You can also choose to volunteer in Uganda. You will enjoy enchanting natural beauty, large stunning lakes and concentrates range of African fauna such as chimpanzee.
You can also fulfil your dream and passion for improving the lives of others and make a difference for poor communities living in the poverty line.
Uganda as a country is full of captivating and picturesque scenery. It also is a home of a plethora social development tribulations.
We help you arrange for
From EBB airport to Jinja US$54. Same fare from Jinja to EBB airport.
Special rate US$11/Night for 7 nights. Extra person in same room US$7/night.
Permit rates vary depending on the season peaking at US$800/permit in July and August hence the need to acquire them early enough.
BLISSFUL ADVENTURES UGANDA
Uganda has a big number of orphans, high level of illiterate, poor health system which is attributed to its horrific education facilities.
However, being part of volunteering, you can fill the gap in orphanages as a volunteer by helping children with their homework, coaching them in English and Mathematics, cooking food, fetching water.
The more you work with them it helps them to learn how to speak English and it implies attention and dedication to the children.
Our volunteer program as Blissful Volunteer has impacted the development of orphans’ dreams, careers at the orphanage.
As a volunteer you can guide them on what they are supposed to do to achieve their dreams, you can encourage, motivate and give them help and restoration words in communities, schools and the orphanage.
BLISSFULL VOLUNTEERING SITES
>RURAL SCHOOLS VOLUNTEERING
Volunteers giving support in rural schools in Uganda, mainly focus on empowering pupils in the different schools through motivations, career guidance, training and supervising them in the different activities.
Volunteers also help out in meeting the different demands of the studies by giving them help with: scholastic materials like books, pens, pencils, reading materials.
Volunteers also help out in meeting the different demands of the studies by giving them help with: scholastic materials like books, pens, pencils, reading materials.
Volunteers in different schools also can help with teaching the pupils with English as a form to easy communication between the pupils and the volunteers, mentoring of students in the free periods also can help in creating bounds between the students and the volunteers.
Volunteers also help out in supplying sanitary pads to girls in schools, this helps to promote health among the school going girls in order to reduce on girl children school dropouts in Uganda.
>COMMUNITY BASED VOLUNTEERING
Volunteers in communities empower women in different areas of life to ensure community development through women; volunteers are free to teach women different businesses that can rise income to improve on the better livelihood of women in their areas of stay, hence this can easy resource accessibility during work.
Volunteers teach women about their rights as people in the areas they stay in. Volunteers also in communities also help in promoting adulting study in order to reduce on uneducated women in the communities.
>HEALTH CENTER BASED VOLUNTEERING
Volunteers help in different health center sites by giving out support to health workers on site, volunteers take care of mothers, babies, children and elders at the health center.
Volunteers are given guidance by the health workers on what to do in different sites of work at the health, with time at the site volunteers develop skills in specialist support delivery.
Volunteers can give clinical support, training, mentoring and quality care with time and guidance from the health teams on sites.
VOLUNTEER REQUIREENTS
Arrivals and orientations
Tourist visa to the Ugandan Embassy or Consulate in your home country. In some countries you may be able to do it online.
Make sure you allow ample time. Ring the Embassy to check what to do. Do not leave it until the last minute. When you have sent your application
with everything you need to send with it, make sure you telephone them every couple of days until you get it.
Sometimes you can get it on entry at the airport in Entebbe but you can’t count on that. The visa cost is about US$50. You must check in case this has changed.
Transport from the airport to your accommodation in Jinja is only 200,000 Ugandan Shillings (UGX). The return journey to the airport is the same fee.
On the way to your accommodation, the driver will take you to a bank in Jinja on the way to your accommodation so that you can immediately withdraw local currency and not find yourself high and dry without local money.
Accommodation
guesthouses are safe and clean. They are near to all the local attractions, shops, restaurants and night life in Jinja town, but far enough away not to be troubled by noise at night.
If you wish to find your own accommodation, that’s also fine. You will need to tell us where you will be staying so that our driver can collect
you and take you back each day.
You are responsible for booking and paying for your own accommodation.
For Speke Courts Hotel and Africa Guest House the rates per night are 40,000 shillings including breakfast. You must stay 7 nights at least to get that rate.
In Speke Courts Hotel for more than one person in a room each extra person pays 25,000 shillings per night.
Please tell them where you are volunteering and remind them of the special rate.
Speke Courts Hotel serves evening meals and is near Main Street and several restaurants of varying quality.
