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🥗✨ Community Nutrition & Food Security Volunteer

The experience

"Give hope, one meal at a time 🍚🌱"
Instead of providing meals to widow family daily that will live them hungry in just a few hours how about volunteering to provide solutions to put meals every day to these families for a lifetime.

Join our mission to fight hunger and build food security in Uganda! Through monthly food parcels and a regenerative farming project, we support widowed families and orphaned children with dignity and care.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

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.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

Surf lessons: Take free surf classes at the local beaches.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

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

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

For the past decade, our organization has dedicated itself to supporting widow families and its centers through donations; however, we have come to realize that this approach is not sustainable. The sporadic nature of donations often leaves these families in precarious situations, where they may go to bed hungry for days, unable to provide adequate nutrition for their children. Recognizing this urgent need for a more reliable solution, we have initiated the Community Nutrition & Food Security Program, which focuses on empowering widow families and Torah centers through agricultural engagement and training. By procuring 30 acres of virgin land, we aim to establish a sustainable agricultural program that not only enhances food security but also fosters economic independence for these families of five members, are actively involved in this initiative.

The primary objectives of the Community Nutrition & Food Security-program are to create fight food insecurity, to create a consistent income-generating opportunity for widows throughout the year, reduce their dependency on donor support, build their capacity to cultivate both cash and food crops each season, and equip community members with the necessary skills to sustain this agricultural endeavor. However, we face several challenges that hinder the successful implementation of this project. These include a lack of skills and professionalism, a lack of funds to lease the land, insufficient traction units for plowing and clearing, a scarcity of improved hybrid seeds, inadequate transportation for delivering seeds to the farm, limited manpower for facilitating agricultural activities, a shortage of fertilizers, and a lack of proper storage facilities, such as silos, for post-harvest maize and beans.

Activities & Shift

You’ll help collect donations, pack nutritious food parcels, and deliver them to families in need — while also assisting in our sustainable agriculture project for widows. Work side-by-side with the community in a role full of meaning, smiles, and real impact.

🛒 Collect & sort food donations

📦 Pack and distribute food parcels

🌾 Plant, weed, harvest at our widow-led farm

🧑‍🌾 Support sustainable farming workshops

🕒 25 hrs/week | 2 days off