Volunteer in Uganda in your gap year or student holidays

Join with other school & university leavers, or during your student holidays, on a Volunteer Uganda project to:

• Take part in a unique, life-changing experience
• Make a real difference to peoples' lives in rural Uganda
• Learn new skills that future employers will value
• Join safaris & expeditions you will remember forever
• ...and have fun with new like-minded friends

Volunteering is open to all. Don't worry if you feel you haven't got the right experience, our team is here to help you before you go and while you are in Africa to give you the support and training you need.

Just go the the Enquire & book page to find out more and reserve your place for the experience of a lifetime.

What makes Volunteer Uganda unique?

Volunteer Uganda is a UK based organisation with deep roots in Uganda, working tightly with the charity CHIFCOD.

We run a camp where gappers live in comfortable log-cabin bandas while they play several valuable roles in alleviating poverty in the surrounding area. Gappers will be allocated roles teaching and supporting teachers at local schools where they will teach mainly English, IT and PE. They will also be involved in HIV prevention projects in the area.

What is the camp like?

At the Camp, food is provide by or chef who cooks a combination of local and western dishes. Breakfast and dinner are eaten at the camp and lunch is either eaten at school or is a packed lunch. Water is filtered on site for drinking. We keep soft drinks and beers that people can buy cheaply on a tab. When we aren't away on safari, we have big barbecues on the weekends. Teachers from the school sometimes invite our volunteers for dinner. Nearby there is a small bar called Rogers, where we go to watch football matches.

In the evenings in the camp we eat dinner and relax. Occasionally we have camp fires, people generally chill and socialise playing board games and, while the light is still good, we play volleyball, rounders and football with local children and teenagers on the pitch directly next to the site.

The view from the camp looks out over the enchanting Bwindi Impenetrable Forest which houses 300 of the 600 remaining mountain gorillas in the wild. In the camp we are on the fringe nature with baboons sometimes visiting our borders.