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A Safari with Purpose - a - Ugandan Volunteer
Work Trip
14 days that will change you forever...choose
how long you can stay and we will tailor make a schedule just for you.
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Safari is a journey. A volunteer work trip to Africa is an experience that
is part of an inner safari...a Safari of the heart, that will help children in
Africa, but also will do a work in you. Many of our participants return
and again after their first visit to Uganda on a volunteer Work Trip.
We receive many requests for just such a Ugandan Safari, that
at its primary purpose is volunteering in Uganda. The 14 days is a normal
trip taken by most volunteers since it allows them to take off from work during
their times of vacation or school holidays.
You can come by yourself or as a team or group that shares.
We have hosted individuals and groups from Universities, High Schools, Colleges,
and simply interested groups such as medical teams of various types and much
more.
You will work with needy children (mostly from slums) in
various ways depending on your background and training. Mostly you will
need heart and cross cultural understanding that comes to give but also comes to
learn, since Africans have very much to give even when in material goods they
have little. This trip will be a most enriching trip for you...A safari of
the heart.
We
can arrange your trip including flight arrangements at most competitive rates
and send you costs involved for lodging food and more.
Here is a sample itinerary of two
weeks...they can be modified depending on your time availability and your
particular talents and abilities and your interests. Below is a schedule for a
typical team that
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Day 1 Saturday:
Pickup at Entebbe Airport and drive to one of the
Guest Houses at which you will be staying during your time in Uganda.
Depending on your arrival time...there will be an orientation and a meeting
of
Ugandan Staff that will be available to you and guide you around during your
stay in Uganda. If you arrive on a night flight...the orientation will be on
the morning of day two. Lunch and Dinner served at Guest House.
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Day 2 Sunday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to a unique Church,
a Church for slum children that begins at 8 am and is comprised of children
between 3 and 17... there can be 500 of them. It is an awesome thing
to see the children coming down the red clay paths to the place where the
opening time takes place. You will be meeting the children and attend
the various classes that follow and assist with various tasks. You
will serve t he
food to children following church and meet with them. Most of them
speak English so communication will not be a problem. After the
Church for children...you will have an opportunity to walk home with them
and see where they live and meet the family, in many cases it will be an
extended family member, that might be called mom but is actually the sister
of the mother that might have died. Lunch follows and during the afternoon a
trip around town visiting Owino Market, the largest second market in Africa,
the taxi park, where you will see hundreds of vans providing the main mean
of transport in Uganda flowing in and out. A visit to Nakasero Market,
where you will see people buying food and then hawking of most anything that
one can consume. Lastly a visit to Mengo where the palace of the Kabaka
(king of Buganda kingdom resides). Dinner is afterwards at the Guest House
with evening relaxation.
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Day 3 Monday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to building
a house for a needy family. We bring packed lunch and water for the
day. The house will be built with traditionally made bricks from clay
which are both sun dried and baked in a Ugandan style brick oven.
Ugandans will guide you through the job at hand. The building is made
of bricks with corrugated sheet metal roof and some timber for roof and
doors and windows. The house will be in a slum and provide low cost
housing for a family, since one room in which a family of 5 might live may
cost $30 dollars a month. The house will consists of three rooms, a
living room, two bedrooms, one for the adults and one for children, if there
are many children it may have more bedrooms. Dinner that night at the
Guest House.
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Day 4 Tuesday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to the building
site where a packed lunch will be taken. We continue building and then
back to Guest House for dinner.
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Day 5 Wednesday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to the building
site where a packed lunch will be taken. We continue building and then
back to Guest House for dinner.
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Day 6 Thursday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to the building
site where a packed lunch will be taken. We continue building and then
back to Guest House for dinner.
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Day 7 Friday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to the building
site where a packed lunch will be taken. We continue building and then
back to Guest House for dinner. This is completion day of house.
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Day 8 Saturday:
Breakfast at Guest House and then off to building
site for a House dedication ceremony and a get together with family who will
occupy the house. Lunch at Nando's Restaurant and shopping on Buganda Road
for souvenirs.
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Day 9 Sunday:
Early Breakfast and off for a Safari at Murchison
Falls National Park. A visit to a
village church along the way (Service in English), lunch at Masindi Hotel.
Arrive at the Park and visit to the top of the falls for a breath taking
view of the power of Nile river as it plunges down 47 meters and then
peacefully rolls along in the distance. Cross the Nile and check in at Paraa
Lodge. An evening game drive follows afterwards dinner.
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Day 10 Monday:
Breakfast at Lodge and a morning Game
drive...Lunch and an afternoon boat ride viewing game along the Nile.
Dinner at Lodge.
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Day 11 Tuesday:
Breakfast at Lodge and a return to Kampala for dinner and stay at Guest
House.
Lunch along the way.
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Day 12 Wednesday:
Breakfast at Guest House and off to Alpha and
Omega Primary School to assist in class rooms and work with children.
That evening is appreciation dinner and traditional dances, singing and
instruments by children from the school. Eat a traditional Ugandan
dinner while watching the children perform.
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Day 13 Thursday:
Breakfast at Guest House and then off to Jinja for
a choice of rafting from mild to wild on
 the
Nile or visiting the town and visiting a Baby Orphanage located there. Those
not rafting will also see source of Nile and visit Bujagali falls. You
will also take a tour of downtown Jinja with its historic homes both Indian
and African in nature. On the way there you will drive through Mabira Forest
that has been in the news as a large portion of it was supposed to be given
away and turned into a sugar plantation. Fortunately Ugandans protested in
mass and it has remained a forest for the time being.
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Day 14 Friday:
Breakfast at Guest House and a time of sharing
experiences and thoughts about their stay in Uganda...lunch at Lake Victoria
Hotel and swimming if time permits...off to airport for departure back to
your home country. It will surely be a sad time, because by now you
will have fallen in love with Africa, and with Uganda in particular...."The
Pearl of Africa."
I you or your group are interested in planning a trip
such as the above, we can put together an itinerary that fits your schedule and
time available...you can add a safari or leave it out. Most teams add a
safari and leisure time. Whatever you do we can make it fit for you...just
write to us.
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& Omega Tours & Travel PO Box 886,
Kampala - Uganda