Everyone can be of service. ACF Volunteering has no language or professional requirements for participation. Volunteers typically share common characteristics such as flexibility, compassion, a sense of adventure, and most importantly 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 can select a service program that best employs their experience and interests, and a program which the volunteer feels engages in a community project of lasting benefit. Volunteers must provide a current police check certificate before they can be officially accepted into any program. 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 humor. Volunteer ProgramsChoosing A Program Which Programs can I be involved in? The foundation provides holistic care for these needy people through a range of activities. These include: - The provision of home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS, free blood testing and counselling for HIV/AIDS, and the provision of condoms to the sexually active;
- An empowerment program for widows who are infected or affected with HIV/AIDS to assist them to earn some income;
- An education and awareness scheme to increase knowledge about HIV/AIDS in educational institutions and in the wider community; and
- The caring and support of orphans using sponsorship schemes.
These activities currently occur at the three centers of Ndejje village in Wakiso district, Katebo in Mpigi district, and at Ndejje village in Luwero district. Each volunteer is free to sample any of the following program activities depending on each volunteer’s skills and flexibility. The Programs that ACF provide are: 1. Children Education Program 2. Primary Health Care Program 3. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Counselling Program 4. Women Empowerment Program 5. Community Development Program For details, see the programs menu on the navigation bar. You can become involved in a range of programs that appeal to your personal interests as some of the projects run in the morning or the afternoons only. If you are unsure of which project you would like to become involved with, you can spend a few days visiting each of the different programs to find out more about what each does. The ACF is a very flexible and organic organization and looks to constantly develop and extend its range of activities reflecting the skills of the incoming volunteers. If you have suggestions or ideas as to how to increase the scope of the organization’s activities feel free to share them. ACF strive to provide a better future for some of the most vulnerable children in Uganda. The need is expansive, 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, is 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 religious reasons
- to keep skills alive
- to be an agent of change
- for fun!
...then ACF is the right place to volunteer! Program CostsEven though you are generously giving up your time to volunteer with our foundation, there is a participation fee that you have to pay. This is to cover your living expenses during your stay in Uganda. As the ACF is a non-profit organization some of your program costs also help us to continue our work with less fortunate people in the community and continue expanding our community development projects. This fee must be paid directly to our bank account as soon as you have been accepted into the program prior to your departure for Uganda. Volunteers must stay for a minimum of four weeks, and can stay for an indefinite period of time. For those intending to stay for more than six months special arrangements will be made for your stay and upkeep. The program costs for individuals are as follows: - USD$250 per week per person
- USD$300- This is a one time development fee which the volunteer is required to donate upon arrival to help fund ACF projects.
However, if you are coming in groups of 10 or more people, the program costs are slightly different. The program costs for groups are as follows: - USD$250 per week per person
- USD$200 per person- This is a one time development fee which each volunteer is required to donate upon arrival to help fund ACF projects.
Conditions of Volunteer placement- The program fees and donations are non-negotiable. All of your placement fees are used to cover your lodging, local transportation to the project sites and food expenses during your stay in Uganda.
- Volunteers must stay a minimum of four weeks.
- Volunteers must arrive on either the first or last Sunday of each month
- For a volunteer to be accepted into the program, as soon as possible they must email a scanned copy of a current police check to the ACF and then post the original document to the ACF’s PO box address as soon as possible, BEFORE they arrive in Uganda.
Participation Fee includes: - Airport pick-up upon your arrival.
- Food (three meals per day)
- Accommodation- Most houses have no running water or electricity and in this case you would have to make do with a bucket shower, pit toilet and gas lanterns. Volunteers will share accommodation in a compound with the host family/and or other volunteers depending on which program they choose to be involved in
- Some in-country transport expenses to the project sites only.
Participation Fee does not include: - Airfares getting to Uganda, travel insurance, vaccines and other medicines
- Visa, which can be obtained from the Ugandan embassy in your home country before arrival, or upon arrival at Entebbe International airport. Visas cost US$50 for a maximum of 3 months. If you are planning to stay for longer than 3 months, you can renew your visa in Kampala before the date of expiry
- Extra In-country transport costs for volunteers leisure tours especially on weekend.
- Drinking water, which will cost approximately US$7 per week which will buy 2 litres of water per day. Shortly after your arrival you will be taken to Kampala to buy water and any other supplies that you need
- Any additional snacks or gifts that you may wish you buy
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