African Child Foundation

African Child Foundation has many volunteer holiday and vacations opportunities for mission groups, families, couples or individuals who are interested in helping AIDS orphans and widows while on safari or vacation holiday in the heart of Africa. You will get to meet local people, live in a village for a few days and experience local cultures, while volunteering part of your time assisting the local communities.
“We support Responsible tourism”
Our volunteer holidays and vacations are aimed at using volunteer tourists labor and funding to alleviate poverty in among the local communities, protect cultures and ways of life, forests, environment wild life, and promote sustainable tourism mindful of the needs of the local people while at the same time giving the volunteer a great time and an Adventurous Safaris.

Whether you are a Construction worker, a painter, an administrator, a manager, an evangelist, a pastor or an individual with no specific skill - your time and knowledge and skill will be put to great use!
Our goal is to empower local communities through the volunteer’s skills and financial donations. We believe that local communities are in the best position to determine their needs, and we provide volunteers to help them achieve their goals. Volunteering is one of the great ways to contribute to the global community and gain experience, and also fosters personal growth. Therefore whether you would like to take a short term mission or vacation or a prolonged gap year, ACF provides challenging and affordable volunteers safari holiday programs.

Who is eligible to apply?

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 important, 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 selects a service program that best employs their experience and interests, and a program where the volunteer feels engaged in a community project of lasting benefit. 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. Most Ugandan cultures are very friendly though some provide a greater degree of predictability than others due to cultural norms.

Volunteers Program Opportunities

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 and 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 fun!
• for religious reasons
• to keep skills alive
• to be an agent of change
...then ACF is your rightful place to be!

How to Apply
There are no formal qualifications required to participate in this program, but volunteers must have a willingness to help and share a passion for working with those in need. Most participants are aged between from 16 but there is no upper age limit for participation. Early enrollment allows you extra time for visa processing and also allows you to make your travel arrangements earlier and perhaps more affordably.
PROGRAM LENGTH: The program length is minimum two weeks and maximum six months.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
-Be 16 years or older
- Have no major health problems
- Have no criminal record
- Self motivation, patience, open minded and respect of local culture, traditions and dress code.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE: 8-12.30 pm and 2.00pm -5 pm. Weekends are free. Volunteers can pursue their own interests on weekends
Program Cost is: • $250 USD per week

Our program fees are 50%-60% cheaper than other international volunteer programs. We manage to keep our program fees low and still have enriching programs due our use of in country resources and paperless communication as much as possible.

Program fee caters for the followings:
1. Room& Board.
2. In- country support, guidance and administration.
3. Promoting & supporting the work of the organizations we work with.
4. Marketing our programs.
5. Web development and program maintenance
6. Logistical costs.
7. Cost of answering & making calls, e-mailing and producing literature.

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: Home stay with host families. You will be provided with your own room and 3 meals a day. The meals will be nutritious and local. Vegetarians are catered for. This arrangement ensures that you get fully immersed in to the culture and at the same time have your own privacy.

For more information visit our website www.acfuganda.org or contact our offices in Uganda:

African Child Foundation
P.O. Box 29523, Kampala, Uganda
East Africa
Tel: +256 782 626 342 or +256 414 386 151
Email: afchild@utlonline.co.ug

Or contact: Jim Nadiope – CEO, African Child Foundation at email: jim_nadiope@hotmail.com