- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
Teaching Children aged 3 to 12 years & Community Health-outreach Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: Volunteers International Network
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
Teaching and Community Outreach
Do you want to ride to work on the back of a motor cycle as the sun rises? Scrub the red dust off your feet as the sun sets? Experience new activities with each new day? This placement is for you. Volunteers learn to make baskets while discussing household issues with amazing local groups. They dig wells and make bricks and do construction and renovations. They help primary students learn English and Mathematics. They play with the little ones. The sky is the limit!
i) Village Teaching
Village Teaching Volunteers in the Village Teaching program provide arts and crafts, structured play, music/singing, sports, health, and academics at the primary or secondary level. Volunteers are needed in local schools to give students an alternate learning experience. Traditional teaching in Uganda is rote learning and memorization. Our main focus is to provide children with a loving, creative and interactive environment in which to flourish.Volunteers choose which subjects and age groups to teach upon arrival. They work independently to plan lessons using government curriculum and textbooks. Please be aware that there are few (if any) resources available at school. Volunteers should bring any supplies, teaching materials, or instruments they wish to make use of. (Or plan to buy here - why not support our economy?)
This is a challenging but amazing program for volunteers with experience organizing children, such as camp counselors, day care workers, and people who love children. Bring your games, songs, and enthusiasm to the village!
ii) Conducting a community needs assessment
Conducting a community needs assessmentVolunteers in the Community Outreach program join in on the work of their host organization. Volunteer activities include youth mentoring through sport and art, women empowerment, small business development, handicraft making, light construction, micro-finance administration, educational materials development, conducting seminars, and maintaining wells and other village infrastructure.
A community outreach placement is particularly appropriate for volunteers with great ideas and enthusiasm for local community development. This is a real opportunity for deep cultural exchange.For all village teaching and outreach placements, accommodation and daily meals are provided at the village of placement, with the family of the host organization’s director. Some have electricity, some have running water. No more than 6 volunteers are placed together in any village placement.
Public Health ImprovementCan you communicate important information in creative ways? Do you want to learn the reality on the ground regarding public health in Uganda and Kenya? Do you like camping? In this program, volunteers work alongside local counselors and health care professionals, in a variety of remote locations, designed to help local people stay healthy and make informed decisions about their health care.
Volunteers talk to people in schools and communities about issues directly affecting them. You’ll design and conduct seminars based on subjects such as community sanitation, household and personal hygiene, nutrition, malaria prevention, sex education, HIV prevention and AIDS care, etc. Basic training and educational materials are on site, but volunteers are encouraged to bring new materials as well.
Volunteers can also work in clinics and maternity hospitals talking directly to women and girls about safe sex, family planning, maternal and child health, and nutrition. Volunteers are involved in the lab and pharmacy, as well.
The schedule is flexible and includes some or all activities offered by the program. Other activities such as teaching, youth mentoring and vegetable gardening may be on offer by the host organization. Volunteers are encouraged to dig in and try everything. The exchange of ideas, experiences, and culture is highly encouraged.
This program may involve walking long distances in the sun. Volunteers should bring a hat and walking shoes. As you’ll be working off the beaten track, expect to ride to work on the back of a motorcycle.
Volunteers are given a private room at the host organization as their home base. At times have electricity, some may have running water. When work is done in surrounding villages, you’ll commute by motorcycle or on foot. If outreaches are longer than one day, volunteers spend night with fellow staff in the village.
Agriculture and ConservationDo you like working outdoors and getting your hands dirty? Interested in seeing the impact of climate change in the tropics? Come volunteer at a local farm and help a community achieve food security and environmental sustainability.
Volunteers work along side locals digging and maintaining demonstration gardens to promote better nutrition, efficient use of land, natural pest control, soil conservation, and income generation. Depending on the season, volunteers prepare soil, plant, weed, chase pests, or harvest crops. Volunteers are given basic training and appropriate tools upon arrival, but bring gloves, a hat, and rubber boots if you wish. This project requires working in the sun.
Volunteers take part in a flexible schedule, which includes some or all activities offered by the program. Other activities such as primary school teaching, and art and sport programs are also happening. Volunteers are encouraged to dig in and try everything. The exchange of ideas, experiences, and culture is highly encouraged.
Volunteers are given a private room and meals in the family home of the host organization’s coordinator. Electricity is intermittent and there is no running water. The farm may be a walking distance from home.
Primary Schools TeachingAre you enthusiastic about early childhood development? Do you love kids and want to teach them about the world? We work with private primary schools that cater exclusively to the education, housing and feeding of needy children and orphans. Because local education essential to future generation, we want volunteers to feed these hungry little brains!
Volunteers are involved in academics, arts and crafts, structured play, music/singing, sports, and public health. The main focus is to provide children with a loving, creative, interactive environment in which to flourish. Volunteers and co-teachers choose which subjects and age groups to teach upon arrival.
They work independently to plan lessons using government curriculum and textbooks. Please be aware that kids come with only pencils and exercise books. Bring any further tools or materials you wish to use. School terms vary annually but are likely to be: Feb to April, May to August, Sept November.
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About Volunteers International Network
Location:
Ntenjeru Trading Center On Katosi Road, 200meters Mpatta Road, Mukono, Central 256, UG
Mission Statement
To contribute to the molding of a region in which the local people (men and women), including those who are marginalized, are able to participate effectively and sustainable and take a lead in the development of the region and Uganda at large
Description
Some community families in East Africa are low-income people making them live a life that is hard to describe. Uganda being one of them, they are as well victim of this. We stand out to fight it through Education and Life Innovation through local and international volunteers invlovement and support.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Ntenjeru, Mukono SouthSubcounty and Fishing SitesOpposite Ntenjeru Parents Secondary SchoolMukono, Central 256Uganda
DATE POSTED
July 10, 2017
SKILLS
- Child Welfare
- Basic Computer Skills
- Elder care
- Teaching / Instruction
- Web Design
- General Education
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 17
- Orientation or Training
- At least 40 hours a week
- for details contact us at http://vintnet.org/contact-us/