- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
children andmothers and comunity
ORGANIZATION: save the marginalized
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
this opertunity is for you to have exprience in the devloping word and children culther and gran mother
this opertunity is to help avolunteer to develope working relation ship with the community and exprience african culther.
it is dirrectly in community with the community and allows you to develop skills of different nature
any person can learn new skill
STM Uganda is a charitable, non-governmental organisation, registered with the National NGO Board under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uganda.
The organization was born out of commitment, love, hope, and prayers by Dr. CHRIS SAbstianal, Mrs maryabooti, and Mr. Paul bamu and they started implementing projects in 2008.
STM operates entirely in the Busoga region of Eastern Uganda, and owns, runs, and operates the following institutions and programmes:
Nabaya clinic for 50 HIV/AIDS orphans from child-headed families without any relatives
A communit bore hole that ser over 68 HIV/AIDS family and 640 children.
A life-skills training unit
A micro-finance program for the marginalized women and youtht
Programs for food security and access to safe water
Increased access to health and care (safe motherhood and maternal health, sexual reproductive health & rights, mosquito nets access & fight against malaria).
Increased access to education and child protection (primary school, vocational & life-skills training, orphanage, public health education, window of hope and sports & games).
Increased access to markets and economic opportunities (micro-finance credit, social media to market local produce, access to business-related information, village banking, research and studies on economic trends).
Human-rights awareness and promotion (ending child/human sacrifice, ending domestic violence, promoting family peace, documentation and reporting of human rights abuses).
Access to safe and clean water (borehole drilling, water harvesting, irrigation, hand-washing, pit latrine, bio-gas, reducing water wastage).(wash project)
Food security (growing of fruit trees and vegetables for household nutrition and income generation, modern agriculture, access to milk/dairy products),
Challenges
The areas where we operate are heavily populated, with a population of 7.8 million as on 2002. Girls start giving birth as early as the age of 16, and men marry 3-10 women on average. That every man should marry as many women as he pleases is the norm of the region.
To add to this situation, 89.4% of the population live below the poverty line and 73.5% can’t read or write. Mortality, and especially maternal mortality, stands high. There are just a handful of hospitals and schools. Most families and households have no access to pit latrines or safe and clean water. HIV/AIDS prevalence rate stands at 22.3%, making it the highest in the region. There is no food security, and most families battle with famine every year.
Eastern Uganda is an isolated area, battling with numerous challenges. Women and children are among the most affected. For example, kabukye is one of the many villages that make up Busota Parish in Kamuli. This is a very remote and poor village, but is alone has a population of 2,420.
Most of the people in this community are either young or very old, showing a typical example of how HIV/AIDS has killed the youth and working-age population, leaving behind many little children and old grandparents. This village appears to be cut off from the rest of the world.
Villagers here mainly depend on basic field farming and orchard farming for their livelihood; however, they are always at the mercy of the weather for them to plant their crops: they have to always wait for the rainy seasons in order to plant and till their gardens. This means that when it doesn’t rain on time, famine strikes, killings several people.
Clearly, like any other village in Uganda, this too has been completely ignored by the Ugandan government. The only time a politician or their leader is seen is when the leaders and politicians are looking for votes or harassing the local people to pay taxes. There are no hospitals or health centers, no proper schools, no roads, and no access to safe clean water.
As a community development worker, who has been working in this community for so long, I have realized that there is an urgent need for access to safe and clean water. It makes me cry when I see the locals dying due to water-related diseases. This is very much preventable, if only they had a borehole where they could access safe and clean water. There is an ever-increasing number of girls dropping out of school because they need to fetch water from far away. Fetching water is considered a domestic duty of girls and women. On average, women and girls walk for over four miles to get just 20 liters of safe and clean water from the only protected well in the community.
Domestic violence in this community is another challenge. Such gender-based violence too stems from the fact that women and girls walk for miles to fetch water, line up for hours to get water, and then walk back home, almost always reaching home when it's late and dark. Their husbands end up beating them, suspecting that they have sexual affairs elsewhere with other men. These men are so heartless; they never appreciate the poor women. It's too bad a situation here. I wish the government can take a study into this situation.
There are increased rape cases, and always women and girls are raped in the evening hours. In 2012, when I first visited this village, 31cases of rape were reported within the community. The police in Kamuli never followed up the cases. By 2014, the number of rape cases has more than doubled. The rapists always take advantage of the poor, defenseless women walking in the night from the only source of clean water.
In order to avoid physical torture, many women and girls resort to fetching water from open, unprotected sources, like the swamps. It’s a highly disturbing fact that humans are now sharing these health hazard water swamps with animals. This has translated into several waterborne diseases and increased death of the children and adults.
These are just one of the many challenges the women and girls have to battle with on a daily basis, not to mention the denied opportunities to go to school, access to safe motherhood, etc.
STM
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About save the marginalized
Location:
kabukye, kamuli, kamuli, UG
Mission Statement
Greetings from save the marginalized (STM) based in Kamuli Eastern Uganda E. Africa, It’s a Civil Society Organization - Community based.
. Vision:
Society free of oppression, suppression, poverty and HIV AIDS
The mission;
To bring the dreams of the marginalized into reality and equality among the women and children. and people with special needs
The Volunteers?
Everyone can be of service. STM Uganda Volunteers has no bank ground, language or professional requirements for participation. Volunteers typically share common characteristics such as flexibility, compassion, a sense of adventure, and most important, the desire to work with and learn from local people in the host community. Volunteers are drawn from all occupations and backgrounds, and from throughout the world. Each volunteer selects a service program that best employs their experience and interests, and a program where the volunteer feels engaged in a community project of lasting benefit.
Volunteers must be in good health and have the mental and physical capability to function as a team member. Therefore if you’re open to new challenges and enjoy working with and learning from local people, then you can contribute to and benefit from a service-learning program. What we ask of you is flexibility, patience, a spirit of adventure, and a sense of humour. Most Ugandan cultures are very friendly though some provide a greater degree of predictability than others due to cultural norms.
It is also important to emphasis that you are dealing with another culture when you are volunteering internationally. How you would approach a particular situation in your own country does not necessary mean it is appropriate to handle it in the same way in Uganda. Your time and commitment to the program is of course valued but please remember you are a guest of the country and will no doubt be looked at as a representative of your homeland.
Within Uganda we would expect you to follow the local rules and regulations. If you have any queries you would like to discuss about the information provided here please direct it to Mr. bamubingirire paul at email paul.bamu@gmail.com
STM Uganda strives to provide a better future for some of the most vulnerable women and children in Uganda. The need is expensive and long-term, so your opportunity to make a significant difference through service is likewise immeasurable. Think about how much you receive when you give and consider why you want to volunteer. You may have several different reasons. However, if you are someone who has an open mind and flexible and would like:
To share a skill, To get to know a community, To demonstrate commitment to a cause/belief, To gain leadership skills, To donate your professional skills, To have an impact, To learn something new, To make new friends, To explore a career, To do something different from your job, For fun!, For religious reasons, To keep skills alive, To be an agent of change.
STM UGANDA welcomes individuals and groups of 18+ years old and backgrounds. We do encourage you to apply on line as soon as possible. Early enrolment allows you extra time for visa processing and also allows you to make your travel arrangements earlier and perhaps more affordably.
Program Fee
The program fee is negotiable, depending on the period of your stay at WIP Uganda. This fee MUST be paid directly to our bank Account after and/or upon your placement. There is no application or registration fees required.
STM - Uganda is currently looking forward for potential partners like you whom we can work with, network and partner. WIP is willing to share and discuss with you more details on her work, partnerships and ideas. Also visit our website http/www. savethmarginalized.wardpress.com and you can contact paul.bamu@gmail.com , pansonpaul@yahoo.com or info.stm88@gmail.com
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greetings from save the marginalized (STM) based in Kamuli Eastern Uganda E. Africa, It’s a Civil Society Organization - Community based.
. Vision:
Society free of oppression, suppression, poverty and HIV AIDS
The mission;
To bring the dreams of the marginalized into reality and equality among the women and children. and people with special needs
The Volunteers?
Everyone can be of service. STM Uganda Volunteers has no bank ground, language or professional requirements for participation. Volunteers typically share common characteristics such as flexibility, compassion, a sense of adventure, and most important, the desire to work with and learn from local people in the host community. Volunteers are drawn from all occupations and backgrounds, and from throughout the world. Each volunteer selects a service program that best employs their experience and interests, and a program where the volunteer feels engaged in a community project of lasting benefit.
Volunteers must be in good health and have the mental and physical capability to function as a team member. Therefore if you’re open to new challenges and enjoy working with and learning from local people, then you can contribute to and benefit from a service-learning program. What we ask of you is flexibility, patience, a spirit of adventure, and a sense of humour. Most Ugandan cultures are very friendly though some provide a greater degree of predictability than others due to cultural norms.
It is also important to emphasis that you are dealing with another culture when you are volunteering internationally. How you would approach a particular situation in your own country does not necessary mean it is appropriate to handle it in the same way in Uganda. Your time and commitment to the program is of course valued but please remember you are a guest of the country and will no doubt be looked at as a representative of your homeland.
Within Uganda we would expect you to follow the local rules and regulations. If you have any queries you would like to discuss about the information provided here please direct it to Mr. bamubingirire paul at email paul.bamu@gmail.com
STM Uganda strives to provide a better future for some of the most vulnerable women and children in Uganda. The need is expensive and long-term, so your opportunity to make a significant difference through service is likewise immeasurable. Think about how much you receive when you give and consider why you want to volunteer. You may have several different reasons. However, if you are someone who has an open mind and flexible and would like:
To share a skill, To get to know a community, To demonstrate commitment to a cause/belief, To gain leadership skills, To donate your professional skills, To have an impact, To learn something new, To make new friends, To explore a career, To do something different from your job, For fun!, For religious reasons, To keep skills alive, To be an agent of change.
STM UGANDA welcomes individuals and groups of 18+ years old and backgrounds. We do encourage you to apply on line as soon as possible. Early enrolment allows you extra time for visa processing and also allows you to make your travel arrangements earlier and perhaps more affordably.
Program Fee
The program fee is negotiable, depending on the period of your stay at WIP Uganda. This fee MUST be paid directly to our bank Account after and/or upon your placement. There is no application or registration fees required.
STM - Uganda is currently looking forward for potential partners like you whom we can work with, network and partner. WIP is willing to share and discuss with you more details on her work, partnerships and ideas. Also visit our website http/www. savethmarginalized.wardpress.com and you can contact paul.bamu@gmail.com , pansonpaul@yahoo.com or info.stm88@gmail.com
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
kabuky kamuli ugandanonokamuli, eastern uganda kamuli Uganda
DATE POSTED
April 21, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- its open
- cv and letter of interest