EACO Uganda’s volunteer experience is a unique opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others and to be a part of the movement toward social change. This experience comes with great potential for you to transform your own life as well, as it can help you to develop a wide network and range of skills. EACO is committed to ensuring all voluntary experiences are as mutually beneficial as possible. Our staff will welcome you as a family member and give you the chance to gain interpersonal communications with people of the community.
We look forward to hear from you and join us in a truly inspirational experience with an organization that is fully devoted to creating better lives for people.
EACO developed a program to receive its international volunteers. The program includes:
Start Date:
You can start volunteering at any time of the year. Application needs to be submitted two weeks in prior the start date.
Placement & Working Duration:
Minimum: 1 week / Maximum: 52 weeks
Minimum: 12 hours / Maximum: 50 hours / Per Week
Start Date:
You can start volunteering at any time of the year. Application needs to be submitted two weeks in prior the start date.
Transportation:
Airport pick up and drop off at Entebbe Airport.
Accommodations:
In Mukono, EACO can arrange for volunteers to stay with a local family or in a guest house. In Maracha the volunteer must stay with the project co-ordinator in the area.
Deliver office support, assist with administrative tasks such as budgeting, accounting, updating paperwork, and maintaining personnel files on children and other beneficiaries. Bring your organizational experience to bear in a different setting.
Project Management
Develop and write project proposals, write grant proposals, help in fundraising, sensitizing the community about health and sanitation. Write progress reports on EACO projects. Bring your project skills to enhance our skills.
We are in need of volunteers for the economic development, community nutrition & health, gender equality and sustainability of rural populations of Mukono and based on the research reports we shall be able to compile a report and look for funds to support and solve the problem in the area of study.
Medical Volunteers
Volunteers in the field that field can help to Volunteers will help to strengthen Sexual and Reproductive Health for youth through:
[ ] Capacity Building and Training o To train service providers for Adolescent Friendly SRH Services provision o To train peer educators on communication and counseling skills
[ ] Institutional Framework o To set up adolescent Reproductive Health Clubs for mobilization both in and out of school adolescents for life skills and other positive reproductive health behaviors.
[ ] Information Education and Communication o To develop and distribute relevant IEC materials to all RH services delivery points
[ ] Adolescent SRH Service Delivery o To establish Adolescent Friendly SRH services at all delivery points o To initiate community based recreation activities for adolescents o To explore avenues of setting up income generating activities for adolescents
Teach math, language, science, personal health, and other topics at schools. Organize day-care activities in the roles of teachers, camp counselors and day care workers. Good for people who love children. Bring your games, songs, musical instrument and enthusiasm to the village!
Peers Education
Deliver training to staff and volunteers on issues relevant to the activities where EACO is involved. Help enhance our knowledge base. Be a co-coordinator of one of our peer education projects or help develop a new peer education project. Be a teacher of teachers.
Volunteer have to establish a monitoring and evaluation system to inform decision-makers. They need to know whether the enormous amount of hardware installed in the last ten years is kept in a functioning condition, and act accordingly; whether the hygiene awareness created in the schools is beginning to translate into changed behavior, starting with hand washing; whether it then starts increasingly to influence home-based behavior and that of pupils’ families. Decision-makers also need to be aware of the continuing need for funding, when the big donors leave.
Train Community Members on Water & Sanitation
Volunteers are needed to carry out training of the community on all aspects of the and covering the following activities:
[ ]Hygiene promotion
[ ]Construction of latrines Hand pump installation and maintenance
[ ]The links between water, sanitation and health
[ ]The importance and main elements of hygiene-promotion
[ ]The complexities in delivering safe water and sanitation
[ ]Reporting and monitoring
[ ]Disease surveillance
[ ]Coordination and partnerships
[ ]Water quality testing and monitoring
[ ]Environmental sanitation
Save Bees by Training The Community in Biodiversity & Conservation
Provide assistance to our projects that create and implement income-generating opportunities for women, children, youth and the elderly.
Help Establish Income-Generating Activities.
Teach math, language, science, personal health, and other topics at schools. Organize day-care activities in the roles of teachers, camp counselors and day care workers. Good for people who love children. Bring your games, songs, musical instrument and enthusiasm to the village!
Train Farmers
Give our rural beneficiaries information and training on applicable technology for best-of-breed agricultural practices, land conservation, food security, bee keeping and others. Bring your knowledge and ability to teach and work the land.
Requirements
18+
Volunteers must be 18 years old.
Health Requirements
Vaccine for yellow fever and Volunteers are advised to take anti-malaria pills.
Insurance
Volunteer’s responsibility.
Qualifications
EACO is in need of skilled professionals that can help the organization to improve and develop, but our team welcomes the enthusiasm and commitment of all willing volunteers.
Equipment/Clothing
Suitable clothes for hot/rainy climate. EACO is a well respected organization, both in the community and internationally, so we ask that volunteers are clean and presentable when undertaking their work in the community.
Cost
A Suggested minimum donation of £130 per week (USD 168 or 143 Euros) to cover the program expenses. That amount should be transferred directly to our bank account at least two weeks before your placement.
