PROJECTS
1.KICK HIV/AIDS SOCCER PROJECT
Because Soccer is like a universal language, TASAAGA uses the Power of Soccer in the education about HIV/AIDS and health promotion among young people between the age of 6 and 15 years.The Soccer programme provides Ugandan young people with the knowledge, life skills, and support to live HIV-free. We continuously improve our innovative HIV prevention and life-skills curriculum, share our program and concept effectively, and utilize the popularity of soccer to increase our impact.
(Picture taken by Christian Alexandar our former Volunteer from USA)
Through organised soccer trainning workshops TASAAGA engages children in activities designed to raise awaness, promote prevention and reduce stigma and discrimantion associated with HIV/AIDS.
TASAAGA organises soccer workshops for the children between the age of 6 and 15 years who are attending the organisation's orphanage schools throughout year. Each workshop lasts for only for six weeks.
- The first workshop runs from the first week of January to the second week of Febraury.
- The Second workshop runs from the 1st week of March to the second week of April.
- The third workshop runs from the first week of May to the second week of June.
- The fourth workshop runs from the first week of July to the second week of August.
- The fifth workshop runs from the first week of September to the second week of October.
- The Sixth workshop runs from the first week of November to the second week of December.
Soccer/Football Coach Volunteers are welcome to apply now as an individual or as a group. For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers administration, accommodation withrunning water and three meals a day during work.
TASAAGA has 3 support centers for orphans and other children disadvantaged by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and poverty. These centers have children from the age of 4 to 15 years old. Through these centers, TASAAGA intends to empower these children to become self-reliant as they grow into adult-hood.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
A). VOLUNTEER AS A TEACHER ASSISTANT
If you are looking for an internship or volunteer experience working in a humanitarian work related to disadvantaged children, this project is best for you. At these children's centers you can volunteer or intern as a teacher assistant who will be able to help by either reading to the little children, teaching games, music, dances,mathematics, geography or social studies, healthy science, drawing and painting, teaching english or french as a foreign language to the older children,
helping with office work like reports writing or typing them which reports are shared with government departments and other partners.For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers administration, accommodation, running water and three meals a day.
B). VOLUNTEER AS AN HIV/AIDS EDUCATOR TO THE CHILDREN
The centers also have HIV/AIDS education for the elder children to prepare them for HIV protection as they grow into adulthood. This will involve organising HIV/AIDS education and awareness at the center targeting the children and organising other community outreach HIV/AIDS education sessions targeting adults who are some times guardians for these children.
As an intern or volunteer you can also help with daily updating of class or activities attendence registers and ensuring that activities or programs at the center are followed according to agreed time frame or plan by all those working at the center.
For a psychologist these centers are the best places for you to use your skills and training by providing counseling and guidance to these these disadvantaged children as most of them have gone into different psychological challenges and will very much need your help. For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers administration, accommodation with running water and three meals a day.
C) Volunteer/intern in child care and counseling
At the children's center you will have the opportunity to help children in need. Children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, children who have been abused by their parents and children whose parents are not able to provide for them. These kids need love, attention, life skills, and education so they can have successful futures free from poverty and filled with the same opportunities as others. As a volunteer you will be a counselor and mentor by becoming a big brother or sister to kids in a children's center. You will work alongside local staff to help with classroom teaching and homework help, childcare, and the daily operational running of the center. 
Volunteers are also encouraged to initiate their own work by organizing arts and crafts, music, dance, games, sports activities, and day trips for the children. This role is suitable for a caring, motivated, and self-directed person who has a love for children and has childcare. For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers accommodation with running water and three meals a day.
3. GROW (Growing Resources, Opportunities and Wealth) Project
GROW which is a microfinance project for supporting rural women most especially single mothers or widows to start income generating businesses for sustaining their families and educating their children.
The project finds a group of women who are not working, trains them in basic business management skills and gives them micro loans to start a business of their choice. The women are put in a group of six who are meant to support each other especially in finding solutions challenges to their businesses. Members in a group are not supposed to have the same business as this might result into competing against each other instead of giving support.
After the training which is conducted by a skilled trainer hired by TASAAGA, a group of six women is given collateral free loans of 100,000 Uganda
Great thanks go to Lisa
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
A) Volunteer/intern with this project
This project needs volunteers as field project officers. As a project officer, you will be tasked to work with our local based staff to hold meetings with these women, visit and assess progress of their businesses, discuss challenges and solutions to challenges, identify more skills that they may require for the better running of their businesses, Identify and assess/evaluate other women groups that may need to be helped by the project, educate about the project procedures and once they show interest plan and organize for their training, guide them to make business plans assess them for feasibility and the organization will give out loans to those seem feasible but also help the rest to revise their plans.
But because TASAAGA's mission is to prevent further spread of HV/AIDS and helping those who have been affected by this scourge, our project staff including volunteers integrate HIV/AIDS education to all GROW activities and this involves educating the women about the various ways of preventing the spread of HIV, mobilising them for HIV testing, giving out free condoms and encouraging them to pass the information to their male counterparts/partners.Ths project is located in a very secure place and is just 10 Kilometers from Kampala the Capital city of Uganda. For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers administration, accommodation with running water and three meals a day.
4.HIV/AIDS EDUCATION IN SSESE ISLANDS
Although there is a lot to learn from Uganda’s comprehensive and timely campaign against the AIDS epidemic, emphasising Uganda’s success story must not destract from the devastating consequences that AIDS continues to have across the country: personally, socially and economically. There are currently an estimated 940,000 people living with HIV in Uganda, and a further 1.2 million children who have been orphaned by AIDS.The aim of TASAAGA's HIV/AIDS program is to decrease the spread of HIV through raising awareness and education, increasing access to homecare, and providing emotional support to those affected by HIV/AIDS within the community. Volunteers/Interns in this program have the opportunity to work in a community HIV/AIDS organization to assist with homecare visits to HIV positive people, and educate and counsel community and school groups and individuals. This role is suitable for a caring, motivated, and self-directed person. Medical training is not necessary for all aspects of the program, but a background in HIV/AIDS and basic health care is an added advantage. For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers administration, accommodation with running water and three meals a day during work
5. MEDICAL CLINIC IN SSESE ISLANDS
Malaria, typhoid, pneumonia, and tetanus are treatable diseases, yet many still die in Ssese Islands as a result of not receiving proper medical care. Government-run hospitals and medical clinics are ill-equipped to handle the volume of people in need of care. As a medically qualified volunteer you can help by sharing your medical skills and working alongside local staff to provide those in need with basic medical care. Volunteers have the opportunity to work in the areas of general medical practice, maternal health, minor surgery, and laboratory work. This role is suitable for self-directed, caring people who are medically qualified. For an individual the volunteer fee is US$100 per week which covers administration, accommodation with running water and three meals a day during work.