Volunteer Opportunities by Project:

KICK HIV/AIDS Project

As a volunteer, you teach important life skills such as discipline, team work, confidence, leadership, self-expression, tolerance, co-operation, and respect through soccer/football and other relate activities. In addition you will be providing mentoring and will become a role model for the children we work with at TASAAGA.

Sports volunteers will organize coaching sessions, games and matches for the children, supervise, and run training sessions, provide soccer experience and advice, encourage and support the HIV/AIDS affected children through the sport.

In addition to soccer/football training there are other extracurricular activities attached to this project that involve HIV/AIDS education to kids.

Qualifications: No prior coaching experience or qualifications are required, but a basic understanding of the game and/or playing experience is necessary. You also need to be healthy and of reasonable fitness is required.

Working hours: Monday-Friday; 4-6 hours a day; Occasional work at weekends but usually free for personal time and travel.

Current Volunteer Positions Available

• Soccer/Netball Coach
• Youth HIV/AIDS Educator
• Program Manager

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Support the Children Program

TASAAGA OVC Center & Primary Schools

Volunteers at the TASAAGA OVC Center/Primary Schools can help by reading to the lower primary and nursery classes, teaching games, music, dance, mathematics, geography, social studies, health science, arts and crafts, or English. If teaching is not for you volunteers can also help with office work like writing, typing, or marking reports as well as working on shared reports that are presented to the government and other partners.

Kampala - Karamojong Street Children

Current Volunteer Positions Available

• Primary School Teacher (P1-P7) (English, Math, Social Studies, Science)
• After-school Sports Coach
• School Nurse
• Art, Music, Dance and Drama Teacher
• Teaching Assistant (Nursery School)
• HIV/AIDS Youth Educator
• School/Center Administration
• General Construction Activities

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TASAAGA Project GROW

Volunteers are tasked to work with our local based staff to: hold meetings with the micro-loan members, visit and assess progress of their businesses, and discuss challenges and solutions to challenges. In addition, volunteers help identify more skills that they may require for the better running of their businesses, assess/evaluate other women groups that may benefit from the project, and educate about the project procedures.

Volunteers working with Project GROW will also 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.

Current Volunteer Positions Available

• Program Coordinator
• Home Support Visit
• Project Manager
• Business Educator/Consultant

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TASAAGA Ssese Island Projects

Volunteers/Interns in this program have the opportunity to work in an isolated island community to assist with home-care visits to HIV positive individuals, educate and counsel community members and school groups. 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. The medical volunteers help by sharing their medical skills and working alongside local medical staff to provide basic medical care. Medical opportunities are available in the areas of general medical practice, maternal health, minor surgery, eye care, dental care, and laboratory work.

Current Volunteer Positions Available

• Medical (Doctor, Nurse, Dentist, EMT, Etc.)
• HIV/AIDS Educator
• Primary School Teacher
• Project Grow Volunteer - Business Development
• *NEW 2011 - Project Safe Birth Emergency Care Teacher

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How much does it cost to volunteer with TASAAGA?

Please note these fees are subject to change due to resource availability.

• One (1) week: £100 English Pounds or $150 USD
• Two (2) weeks: £200 English Pounds or $300 USD
• Three (3) weeks: £300 English Pounds or $450 USD
• Four (4) weeks (one month): £400 English Pounds or $600 USD
• Six (6) weeks: £540 English Pounds or $850 USD

Longer volunteer/internships up to 2 years can be arranged at £90 English Pounds or $135 USD/week beyond the first four (4) weeks. Note: week = 7 days

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How do I apply to volunteer for TASAAGA?

We are currently working on an online application, in the mean time all you have to do is drop us an e-mail at info@tasaaga.org, please provide the following information:

1. Full Name:
2. Date of Birth:
3. Gender:
4. Nationality:
5. Contact information (e-mail address, phone, mailing address):
6. Do you have any travel experience? If yes, where?
7. Have you ever volunteered overseas? If yes, where and when?
8. Do you speak any other languages?
9. Do you have any health conditions we should be aware of?
10. Which TASAAGA project are you interested in:
11. When would you like to volunteer with TASAAGA?
12. How long would you like to holiday/volunteer/intern with TASAAGA?
13. Please ATTACH your RESUME to your Email - be sure to include schooling and degree subject
14. ** If you are applying for the PROJECT SAFE BIRTH or Ssese Island Medical position please tell us how long you have been a health care professional, in what capacity, are you currently certified, and are you experienced in training others?

For more detailed information about volunteering, fees, and qualifications please see the FAQ's.

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Host a dinner/talk for us!

Now why would you want to host a dinner or a stuffy university talk for us when you are there and we are here??? Well if you support our cause, vision, mission, and objectives and you would like to send us a great and much appreciated donation - this makes it easy! Host a dinner, we will send you a powerpoint of the organisation, or a photo slide show of our projects (your choice) so you can show your friends, work co-workers, strangers off the street, fellow students, whom ever...mix the photos with some great food - we can even send you some local dish recipes (if you chose the dinner) and you get instant cash flowing in from your very inspired and satisfied guests. Then all you have to do is send us that donation and we send you a really big thanks!!!

OH - We almost forgot, one of our directors actually lives part time in the US - (traveling through Europe/Middle East to get there) so if you would like, you can invite her to your dinner or talk - she is even better than a slide show! She can actively respond to questions.

Interested??? Contact Us for the hosting package and we will sit back and watch the cash flow in.

Fundraise for Us!

Dinner not your cup of tea - How about this summer you clean out your closets, garage, kids room, and hold a garage/tag/yard sale for us. You sell off all that stuff that has been collecting dust in your basement and we can buy some much needed school/medical supplies.

Negotiate a percentage of profits from a local business: Have a local business offer to donate a percentage of its profits on a specified day (e.g. a local Mexican restaurant could donate 2% of its profits on Cinco de Mayio). Promise the business owner you will get as many people as you can to their business on the specified day.

Write letters (for grants and trusts) to local foundations, organisations, friends, billionaires...

Hold a community or school bake sale - get your family and friends involved!

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