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Community Development Volunteers and Interns

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$1,250Program Costs
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2021Year established

Program Overview

Community Development Volunteers:
Volunteers are usually international and eager to learn more about the culture and understand the real global challenges.
- Mobilization: Sensitize communities in Masaka about HIV testing, MHM, WASH, and organic farming through home visits + community meetings
- School Support: Co-facilitate clubs with teachers, mentor peer educators
- Follow-up: Do home visits for girls at risk of dropout, the elderly needing water/latrine support
- Data: Help fill attendance sheets, simple baseline/end line surveys for M&E
- Linkage: Refer clients to health facilities for HIV testing, counseling, and SRH services

Interns:
- Program Support: Assist in planning workshops, preparing IEC materials, and setting up community outreaches
- Research & Documentation: Collect data, take photos, write field notes, and support reports for donors
- Training: Get trained on CSE, U=U, MHM, then co-facilitate sessions in schools/communities
- Environment Projects: Support water source cleaning, plate rack construction, and tree planting records
- Innovation: Bring fresh ideas from their university/course - e.g., social media awareness, new teaching games

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Program Highlights

Live the "Community Impact” Model—life skills club in a Masaka secondary school, home visits, water source cleaning, making plate rack stands, homes, and pad distribution.
Work side-by-side with Ugandan, share teaching methods, swap cultural perspectives, and co-design outreach activities.
Leave with more than photos, get hands-on training in community mobilization, CSE facilitation, M&E data collection, report writing, and project planning.
Make measurable change, girls stay in school with reusable pads, see a family use a latrine you helped plan, watch students lead their first HIV awareness session.
Live and work in Masaka, a vibrant, semi-urban/rural setting and rural, experience Ugandan food, music, local markets, street &slum walks and community life

What's Included

Accommodation / Housing for Program Duration
Some Program Activity Costs
Weekday Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Weekend Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
In-Country Transportation To & From Project
Letter of Recommendation
Certificate of Completion

Exclusions

Tuition & Fees
Wifi Costs
Some Accommodation
Medical / Accident Insurance
Travel Insurance
Some Meals / Partial Meal Plan
Welcome Dinner
Airport Transfer (Pick-Up)
Airport Transfer (Drop-Off)

Program Details

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Locations

  • Masaka, Uganda

Available Terms / Availability

  • Years Offered
  • Year Round

Eligible Nationalities

  • Afghani
  • Albanian
  • American
  • Andorran
  • Antarctica
  • Antiguan & Barbudan
  • Argentinian
  • Armenian
  • Aruban
  • Asian
  • Australian
  • Austrian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bahamian
  • Bahraini
  • Bangladeshi
  • Barbadian
  • Belarusian
  • Belgian
  • Bermudian
  • Bhutanese
  • Bolivian
  • Bonaire
  • Brazilian
  • British
  • British Virgin Islander
  • Bruneian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burkinabe
  • Burundian
  • Cambodian
  • Cameroonian
  • Canadian
  • Cape Verdean
  • Caymanian
  • Central African
  • Chadian
  • Channel Islander
  • Chilean
  • Chinese
  • Colombian
  • Comoran
  • Cook Islander
  • Costa Rican
  • Creole
  • Croatian
  • Cuban
  • Curacao
  • Cypriot
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Djibouti
  • Dominican
  • Dutch
  • Ecuadorian
  • Egyptian
  • Emirati
  • English
  • Equatorial Guinean
  • Eritrean
  • Estonian
  • Ethiopian
  • European
  • Fijian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Gabonese
  • Gambian
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Gibraltarian
  • Greek
  • Greenlandic
  • Grenadian
  • Guadeloupian
  • Guatemalan
  • Guinean
  • Guyanese
  • Haitian
  • Hawaiian
  • Honduran
  • Hungarian
  • I-Kiribati
  • Icelandic
  • Indian
  • Indonesian
  • Iranian
  • Iraqi
  • Irish
  • Israeli
  • Italian
  • Ivorian
  • Jamaican
  • Japanese
  • Jordanian
  • Kazakhstani
  • Kittitian, Nevisian
  • Kiwi
  • Korean
  • Kuwaiti
  • Kyrgyzstani
  • Lao or Laotian
  • Latvian
  • Lebanese
  • Liberian
  • Libyan
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuanian
  • Luxembourg
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malaysian
  • Maldivian
  • Malian
  • Maltese
  • Manx
  • Marshallese
  • Martiniquais
  • Mauritanian
  • Mauritian
  • Mexican
  • Micronesian
  • Moldovan
  • Monegasque
  • Mongolian
  • Montenegrin
  • Montserratian
  • Moroccan
  • Mozambican
  • multi
  • Myanmar
  • Namibian
  • Nauruan
  • Nepalese
  • New Caledonian
  • Ni-Vanuatu
  • Nicaraguan
  • Niuean
  • Norwegian
  • Omani
  • Pakistani
  • Palauan
  • Panamanian
  • Papua New Guinean
  • Paraguayan
  • Peruvian
  • Polish
  • Polynesian
  • Portuguese
  • Puerto Rican
  • Qatari
  • Reunionese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Rwandan
  • Saban
  • Sahrawian, Sahraouian
  • Saint Helenian
  • Saint Lucian
  • Saint Vincentian or Vincentian
  • Salvadoran
  • Sammarinese
  • Samoan
  • Sao Tomean
  • Saudi Arabian
  • Scottish
  • Senegalese
  • Serbian
  • Serbian; Montenegrin
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leonean
  • Singaporean
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Solomon Islander
  • Somali
  • South Sudanese
  • Spanish
  • Sri Lankan
  • St. Barts
  • Statian
  • Sudanese
  • Surinamese
  • Swazi
  • Swedish
  • Swiss
  • Syrian
  • Tahiti
  • Taiwanese
  • Tajikistani
  • Thai
  • Tibet
  • Timorese
  • Togolese
  • Tongan
  • Trinidadian, Tobagonian
  • Tunisian
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Turks and Caicos
  • Tuvaluan
  • Ukrainian
  • Uruguayan
  • Uzbekistani
  • Venezuelan
  • Vietnamese
  • Virgin Islander
  • Welsh
  • Yemeni
  • Ghanaian
  • The Vatican
  • This Program is also open to Couples, Families, Group

Education Levels & Language

  • Language
  • English
  • Education
  • University Freshman (1st Year)
  • University Sophomore (2nd Year)
  • University Junior (3rd Year)
  • University Senior (4th Year)
  • University 5th Year or More
  • High School Freshman (1st Year)
  • High School Sophomore (2nd Year)
  • High School Junior (3rd Year)
  • High School Senior (4th Year)
  • High School 5th Year or More
  • Grade school to 8th grade
  • Some high school, no diploma
  • High school graduate, diploma or the equivalent (for example: GED)
  • Some college credit, no degree
  • Trade/technical/vocational training
  • Associate degree
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Master’s degree
  • Professional degree
  • Doctorate degree

Accommodation Options

  • Guest House
  • Home-stays
  • Other

Application Procedures

  • Written Application
  • Letters of Reference
  • Phone/Video Interview
  • Resume
  • Online Application
  • Deposit
  • Travel Insurance

Age Requirement

14+

Duration

  • 1-2 Weeks
  • 2-4 Weeks
  • 3-6 Months
  • 5-8 Weeks
  • 1-3 Months
  • Fall

Starts At

  • 1 week: $1,250

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Is there any salary or compasation?

No payment because all the activities are on volunteer basis.

Do we have to pay more money to engage in some activtites?

If you pay the identified weekly costs, you will have everything covered unless you need to make your own travels besides work, eat food outside work, or if you want to make special donations besides the planned activities. 

Is there any possibility of adventure?

In case you want to make a tour in Uganda like in Sese Islands, Murchison Falls National Park, Lake Mburo, and Queen Elizabeth, and others, you have to incur your costs and should always be done in the last week and last days.

Should we work with the guidence of local team?

With interns, you will have a local supervisor to work within the organization. For volunteers, we work together as a team.

Is there a vehicle to the field work?

We don't own the vehicle but we always hire a car, motorcycle, or bodaboda during field work and also to and from work.

Recognitions & Awards

Awards and accreditations earned by this provider

Women empowerment
School activities
Community engament
Photos
Organization log

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