healthcare, education, farming equipment, and empowering disadvantaged children and families to have success in their homes.We are looking for volunteers, organizations, foundations, donors and well wishers to work with us. Please feel free to send us a message to partner with us on local grassroots community projects. Our community is friendly, trusted with meaningful volunteering and free learning opportunities for all volunteers. We love meeting people from all around the world, sharing our experiences and good times with them, I will respond to most of your messages since I have internet access. We kindly request volunteers to feel free with us, ask any questions of their interest, such as on getting around our location, learning local languages like how to greet in lugwere, luganda, and experiencing the culture of the local communities.
We are blessed with a lovely, loyal, intelligent, and welcoming family. A family with good integrity and hospitality to all volunteers and locals visiting around from different corners of the globe. Normally in our culture, families gather around during evening times after their duties and share their experiences, stories, have laughs and eat together.
In your free time, we will be ready to help you organize trips of your interests, such as to national parks, Jinja, and other attractions of Uganda. We have experience in this and can help you to get good prices! You may also go for walks in the area, go to clubs or restaurants in Mbale, the closest city to us, or anything else you are interested in! We are always happy to accompany our volunteers to do anything to help them feel safe. Just feel free to ask.
We will be so happy to hear from you!
WORKING ARRANGEMENT
Volunteers will participate in projects of their interest that serves the local community,
Activities will range from: 4-5hrs, 5 days a week.
1. Training and carrying out agricultural skills and activities with the local community
2. Help us write review and amend for us funding/grant proposals, putting it in proper English language.
3. Helping to improve computer literacy to community members and children.
4. Teaching in our organization's primary and secondary schools (subjects such as English, math, foreign languages, or anything of your interest)
5. Carrying out physical education (soccer, volleyball, or any other games you can teach us) with the children, community youth members, or other locals around.
6. Organizing crowd fundraising in your home country or residential country to help local projects improve on their standards of living.
If you have other skills to help us in different ways, please feel free to suggest them! We are open to communication and all different kinds of volunteer help!
LIVING ARRANGEMENT
Guests will be staying with our family or guest house upon volunteer's wish. Our family has reserved two bedrooms to accommodate couple or single volunteers. Three meals will be provided a day, e.g Break fast before starting the day's activities, lunch at 12pm, and dinner. Local meals like rice, matooke, beans, chapati and many others to mention. Volunteers feel free with dietary specifications- vegetarians/vegans welcome! Visitors are free to cook and prepare meals and can be given assistance in case of need or want. The community has no running water but we made sure that plumbing is available in the host and guest house. We use buckets full of water to flush the toilets after use and bathing is by use of a basin and water scooper to wash one's body.
LIGHTING IN THE HOUSE
We use solar light systems for lighting in the house and have a charging unit away from the guesthouse, electricity has been extended to our villages and we are in the process of installation.
We have water delivered to the house everyday in jerrycans.
Any further questions, feel free to ask!
