Giving Yourself.

Give Us Your Time!

You'll be amazed at how much your investment will return.

Donating Your Time

There is more to giving than just handing over money (although we would still like you to do that!).

If you can afford the time, why not consider travelling to Uganda to help with the running of the Centre? You'll be welcomed for several reasons.

How the Kitega Community Centre Benefits

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Your Experience

You will bring your own life experience with you to share with the Centre staff and students.

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Your Skills

Special skills can often be used, especially in construction, agriculture, stock husbandry or some other manual skill.

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Your Time

Even if you think you have no special skills to offer, your time will be valuable to the Centres staff.

You can be a classroom assistant, cleaner, sports coach, play leader, story reader or something else.

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Your Money

Although you will be a volunteer, you will pay the Centre to be one. Kitega runs its own guest house, and hotel charges help to pay for the centre's running costs.

It isn't very expensive by Western standards and is rather basic, but it is comfortable and clean and everything is included.

How You Will Benefit

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You Will Experience Culture Shock

If you have always lived in a Western society you wil be unprepared for what you will find in a poor rural African village.

This will provoke you to re-assess your own life and you may come to realise just how privileged you are in global terms.

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Your Presence Will Be Appreciated

The fact that you have taken the time and made the effort to travel to Uganda to learn about the Kitega Centre will be appreciated.

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You Will Make New Friends

You will meet a large number of very friendly people and will likely make new life-long friends.

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You Will Enjoy It

Your time in the Centre will be enjoyable. It may be hard work and emotionally challenging at times, but it will be enjoyable.

And Uganda is a beautiful country and you may as well see some it while you are there. You can arrange the time to do some tourist trips, e.g. to Lake Victoria and the Source of the Nile.

Things to Consider

We're glad that you are interested enough in volunteering to have read this far. However, it's not the same as booking a two-week holiday in the sun and there are a few things we'd like you to think about first.

This will not be a holiday. You won't be waited on by eager staff catering to your every whim and you will be expected to contribute time and effort.

This will definitely not be a luxury holiday. Facilities are good by local standards, but basic by Western standards. Food is plentiful and nutritious but can be plain. There will be some hot water, but baths are out and long showers are not encouraged. Beds are clean and comfortable but you will be sleeping under mosquito nets.

You will need to be fully vaccinated (and be able to prove it) against typhoid and yellow fever. Tetanus protection is also recommended.

Don't consider just a short stay. Particularly for the sake of the children, who may just be getting to know you well by the end of your stay as you leave again. If you can afford the time, try to allocate a month or more to your trip. You will gain much more from that than from a short visit and it also helps the Centre to budget and allocate resources, and to get the most out of your own abilities.

Still Want To To Do It?

We're glad you haven't been put off by what you have read so far. We can say from personal experience that a visit to Kitega Cumminity Centre is a life-enhancing event.

We do not arrange volunteer visits ourselves so please visit this page at the Kitega web site: http://kitegacc.org/qa/

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