St. Joseph’s Hospital Wakiso Ltd is a private health service provider registered by the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council located on Kirumira Road, Wakiso town council about 15 minutes’ walk from the trading centre after Wakiso HC IV.
· Working with the health Team
· Helping on-medical personnel basing on skills possessed by volunteer
· Engage in patient home visits
· Provide hand in immunization
· Ensuring patient care is maintained
· Early childhood growth & development lessons
· Represent hospital in seminars and trainings
· HIV counseling and testing
· HIV sensitization and awareness in schools
· Participate and coordinate village Outreaches
· Registration and assessment of new beneficiaries
· Follow up on activities
- Administrative/office work
· Being Emotionally Strong
· Strong Integrity And Honesty
· High Accuracy In Calculation
· Quick And Perceptive
· Take Quick Decisions ability To Work As a team
· Motivated
· Open Minded
- Volunteers With Medical Background And Administrative Skills
The volunteer has the possibility to choose between staying in the guesthouse, with different international volunteers (sharing room, normally 2-4 people) or to stay in a host family. Accommodation is at the UPA Guesthouse, average but not luxury.
Volunteers prepare their own food. UPA provides gas cooker, a fridge, and utensils.
Alternatively, a volunteer can stay with a host family to be more exposed to the Ugandan culture.
Volunteers are required to come with their own pocket money.
The volunteers must apply for a tourist visa online with this link. https://www.visas.immigration.go.ug/ . This should be done a couple of weeks or months before the departure date. Please refer to infosheet.
The volunteer is required to come with his/her insurance.
Participants are required to pay a participation fee of Euro 500 (five hundred Euros) on arrival for a period of 1- 3months and 80 Euros (eighty Euros) in advance for each additional month/s.
The fee covers pickup from the airport or bus station upon arrival in Uganda, orientation, guesthouse maintenance, and administration costs of UPA
Interested volunteers are requested to contact our partners in their respective countries so as to be guided on the application process.
Clothes, both casual and formal. Especially for your work you should dress more formal or events where you are invited to.
· A light sleeping bag and flashlight.
· Working shoes (trekking/sports shoes) in case of physical work
· A personal first aid kit (bandage, disinfectant, diarrhoea tablets, etc) and any medication you may require (allergies, asthma, diabetes, etc.), however almost all medicines can be purchased in Uganda.
· If you bring electrical equipment then remember to bring a British adapter. Otherwise you can buy one in Uganda for about 3,000 to 5000 UGX.
· Sun glasses, sun cream/lotion
NOTE: Shorts, dresses and skirts should reach knee length for cultural consideration. Smoking in public is illegal while engagement in drug/harsh carries a life prison sentence.
And don’t forget to bring your energy, smile, and sense of humour along too!
- Find a project that interests you in our Open Projects
- Find your local organisation in your country of residence using our branch locator
- Get in touch with them with details about the project(s) you want to apply to. They will become your sending organisation.
- Any issues? Contact us!
