Busoga Integrated Development and Care Foundation
Promoting sustainable healthcare & facilitating development
Volunteer Corps Program.
Volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds and provide skills training, technical consultancy and general support. You can make a real difference to people’s lives by getting involved in our community-based projects in the rural areas. Volunteers will participate in a number of community-based activities. Each day, volunteers meet at the projects' head office, take part in daily discussions, and develop daily strategies and follow-up on the projects' current plans. As the Care and Support Project's primary aim is offer basic needs to orphans and other vulnerable children, households or institution, taking care of orphans and/or other vulnerable children, volunteers will travel to the rural communities - accompanying members of the staff. Some activities include: distributing basic supplies (such as food, soap and clothes, beddings, administering medication, as well as assisting on a housing project, helping complete or build a new classroom for a village school and houses for vulnerable families as well as protecting a water sources or providing rain water harvesting facilities to schools and health units.
There are no specific qualifications needed for this particular project. However, volunteers interested in participating in this project should have a passion for caring for others and a willingness to share their time, energy and compassion with these most vulnerable families in the rural setting.
Responsibilities of volunteers:
- Raise funds for the volunteering activities
- make travel arrangements and pay for plane ticket at own expense
- Obtain immunizations, medications and health insurance at own expense
- Obtain visa at own expense
- Airport drop, airport taxes at own expense
- Pay for in country living and transport costs
Responsibilities of BIDCAF:
- Develop a work plan for the volunteer
- Meet volunteer at the airport
- Help volunteer find accommodation
- Assist volunteer with initial orientation to location of service (such as figuring out local transportation)
Office Address:
P.O.Box 90,
Iganga
Uganda
+256
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