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Organisation: SAF-TESO
Closing date: 6 April 2014
Job type: Internship / Volunteer
Salary: £100 - 200
Salary notes: We do not pay salaries
Location: SOROTI UGANDA.
Background Information:
SAF-Teso (Shine Africa Foundation-Teso) is a non-governmental organization
(NGO) that welcomes volunteers from both Uganda and internationally. We have
many programs in place working in the eastern Teso region of Uganda. We want to
incorporate in our team volunteers who can bring us fresh ideas, new skills and
enthusiasm to our organization.
Our projects are open for all volunteers, and we work hard to tailor a
volunteer program to individual skills and preferences. We do not require any
specific skills but look for committed enthusiastic people who will be willing
to learn, contribute and immerse themselves in life here. Being the official
language of Uganda we do require proficient communication in English. We
welcome volunteers of all nationalities, faiths and beliefs of 18 years and
above.
We have a wide range of activities that volunteers can get involved with
from practical field work to administrative and fundraising tasks for both
short and long stays. Our team of staff is incredibly friendly and welcoming
and they will endeavour to ensure your time here is as enjoyable and worthwhile
as possible. Volunteering with us can give you the opportunity to enhance our
organisation and the lives of people within the local communities, exchanging
experience, knowledge and ideas, together with learning new skills. We would
like you to be able to experience some of our Iteso culture and hope to form
close friendships so you can continue to support us and return if you wish to
do so. We will make sure that as much as there is some hard work during your
time here, there is a lot of fun and socializing too.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Shine Africa’s main programs are Public Health, Education, Agriculture and
Income Generating Activities, Environmental, Human Rights and Social Justice.
Please look at our organization summary or the website for more details on
specific projects that we are carrying out.
Regardless of your background or previous experience, there is flexibility
of what project/s you would like to get involved with.
We have identified some areas that you may wish to focus on:
• Medical/ health – those with some medical training/ background/ interest,
to help in rural health centres, hospitals and provide health education to
different groups within the community and work with our HIV and malaria
projects
• Education/ teaching – education of our Functional Adult Learning and Life
Skills groups. We can also link you to local primary and secondary schools
where some of the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) we support attend
classes
• Sports – help in setting up and coordinating sport teams/ clubs among our
young people
• Music, Dance and Drama (MDD) – help our peer educators with MDD sessions
for both HIV awareness and for general enjoyment
• Workshops and training – help train our peer educators, staff and
community in areas you are knowledgeable in and feel would be beneficial eg IT
skills, vocational skills, financial and business skills etc
• Agriculture – help the local communities with their small scale farming
• Management and administration – this involves helping our staff with the
day to day running of the organisation and any new improvements you can bring.
This includes monitoring and evaluation of projects, marketing, advertising,
social networking, legal affairs, website designing, proposal writing and staff
training
• Fundraising – both helping us with local fundraising ideas and larger
scale proposal writing, fund mobilization and lobbying
• Business planning and management.
• Photography, web designing and graphic design.
• Human resource management and administrative work.
• Public health internships/volunteering.
• Project planning and management volunteering/internships field work.
• Monitoring and evaluation project work of our project work
• Micro-finance
• Charity work
• Human rights promotion-awareness, advocacy ,capacity building and
training in human rights
• Community mentoring.
• Community empowerment.
• Environment Management activities-awareness, tree planting(agro-forestry)
and training local committees
Some additional internships/volunteering positions required.
• We also need volunteers /interns who have skills in; accounting/finance
management, photography, and website designing, English teaching, math,
science, Art and craft teachers.
• Volunteers with skills like website designing, photography, making short
documentary about our projects in slum areas are welcome.
• Teachers who can teach English (basic conversation) skills to grown up
girls and women are welcome,
• Volunteers who can teach specific skills to women like making artificial
jewellery, paper bags, knitting stitching etc are welcome.
• Medical volunteers who are interested in learning /observing various
surgical procedures, shadow doctors in various departments of hospital s are
welcome.
We welcome volunteers to get involved with as many areas of our
organisation as they wish and create individually tailored programs. Your input
and ideas are valuable to us and if you have a specific new project in mind or
skills you wish to share we can try to cater for this. For those able to do
some fundraising activities prior to their stay and would like to see the funds
go to a particular cause, please feel free to discuss this with us.
On arrival you will have a day of orientation. This will give you time to
get settled, for us to show you around, give you all the information you will
need and for you to raise any question or concerns to us.
SAF-Teso also hosts International volunteers and engages volunteers in all
program areas above; in addition there is also research work.
More on www.shineafricafoundation.org
Kindly connect the
organisation to International donors, volunteers and friends who can come and
work with us, support the organisation.
Send an email to us on:
safteso@gmail.com/shineafricaministries@gmail.com
How to apply
You can apply through online
by filling our volunteer application form or just send email to our address.
Further details
Region: 10. Rest of the
world
Area of work: Projects and
programmes
Contact website: http://www.shineafricafoundation.org
Contact phone:
+256-701-929754+256-772-854991
Contact email:
safteso@gmail.com
