Community Based Care & Support of AIDS Orphans

Available avenues are HIV/AIDS Prevention, construction of houses, trauma counseling, play, teach them to dance & sing, teach them art & craft, teach them computer, teach them to read & write & how to play games, distribution of food & other non food items.

Child Sponsorship

Volunteers are needed in promoting our child sponsorship program in their own countries to raise the most needed funds to sponsor AIDS & War Orphans into school. Similarly, we need volunteers to work on a Child sponsorship database, raise material support in terms of scholastic materials, used clothes, shoes, & beddings this can be done in collaboration with schools, & churches in your communities while at home.

Sourcing of Humanitarian AID

As volunteer you can help us serve the War affected young people in Northern Uganda with the most needed relief items such as, Blankets, Used Clothes, mosquito nets, Used Shoes, used sports equipments, beddings, scholastic materials etc, contact your church, community schools, rotary clubs, non profits to raise this most needed humanitarian AID.

• Sports Outreach Program: Come join us in teaching Football/Soccer, basketball, volleyball, netball, table tennis, scrabble, baseball and other unique sports to the Ugandan Children/Youth. Through sports clinics and games, you can meet Young people and share your life, experience, skills and faith. Come enjoy the beauty of Uganda, playing the games you love to play, being a part of seeing young peoples changed as you teach them about HIV/AIDS, Drug abuse etc. You can equally help us to collect used sports items from your community schools, churches, sports clubs etc. As you prepare to travel to Uganda, you may choose to carry a few kilograms of sports items, this is a kind request.
• Entrepreneurial Skills training for AIDS Orphans: “Don’t give them fish, but teach them to Fish” We want to discourage young people from a dependency syndrome by giving them skills that will help them to earn a living. As a volunteer you will be required to train our project beneficiaries in entrepreneurial skills such as poultry keeping, agro-forestry, bee keeping, art and crafts etc.
• HIV/AIDS Prevention: Africa Youth Ministries Uganda supports the AB strategy in HIV/AIDS Prevention that is Abstinence & Be Faithful. Volunteers will be required to conduct HIV prevention education to school going young people with the help of our local staff. Here you can share your own life experience, be a role model to these young people.
• Child & Youth Evangelism: Uganda is a nation that supports freedom of worship, the gospel can be shared freely even on the streets. Ugandans are very free & friendly people, whites are referred to as “Mzungu”. Through our school & community evangelism outreach you will have the opportunity to share your life and faith with them in the hopes of starting Bible studies. Come and enjoy being a part of seeing young people come to Christ. As volunteer you will be required to prepare your messages to share with the young people.

• Fundraising: We need volunteers with experience to help us write & submit grant proposals on our behalf, organize fundraising events, dinners etc in your country. As the competition for the little available funding grows stiffer, we have to adjust accordingly to sustain our projects/programs. Used items such as mobile phones, laptops, desktop computers, cameras, video cameras, CD Players & cassettes can be a major source of income when sold locally here. We set up an internet café, which has been earning us approximately US$ 43 per day, which is US$ 1290 per month. This income has been helping us to pay our utility bills, office rent, pay school fees for a few orphaned children and other running costs. Unfortunately due to the prevailing electricity rationing in the country, we were forced to close temporarily. If every volunteer coming to work with us in Uganda would come with a computer or 5 and more used mobile phones, this would help us so much in raising funds for our projects.
• Psycho Social Counseling AIDS/War Orphans: We need volunteers with experience in trauma counseling. As a volunteer you will be required in collaboration with our staff to design & implement appropriate trauma counseling programs & activities targeting war affected Children in Northern & AIDS Orphans.
• Peace-Building/Humanitarian Intervention projects: We need volunteers with prior knowledge or experience in implementing peace-building projects, through sport, art, income generating activities for war affected young people to help them start a new life. Similarly, our major focus in Northern Uganda is reconciliation & forgiveness, as a volunteer you will be required to help us design better programs and projects that enhance reconciliation & forgiveness among young people. This will include peace education for both out of school and school going young people through drama, music, dance etc.
• Annual Children/teens camps August: Africa Youth Ministries Uganda organizes & hosts a teens/youth conference annually in the month of August. Our annual conference rotates around Abstinence, character, morals, evangelism etc. We need volunteer camp facilitators, speakers, fundraisers with prior experience in similar activities.

General Required Information

The cost of living is generally very low in Uganda, if you’re not a heavy spender, on average you will spend US$ 4 on meals, US$ 16 on accommodation and US$ 2 on miscellaneous expenses making a total of US$ 22 per day. A 1 litre bottle of mineral water costs US$ 0.54 & a 350ml bottle of soda goes for US$ 0.38.

Africa Youth Ministries Uganda, has very few free volunteer placements basically reserved for local volunteers & volunteers from the East African Community, these are basically University or High School Students on Holiday and Unemployed young people who have no source of income. The rest of our volunteers pay for their own feeding, accommodation and they contribute to our field project trips transport. We however, provide for food in field trip projects.

Volunteer Policies and Procedures:

• Travel & health insurance is on the account of a Volunteer, therefore before departure from your Country, a health & travel insurance must be procured.
• Being a volunteer affords you the opportunity to role model, educate, and support.
• No volunteer is permitted to use drugs or even smoking and use of alcohol during his tenure with us.
• Volunteers are expected to behave very well while working with us, we do not expect immoral relationship amongst volunteers and between our local staff.
• For safety reasons, on arrival all volunteers are advised to keep personal belongings in the administrative offices
• At all times, all volunteers are advised to follow security advice as given by Africa Youth Ministries Uganda staff.
• Official language used in our projects is English, and interpreters will be availed when needed.
• Do not share personal information such as telephone numbers and addresses and do not offer rides, money, or gifts to project beneficiaries.
• Be respectful of staff and project beneficiaries. Avoid provocative language and attire, dress decently.
• Be respectful of Africa Youth Ministries Uganda limited resources. We are a small not-for-profit, with a very limited materials budget.
• Money may not be handled, exchanged, etc. in open places e.g. in the hotel & community. Please be mindful of locking hotel room doors whenever you walk out even for 1 minute.
• All volunteers must be over the age of eighteen.
• If a physical or verbal altercation occurs, please step aside to allow staff to intervene.

Volunteering involves resources with no time; others are only a couple hours once a year, season-only and still others are year-round active involvement. As you can see, we have a need for your help, in whatever way, and however often, you can offer it. There is no way to run this Organisation without volunteers and community involvement. Your time and resources help bring smiles to thousands of needy & vulnerable children affected & orphaned by AIDS & Armed conflicts in Uganda.

For further information or questions kindly do not hesitate to contact us by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by phone +256-753-200002, due to different time zones, this phone is available 24hrs for both voice calls and sms.