VOLUNTEERS PROGRAM

DETAILS OF THIS PROGRAM

Although the original idea was to provide health care services to women and children, the facility now provides several services including volunteer/internship placement. SEDHEC organises volunteer/internship placements allowing people from within and the rest of the world to come and share professional experience as well as familiarising themselves with what Churchill referred to as The Pear of Africa. "The kingdom of Uganda is a fairy-tale. You climb up and at the end there is a wonderful new world. The scenery is different, the vegetation is different, the climate is different, and, most of all, the people are different from anything elsewhere to be seen in the whole range of Africa ... I say: for magnificence, for variety of form and color, for profusion of brilliant life-bird, insect, reptile, beast - for vast scale -- "Uganda is truly the pearl of Africa" Churchill - British Prime Minister.

OPPORTUNITIES

Besides being hosted at St. Edwards, you can also be placed in any project of our choice within Uganda. Current projects include education, health, social and cultural projects. Besides your professional experience, SEDHEC will provide with a range of tour and travel opportunities to these and more places depending on your preference. Impenetrable

1. Lake Victoria

Is the largest lake in Africa and the second largest fresh-water lake in the world. Water sports available on the lake include:

(a) Sport Fishing

(b) Rafting

(d) Cruising

(e) Sailing.

2. Sezibwa Falls

In the middle of the Buikwe runs River Sezibwa, believed by Buganda legend to have been born by one 'Nakangu Tibatesa' the wife of 'Nsubuga Sebwaato' in Kawuna, Ngongwe, around the time of the Christian biblical prophet Isaiah. The river flows into lake Kyoga. The nature of its birth makes the river a cultural symbol of great importance to Buganda's heritage.

3. The machision falls

4. Bwindi impenetrable forest

5. Other Buganda cultural sites located in Mukono District include

6. Queen Elizabethe game park

7. Source of the Nile

8. Gamba Island in the Koome Archpelago in Lake Victoria -for those who enjoy Chimpanzees.

9. Ssekabaka Kintu's Palace at Dindo

10. Nabitimba Cultural Site - Repository for some of Buganda's Cultural Drums

While volunteers are in Uganda

We will:

1. Organize to pick them from the Airport

2. Organise a hotel for them for 1-3 nights to have a Kampala exprience

3. While in Kampala our team will take you arround key places in Kampala and its the soroundings.

4. Depending on each volunteer preference. we organise host families exposing volunteers to the real African Culture while respecting their cultures

The volunteer will be taken to Pope Paul Memorial Hotel, Kampala for a night. This hotel is about 27 KMs from the air port. It has excellent accommodation facilities with tight security of person and property.

Should a volunteer wish to spend more time in Kampala, he/she is assured of free accommodation at our SEDHEC hostel in Gayaza, 12 kilometers from Kampala city.

Working hours

Working hours start Monday to Friday at 8:30 am to 4pm for most projects in Uganda.

Volunteer tasks

We ensure that before coming, each volunteer understand his roles as well as expectations. These are agreed between the volunteer and the host project.

SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEERS

KISITU CORNELIUS

Working with Multi Level Group Abudhabi UAE as a Software Developer and previously worked as an IT Clerk at Carrefour Mall of The Emirates Dubai UAE, also worked as Systems Integrations Engineer at Peak BandWidth Technologies Uganda

Attended Makerere University in Uganda for his Bachelors degree in Software Engineering

VOLUNTEERS PROGRAM

SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEERS

KISITU CORNELIUS

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