Uganda Village Project

Volunteering with UVP

We are now accepting applications for the 2005 summer season! We are also accepting long term applications for serious applicants who want to really help us get our project in full swing by staying for 6 months or a year in Iganga! Please scroll down for long term applicant information.

Summer/6 week volunteers!

This trip will run from June 2 - July 15. Please do not apply unless you can attend for the ENTIRE period of time, unless you are a professional and not a student. Please apply to be part of a 25-person multidisciplinary team including, but not limited to:

Medical Doctors Medical students

Nurse Practitioners Dental students

Dentists Pharmacy students

Registered Nurses Nursing students

Physical Therapists Anthropology students

Pharmacists Nutrition students

Dieticians Agriculture students

Engineering students Poverty/Development students

Agriculturalists Epidemiology students

Anthropologists

In order to be maximally effective, volunteers will be splitting up into 4 "satellite projects,” each based in one village and allied with one Ugandan Non-Governmental Organization. Villages hosting volunteers are all located in the Iganga District in southeastern Uganda. Every satellite project will be conducting similar health and education projects, as well as unique initiatives based on the interests, talents, and specific conditions of each site.

Volunteers will be staying in houses rented from local Non-Governmental Organizations, some of which have electricity and running water. Volunteer houses are located in the hub of rural centers, so that volunteers have the opportunity to live among rural Ugandans and establish close links with their community of service.

Download the application

(Word format)

Please include this waiver

Feel free to type directly into this file and print it. Try to stay under 2 pages of typed text with your responses to the questions.

We require that all our volunteers become certified as community AIDS educators by their local Red Cross or other organizations. We will try to help facilitate this training after acceptance to the project.

Please send completed applications to:

Uganda Village Project

c/o Dana Schonberg

59 Custer Street, Buffalo, NY 14214

Application Deadline: The deadline for 2005 submissions is currently Jan. 31st, 2005.

Contact ugandaproject@yahoo.com for more information.

Long term/6 month-1 year volunteers!

We are now accepting applications for 2 long-term volunteers to continue UVP projects for either 6-months or 12-months during these periods:

June 2, 2005-December 2, 2005 (6 months)

Nov 25, 2005-June 9, 2006 (6.5 months)

June 2, 2005-June 9, 2006 (12 months)

APPLICATIONS: Please apply as soon as possible using the following application.