Uganda Safari Volunteers
Uganda Safari Volunteers: After the long safari journey in the wildlife circuits of Uganda, a volunteer in one of the communities in Uganda is something new that travellers to Uganda have found to do. Uganda is a developing country and also of people in the rural areas craves for some help from wherever it can come from; you can witness this during the community tours in any of the safari destination you visit while in Uganda. Therefore, extending aid to the rural homesteads near the national park is much more than a blessing to the recipient, you can also visit one of the homes in Uganda and help to fund with the few dollars you will to dash in the funds’ pot. There are a lot of volunteering opportunities for you if at all you have longed on showing some love to the motherless children, the widow mothers, the abandoned families among other vulnerable people in the rural area.
Uganda, just like the developing countries of Africa, is faced with a lot of challenges like HIV scourge that has caused a lot of little children to lose their parents into being orphans, and more. If you need to volunteer in Uganda, your help is much appreciated. And the Uganda volunteer safaris will give you a chance to interact with a lot of orphans single mothers, et cetera. There is a wide opportunity of volunteering in Uganda, and, you can choose to take you volunteering safari to the rural areas or stay in the town or cities, depending on your preference idea. A number of travel companies in Uganda can organise the best fitting volunteering itineraries, where you get to talk to a number of local people and get to know a lot about their situation. Language is not an issue as most Ugandans can at least answer in a few words to all the questions you may ask, plus the guides can help to explain more about what they are talking about.
Most of the urban volunteering work involves giving out a helping hand to the caregivers in the orphaned babies’ homes such as namirembe, Watoto and others found in different parts of Uganda. You can also help out in teaching the elementary level children as part of your volunteering safari in Uganda, you can play with the children in order to get them to open up about their lives, share some jokes with them, help in feeding the babies, bathing them, plus helping out in other administrative work or even empower the girl child among others.
A Uganda volunteer safari is a chance for you to share your life skills with the vulnerable people in the rural areas of Uganda, such as counselling services to the youth in schools, give some psychological boosting to the orphans and HIV victims, help in updating the office files for different orphanages and so much more. If you have a profession that can help, let us say you are a doctor, a nurse, a midwife or a paediatrician, then you have a good time to help out with the health projects of the orphaned children, pregnant mothers, and disabled people, treat the homeless among others.
What kind of volunteering opportunities are present?
If you are planning to stay for more day of volunteering, you can spend a week or more changing lives of the African children, strengthening weary hearts, mending broken hearts, empowering the women and the girl child, building the class rooms for children, building homes for the homeless, offer medical facilities, dig borehole and latrines for the rural communities among others.
Uganda has a lot of volunteer teaching opportunities in many rural schools where children spend the whole term without seeing a teacher. A number of opportunities are present for you to put your teaching skills to more users that can change a child’s life forever. You can help out in teaching English to the children, the pronunciation of some English words, almost all the curriculum for Ugandan education system is in English, therefore, you can teach parts that you may need the children to know about. The good thing is, the children can never disturb, and they will be attentive for the new “muzungu” teacher, as the local people refer to the whites here in Uganda.
Community project is another thing you can do during your Uganda volunteer safari. However, most of the community projects are mainly found in the rural areas of the country and others in the slum areas of kampala or jinja. You can help and sensitize the local people on how to love personal hygiene, prevent HIV, keep their homesteads clean, encourage the mothers to breastfeed their babies, offer first aid training for fire, accidents and other prone to the area, teach the mothers about family planning and much about nutrition habits, and so much more.
Other opportunities for volunteering include vacation bible schools, vocational training, slum children projects, medical volunteering of all kinds in the hospitals, schools, communities and more, sports training in schools, help the children in equipping them with library reading equipment, tutoring in the schools for the disabled children plus child care assistance in orphanages.
How long do I need to volunteer in Uganda?
You can choose the time you want to volunteer in Uganda, but basically, most of the volunteers to Uganda prefer staying for two days, three days or a week in order to help raise up living standards of some communities. Other travellers to Uganda, can stay for months in order to fully find the satisfaction of helping in Uganda. Most of the volunteers, love to first go for the Uganda safari then volunteer, however, others volunteer fist and do their safaris after, either way, it works. There is nothing life changing like changing the life of another. There is a wide range of volunteering opportunities for you in Uganda, all you have to do is mention it to your tour operator so that it can be added to your Uganda safari.
