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🤱 Support Maternal & Child Health in Rural Uganda

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The experience

Join Mothers Hearth Uganda, a grassroots non-profit improving maternal and child health and education in Eastern Uganda. Share your skills, support community programs, and experience meaningful cultural exchange while making a real impact in rural communities.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 6 Per day

Fee pays for: Materials for volunteer activities and Donation to project

Description: Wir wären froh um einen täglichen Beitrag von 6 USD. Dadurch können wir die Kosten für die Verpflegung sowie der Elektrizität decken. Besten Dank!

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Volunteers can help in many different ways. You can help the teachers and the children in school. If you enjoy teaching you can bring your skills and any examples from home for lessons in reading, mathematics, writing or any other topic you would like to teach. You can help in small groups on a particular subject to give them special attention. All children learn English, so you can help them to practice, even by talking and engaging with them, this can be a big help.
Children also need to learn about the digital world, very few children in Mbale have access to and know how to use computers. Bring your laptop, bring an extra, and let them explore the wonders of computers. Simply learning the keys and how to type would be great.

Teach them about hygiene, why it is important to wash your hands, why it is important to use a latrine. We encourage good hygiene and nutrition at school but it takes time for children to learn good practice.

Ugandans love music, singing and dancing. If you play an instrument, bring it with you and teach them new songs and sing together.

Do you like to play football or any other sport? If you can bring some balls or sport equipment we can arrange time to play games with the children.

You can help to develop relationships with the women groups and empower them to start a small business so they can earn a sustainable income.

Help with construction of the new medical center we are building, help with making bricks.

Do you love photography and videos? Make a report of your stay or make a movie about your time with us in Mutoto.

As you can see there are plenty of ways to help!

Activities & Shift

Activities can differ every day. Therefore days and schedules vary for every day.

Rules

Wearing appropriate clothing is an important rule in Uganda. People like to cover their knees. We would appreciate it if you could adapt to this.