Improving the Lives of Disadvantaged People
Highlights
- Empowering Uganda's Disadvantaged: The KACCAD Volunteer Program is dedicated to uplifting the lives of marginalized individuals in Uganda.
- Diverse Volunteer Engagement: We engage volunteers with diverse expertise to address unique community needs effectively.
- Inclusive and Flexible: Our program welcomes volunteers of varied skills, backgrounds, and cultures, offering flexible pricing packages.
- Active Community Involvement: We encourage volunteers to actively participate in project activities, harnessing local resources for maximum impact.
- Experiential Learning: Volunteers gain exposure to diverse socio-cultural and economic environments, learning valuable insights from the local communities they serve.
Overview
The KACCAD Volunteer Program is dedicated to enhancing the lives of disadvantaged individuals in Uganda. We achieve this by engaging volunteers with diverse expertise to undertake specific roles in addressing the unique needs of these communities.
Our program is highly adaptable, accommodating volunteers with various skills, backgrounds, and cultural diversity. We offer flexible pricing packages and actively encourage volunteers to participate in our organization's project activities while making the most of local resources. Through this program, volunteers gain exposure to a wide range of socio-cultural and economic environments within Uganda, offering valuable learning experiences from the local communities they serve during their volunteer work.
Important Information
We implement the following program activities and Volunteers can participate in any of them that suits their purpose of volunteering:
1. Education sponsorship of disadvantaged children
2. Solar lamps distribution to energy-poor communities
3. Solar electrification of off-grid public health clinics
4. Promoting Safe Birth plus Healthy Homes through the donation of a solar lamp to each mother who gives birth at a health clinic project site
5. Constructing protected spring wells
6. Distributing Food relief items to needy households
7. Skilling disadvantaged people in various vocational skills for economic empowerment
8. Solar lamps distribution to school children belonging to off-grid households
We have a self-contained Volunteer Building where we provide accommodation to our Volunteers as part of the package offered at a fee.
We also have a highly comfortable vehicle in which we transport our volunteers at a fee, to different destinations in Uganda as their schedules may necessitate.
Note:
Volunteering by Sarah Baird, which resulted in the inception of and implementation of Let There Be Light International's Solar Program in partnership with KACCAD as the major local partner.
Volunteering by Chris Tabacin, which resulted in the inception and implementation of the Sew Much Hope project for Persons with Disabilities, which imparts vocational skills to PWDs for them to apply in generating income., and the treatment of children with disabilities.
Volunteering by Professor Emeritus Bridget Baird, which resulted in the inception and implementation of the KACCAD Family Planning Project in partnership with various health clinics in Uganda.