International Volunteers working alongside local volunteer teams, will help on sensitization of communities about Environmental and Nature Conservation basics . They will also have an opportunity to train in constructing rain water harvesting tanks using waste plastic bottles as bricks to further boost the rural communities' training teams in Kayunga District of Uganda.
Construction of rain water tanks with waste plastic bottles is an innovation by BUVAD, used to conserve the environment and nature, mobilizing end user communities to prudently reuse the accumulating waste plastic bottles in Uganda and the rest of the world .
There is room for both long and short-term volunteers to run workshops and work on other projects.There is a lot of room for independence and decision-making when you
volunteer for BUVAD.
BUVAD assumes you will have deep passion on the subjects you wish to create workshops on . This is something that we will confirm as we go through the application process with each other. What we need over and above your valuable ability is that you as an individual are able to act with a high degree of responsibility, love, passion, independence and that you are by nature a proactive person. We already know by first hand experience that most people willing to volunteer possess these traits.
Typical day
Volunteers will work from Monday up to Saturday of every week, working 8 hrs a day .
However a volunteer is free to discuss plans for more rest days, may be to make a tour visit to some of the tourist attraction sites or relaxation centers in Uganda at their own discretion on the first day of arrival. Most workshops are 50% theoretical and 50% practical on a daily basis.
Free-time activities
There a a lot of things todo: Visiting local families, reading novels, watching Television movies, Clubbing in the evenings...
Our volunteer residence and focal areas are located near several tour attractive locations you will want to make part of your schedule. Many can be done in a day and some you can make overnight trips out of.
- Kayunga Town where you can find music and dancing at the recreation center, cinema halls, trading and restaurants, Clubbing in the evennings (7km)
- Kangulumira, includes fishing and the Kalagala Waterfalls along the Nile, among other sites (20km)
- Busaana, along the Nile and includes fishing and a ferry crossing into Jinja (20km)
- Bujagali Waterfalls, for rafting. Good tourism facilities (40km)
- Lake Kyoga, located in Bbaale (60km)
- There also Hotel lodges for camping along The Nile river within Kayunga District over the weekends and other free days.
Have fun along The Nile River banks at Kalagala water Falls site in Kayunga District.
Program Requirements
Included Services
Before your journey
On-site services
- - Admin cost support for min stay (2 weeks) : $150
- - Feeding costs each week $35and for min stay (2 weeks): $70
- - Project Materials (donation) : Will depend on volunteer/s' capacity
Our Centre, an offered residence owned by one of the volunteer staff,
with sizeable space, has a guest room inside the main house and 2 guest
rooms outside the main house but closed up in a wall fence with a
lockable gate.
The wash room and the toilets are located in the backyard. There is a
porch overlooking the front of the guest rooms where you can sit to read
a novel in your free time, make gymnastics early in the morning and or
watching the moon and the stars at night. A bigger group of the
volunteers can be hosted in beneficiary community families that provide a
typical African setting.
Program Fees
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