Trust Future works in three sectors: education, health and economic empowerment.
1. Education for:
• Children. Our primary school counts 183 students, including 53 most vulnerable children or orphans. We educate children from 4 to 14 years.
• Adults who didn’t receive or complete their primary education. We offer them language courses and business mathematics three times per week.
2. Health
• In partnership with local organizations we offer free HIV test, counseling and psychological support to the local community.
• In partnership with a local dispensary, we provide our vulnerable pupils with a free access to health care and medicine.
3. Empowerment of:
• Disadvantaged women through economic activities like craft products (mats, lady’s hand bags, beads, craft shoes, envelopes and paper bags).
• Youths: we provide youths – who drop out of school or got early marriage – with professional skills (i.e. bricks and shoes making or sewing activities).
• Management: accountancy and finance of the projects prioritize NGO’s needs - Project management: planning, implementation, monitoring, defining budget and evaluation, finding new sources of sustainability.
• Research work: qualitative and quantitative research about our beneficiaries (disadvantaged women, youth and children) regarding to living conditions, health, income, nutrition, accommodation, etc.
• Field work: social work in the communities, meetings and interactions with our beneficiaries (advices and prevention), guidance and psychological support.
• Journalism: in order to create awareness among the social network, you will collect and write short interviews and positive stories of Trust Future’s members – either staff, or beneficiaries (Humans of Trust Future).
• Marketing / communication: strategic marketing and operational, promotion of the projects, creation of promotional supports (video, brochure, flyers, business card, …), promotion of volunteering (through also voluntourism) and internship, writing job description of volunteering opportunities, finding international market for Women empowerment’s craft products, etc.
• eMarketing: interactions with the web users on social networks (i.e. Facebook) and the website (update and writing)
• Public Relations: - partnership-building : with the objective of recruiting new volunteers/internships and collecting supports, you will be looking for international partnerships with High School (social workers, teachers), Secondary School, foundations, companies (Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), etc., - search of local partners (building a strong network), - fundraising programme (writing fundraising proposals and implementation)
• Teaching: in collaboration with the teaching staff, you will teach subjects such as English, Mathematics, Sciences, Geography, Physical Education, Art (drawing and painting) or any other relevant subject (i.e. foreign languages, computer skills). To provide recreational activities to children and youth such as games and Sports.
• Photography / Video: in order to create awareness about Ugandan living conditions and culture, you can capture pictures or videos of Trust Future’s environment (community) or members (staff, beneficiaries).
• IT: updating of the website.
from January to December
2 weeks
We provide accommodation in either a guest house of a host family and we also provide three meals a day.
Program Fees
What's my money used for?
Costs (Prices in USD)
2 weeks (min. stay)
$210.00
3 weeks
$279.00
4 weeks
$348.00
5 weeks
$417.00
6 weeks
$486.00
7 weeks
$555.00
12 weeks (max. stay)
$900.00
You can volunteer at the project site in Wakiso/Uganda between 2 weeks and 12 weeks. Please note that the above shown program fees are estimated and subject to exchange rate fluctuations. Trust Future Uganda will tell you your final price during your application process.
Average Fees
$90/week
Deposit (15%)
The deposit is simply to reserve your volunteer placement. Payments are handled by PayPal, our trusted global payment provider. If you don't have a PayPal account, you can also pay using a credit card.
Final Payment (85%)
Your final payment must be made up to 30 days before to the volunteer program starts. This payment is also securely handled by PayPal or credit card.
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Free-time
What can you do in leisure-time in Uganda while you are not working at your volunteer opportunity?
Everyone
the volunteers will be posting on our pages, opening up fundraising pages and do the fundraising, organization marketing among others
Trust Future Uganda (TFU) is a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) which aims to offer a brighter future to youths, orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), and disadvantaged women living in Uganda. Our mission is to empower orphans and vulnerable children, youths and marginalized women in Uganda. Trust Future Uganda was established in year 2008 as a Community Based Organization and later upgraded to full Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) in 2011 with REG.NO.S.5914/8905. As a NGO, it was established to help Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs), Youth and Marginalized women in areas of Education, Health and Economic Empowerment. It operates in Nansana Town council area and Nabweru sub county Wakiso district. The main objectives of TFU are;
1. To equip children, youth and marginalized women with vocational knowledge and skills which are needed to promote development.
2. To increase awareness on the general health, well-being and proper nutrition.
3. To nurture well behaved, socially, morally, spiritually and academically up right children who will be involved in a positive change of our societies
4. To advance HIV/AIDS prevention by raising awareness and to increase control of malaria and diarrheal diseases amongst our children, youth and Marginalized women as well as the community at large.
5. Promotion of Child Protection, Rights of Children & Youth Development and Address the Issues related to Abuse and Marginalization of Children, Youth and Women.
The three major sectors of trust future Uganda include;
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Trust Future Uganda (TFU) is a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) which aims to offer a brighter future to youths, orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), and disadvantaged women living in Uganda. Our mission is to empower orphans and vulnerable children, youths and marginalized women in Uganda. Trust Future Uganda was established in year 2008 as a Community Based Organization and later upgraded to full Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) in 2011 with REG.NO.S.5914/8905. As a NGO, it was established to help Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs), Youth and Marginalized women in areas of Education, Health and Economic Empowerment. It operates in Nansana Town council area and Nabweru sub county Wakiso district. The main objectives of TFU are;
1. To equip children, youth and marginalized women with vocational knowledge and skills which are needed to promote development.
2. To increase awareness on the general health, well-being and proper nutrition.
3. To nurture well behaved, socially, morally, spiritually and academically up right children who will be involved in a positive change of our societies
4. To advance HIV/AIDS prevention by raising awareness and to increase control of malaria and diarrheal diseases amongst our children, youth and Marginalized women as well as the community at large.
5. Promotion of Child Protection, Rights of Children & Youth Development and Address the Issues related to Abuse and Marginalization of Children, Youth and Women.
land,food,office supplies,scholastic materials,first Aid kits, sanitary pads, sewing machines, saloon equipment's, carpentry kits, computers,transport( vehicles),blankets,mattresses,clothes, shoes, functional services,games and sports accessories,toiletries,generator and others.
