victorious Children's Ministries Uganda Intership opportunity in Uganda

Internship
description

why you Intern with
us ?

We work with you has
a loving family your college or university to ideal internship for you.

We have a need of
studens/intern to volunteer with Victorious Children’s Ministries. Our ongoing
child development projects allow you to come to Uganda, stay with us, and help
orphaned children with daily life and extra-curricular activities. And you do
not need to have any special qualitfications to come and volunteer with us. The
most important thing you offer these children is love and attention. Our
programs offer a unique opportuni
ty for students and other volunteers to enjoy
the amazing beauty of Uganda, the rich culture, languages and the life-style of
the Ugandan people.

The main aim of
having volunteers is to bring awareness to VCM Uganda, in order to raise more
funds for the children we house here and to get to know other cultures and
exchange languages and culture.

Skills/Qualification
Needed

There is no specific
qualification needed to join VCM volunteer Ministries. However, volunteers must
be flexible and patient. You should have passion and love for children.

Ongoing Projects

Child Care: Help
facilitate and organize activities, games, sing-a-longs and dances as well as
other creativity-based activities (We have some books and games here you can
use or feel free to bring some toys and books to donate and use while you are
here)

We also like to
visit the local playground down the road from our house in Kawanda. Here we
enjoy playing football, netball, jump roap, hoola hoop and lots of other fun
running games.

Household Projects:
Helping with cleaning, cooking and gardening.

Helping in
Administration work and Management:Prepare Budgets and project proposals, help
writing grant letters, setting up and maintaining personal files for the
children.

Community work: Help
with planning up-coming building projects including our future primary school
and child development center.

School Terms:The
children attend school for three terms a year

First term begins
the first week of February through the last week in April.

Second term begins
mid May through the first week in August.

Third term begins
the first week of September through the end of November.

If you are
interested in teaching abroad we currently have a partnership with a local

primary school that
some of our children attend. In return for owing some small tuition fees for
our children who are not yet sponsored, we have agreed to recommend some of our
volunteers as part-time teachers. This is a wonderful opportunity for students who
are studying to become a teacher or social worker.

We are also in
connection with the local Health Center.

Music dance and
drama

If you are
interested in volunteering as a health care provider.

please inquire about
this unique community outreach opportunity.

Accomodations

While you are in
Uganda, you can choose to stay right here in Kawanda with us as our guest of
honor. We have a small one bedroom/one bath house located on our compound where
you will enjoy privacy during the morning and night. We also make sure your
weekly accomodation fee of $75 includes funding for our services of cooking
three meals a day (please feel free to email us a any diet specifications or
food requests), plenty of hot coffee or tea for drinking, we offer to wash your
clothes and clean your floors and make your bed daily. Please note this fee
does not include transportation to and from Entebe (EBB) airport which costs
around $50 one way.

We are located off a
main road in the Wakiso Dist. but our compound is very safe as we have a gate
around our three houses that we make sure lock every night. We also have a
guard dog named Rain whom we love very much because he’s our family pet and
also our security.