Volunteering in Uganda

Matthew Shaughnessy Start Date: Sep 10, 2022 - End Date: Nov 28, 2022

My Travel Story

by: Matthew Shaughnessy Start Date: Sep 10, 2022 - End Date: Nov 28, 2022

The Kahangi is rural village which is bordering with Kibale Forest National park near Fort Portal in western Uganda. The Kahangi village is a rural community facing very serious challenges. Limited educational opportunities, extreme poverty, malnutrition, poor basic health services, and disease such as HIV/AIDS and Bilharzias (contracted from contaminated water) plague these families daily. A significant number of households are single parent homes, generally without fathers who are the traditional income earners. Widows who have little to no marketable skills struggle to provide not only for their own children, but often for children of their extended families and friends who have been orphaned by AIDS. 

 

Most families in Kahangi village earn their living by working as casual laborers in tea farms, while others own small vegetables kiosks where they sell items each day and have now been stripped off their livelihood during this current COVID – 19 pandemic lockdown. Therefore, the funds will be used on several projects areas including the followings: 

Buying buildings materials such as cement, sand, gravel stones, hardcore stones for the construction of a school classroom, a  pit latrine (toilet) and the construction of the water well for the community. 
Buy timber for making school furnitures (desks and chairs ) for the local community primary school.  
Buy Water harvesting/filtration tanks for the community  
Donate seed funds for the start up Village community Bank (not conventional banks).