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Use your artistic skills at a school in a Refugee Settlement! :)

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The experience

We are a refugee led organization located in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement. We aim to provide quality education for the children here. We are looking for volunteers to come add colours to our school. We are hoping you can paint murals on our walls, decorate our classrooms, and make posters for the kids! You can be as creative as you want! You will also have the opportunity to come teach and play with the kids!

What you offer

18 hours of help per week

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

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

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 10 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers

Description: Volunteers contribute $10 pper day to cover expenses for food and accommodation.

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.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Requirements

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We offer volunteering opportunities for various amount of time. Whether it is one week or three month, we are happy that you want to work with us. We are an incredibly flexible organization so you can try various tasks to see which one suits you the best! Volunteering with us gives you the chance to really make a difference in our communities.

**Important** Our work is situated in both the Refugee Settlement as well as the host community. Your accommodation will be located in a school within the premise of the settlement. We can ensure that it is completely safe and there will be a 24 hour security guard on site, however, if you are not comfortable with staying here, there are nearby guest houses you can stay in for around $15 to $20 a night.

Activities & Shift

You can use your creativity in whatever way you wish!

Specifically, we are looking for someone to:

Painting murals on our walls
Drawing and writing English learning posters (eg. Fruits, Occupations, etc.)
Making our new wooden desks more colourful
Teach arts and crafts classes to the kids

In addition, we also have various other volunteering positions you can try!

Assisting our Volunteer Coordinator with the management of other volunteers on site
​Teaching English as a second language
Assisting teacher at our school to teach various subjects in class.
​Visiting families (outreach program)
​Conducting research in refugee communities​
Training the youth in peace and conflict, health, sexual gender based violence (SGBV), human/refugee rights, etc.
​Visiting and conducting research on refugees in the camps.
Practicing with refugee musicians, and sharing art experience.