Uganda Volunteer Project

Congratulations on being accepted on the Uganda Volunteer Project, please make it official by booking your space now.

If you have not been accepted on the project yet, please fill in our application form first.

It’s all about experiencing a new culture whilst giving children their childhoods through play. Weekdays volunteering at a school building a playground and weekends exploring the amazing activities on offer in Uganda. What's not to love!

Thank you for choosing to sign up to the Uganda Volunteer Project. Please fill in all the details below and pay the £100 registration fee so we can get you started with the best experience ever, volunteering with East African Playgrounds!

Please note we have 4 different dates of projects you can choose from:

9th June – 5th July 2018
14th July – 9th August 2018
11th August – 25th August 2018
18th August – 13th September 2018

By booking your space on the Uganda Volunteer Project you are agreeing to the following Terms and Conditions.

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Jinja, Uganda Uganda Uganda

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When

Start: 9^th June, 2018 at 9:00am

End: 13^th September, 2018 at 11:00pm

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What is the volunteer project about?

It’s all about experiencing a new culture whilst giving children their childhoods through play. Weekdays volunteering at a school building a playground and weekends exploring the amazing activities on offer in Uganda. What's not to love!
Northampton - Uganda Volunteer Project

Support one of our volunteers who is raising money to come to Uganda this summer and help us to build a playground. The money raised from the volunteer project goes directly to East African Playgrounds to help build more playgrounds and run our educational play programmes. The money raised through this project is not spent on the volunteers.
RAG to Riches

East African Playgrounds are offering you the chance to take on a new kind of challenge. We’ll give you £100, and set you the task of turning it into £1,000. This can ramp up your RAG week, spruce up your smaller event or even be a challenge that you offer to your society as a whole – allowing the entrepreneurs at your university to make their mark whilst also making a huge difference to the lives of those less fortunate.
London Street Collection

Join us for our biggest fundraiser of the year. It's not only an incredibly fundraising opportunity, where we're hoping to raise enough to build a large playground in one weekend, but also an awesome chance to meet students from all over the country engaged with the same cause as you!
Uganda Marathon

The Uganda Marathon is an opportunity to experience the culture, landscape and hospitality of the beautiful Uganda. A chance to be the positive change you want to see in the world. A challenge to push your body to its limits. Apply now, not to miss out on your place.
The Gorilla Trek

The Gorilla Trek is the ultimate African adventure allowing you to explore, discover and develop the incredible country of Uganda. As an ethical, affordable trip, it’s what you need to have the summer of a lifetime. Apply now! Don't miss out on your place
What makes our volunteering unique?

At East African Playgrounds, we take a huge amount of pride in our volunteering projects; the level of support, transparency and the ethical standards that we maintain are all of utmost importance to us.
How to apply

To ensure the best experience for our communities and volunteers, we can only select a limited number of volunteers to come to Uganda. When applying to the Uganda Volunteer Project, remember we are not judging you on travel or volunteering experience we are looking for passionate and committed volunteers who will make the most of the experience.
Costs and fundraising

This incredible volunteering experience is just a fraction of the cost of most. Just because it is low cost does not mean it is low quality. We are able to provide our volunteering project at a reasonable price because we don't know have large overheads or work with third party providers who need to make profit. We aim to be transparent and accountable with where the money we receive goes.
FAQs - the Volunteer Project

No question is ever too big or too small to answer. And the questions you are thinking off, we're sure many other are too. Have a look here to see if your question is answered but if not then do feel free to get in touch.

Who we are
Costs and fundraising

This incredible volunteering experience is just a fraction of the cost of most. Just because it is low cost does not mean it is low quality. We are able to provide our volunteering project at a reasonable price because we don't know have large overheads or work with third party providers who need to make profit. We aim to be transparent and accountable with where the money we receive goes.
The Gorilla Trek

The Gorilla Trek is the ultimate African adventure allowing you to explore, discover and develop the incredible country of Uganda. As an ethical, affordable trip, it’s what you need to have the summer of a lifetime. Apply now! Don't miss out on your place
Costs and fundraising

Find out the costs and the fundraising targets for The Gorilla Trek. You will also find out a clear breakdown of the cost so you can know where every penny you raise or pay goes to.
Employability

East African Playgrounds is providing young Ugandans with an alternative to unemployment– an apprenticeship scheme through our playground building programmes. Former street children and other disadvantaged young people, identified through our partner organisation SALVE International work in a paid capacity with East African Playgrounds for up to twelve months.
Why play?

Play is the universal language of a child. Play is incredibly important for children’s learning, wellbeing and for healthy brain development – the UN includes the right to play in its Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most complete statement of children’s rights ever produced.
Our story

East African Playgrounds was founded by two university students in 2009, with the aim of providing playgrounds to the children of East Africa. This is the story of how a little idea turned into a big impact!
Work with us

East African Playgrounds has an office in Leicester, UK and an office and two workshops in Jinja, Uganda. As an employer, it is paramount that we provide a caring, fun and productive working environment where everyone can succeed. If we have any job vacancies they will be posted on this page.
How to apply

To ensure the best experience for our communities and volunteers, we can only select a limited number of volunteers to come to Uganda. When applying to the Uganda Volunteer Project, remember we are not judging you on travel or volunteering experience we are looking for passionate and committed volunteers who will make the most of the experience.
Life in Uganda

Uganda is a beautiful, green country with the mighty River Nile running through the middle and with a warm, welcoming culture that many fall in love with from the moment they arrive. Uganda has repeatedly been nominated as one of the top 10 countries to travel to and most beautiful countries in the world over that last few years. The reason for its popularity is not just its breath-taking landscape, incredible wildlife and friendly people. But due to how safe, and traveller friendly Uganda is.

Congratulations on being accepted on the Uganda Volunteer Project, please make it official by booking your space now.

If you have not been accepted on the project yet, please fill in our application form first.

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Uganda Volunteer Project