Why LRTT with Volunteer Uganda?

Why this is the best thing you could do with your much deserved summer!

Invaluable Experience

The Volunteer Uganda LRTT Internship grants participants an opportunity to expand their skills and experience base, gain insight into the development/charity sector. If you apply successfully, you will experience Africa at its most inspiring while applying your skills to have a long-lasting tangible impact in one of the poorest countries in the world. This is an opportunity for you to apply your leadership skills while getting the most out of a well-deserved summer. Oh, and it might even get you an amazing job...

Unrivalled Fun/ Travelling experience!

To strike the balance between volunteering and wider adventure there are opportunities to go on Safari, White Water Rafting on the Nile, Chimpanzee and Gorilla Tracking as well as a guaranteed fantastic social life. There will be 40-50 like-minded young people living at our amazing lodge. Our vibrant staff run all sorts of unforgettable events and themed nights as well and there is a wide consensus among our volunteers and alumni that at 70p/beer our bar makes for the best nightlife in Africa or the some say the world!

Masters Programme

On a more serious note; Volunteer Uganda is now running a Masters program facilitating research in Uganda. Teach First participants who would like to do their masters research in an inspiring and exciting context where only a limited amount of research has been conducted to date. As well as all the accommodation, and general support VU can now provides Masters students with access to primary, secondary and tertiary institutions as well as staff, LEAs and local government. Our staff team includes experienced teachers and we have the local know-how to support you in collection of both qualitative and quantitative primary research. We are also keen to help you in your making your writing of a high enough standard to go to press, giving you an accolade and continuing to raise our fundraising clout and inform our work. We believe it is a highly rewarding and worthwhile way to complete your Masters research!

Accommodation: The VU Lodge

Volunteer Uganda has a purpose-built lodge which can accommodate up to 50 volunteers at a time. The lodge overlooks Uganda’s national treasure “Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park” which is home to an estimated 300 of the worlds 600 remaining wild mountain gorillas. Set up in a hostel style, the lodge has running water from an excavated spring on site as well as western showers and toilets. All food is prepared on site by our full-time staff and volunteers eat communally in the main building, which has space to accommodate 50 people. The lodge has a bar, pool table, camp-fire and barbecue and makes for a fantastic social environment. The lodge is slightly away from the town but no further than 10 minutes from the schools and the college. Although never called upon, the lodge has security and is enclosed. We also have safe facilities at the lodge for storing valuables. Volunteers stay in dormitories on site, which are split by gender.

Vision of the LRTT Internship

We have planned to ensure that the Intern Programme has maximum possible positive impact in the area. This bespoke programme will allow TF volunteers to widen their experience base and gain valuable experience not only teaching in a new context but sharing expertise with local teachers. By running a training week delivered free of charge to teachers from all surrounding schools, TFs are able to go above and beyond their daily roles as classroom teachers and become leaders of tangible, lasting improvement in the education of thousands of schoolchildren across Kanungu. You signed up to become a leader in “all fields” come and be a catalyst for change in the lives of the people who need it most. See you in Uganda!