Africa Sustainable Tourism Care Foundation
Focus: Community and Construction.
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Project Description
Volunteers interested in getting their hands dirty and see their efforts transforming communities for the better; ASTCF construction project is a great ideal. Although Uganda is endowed with abundance of natural resources, it remains a least developed country, with the lowest indicators of socio-economic development, due to extensive political and social corruption, and extreme poverty. The most affected population is the majority Ugandans who live in rural areas with poor infrastructures. Often roads, schools and health centres are extremely poor, with no clean water and poor sanitation.
There’s urgent need of volunteers to boost the basic facilities and infrastructure for the people in poverty stricken communities. Projects vary from constructing and repairing houses, schools, care and health centres, toilets, and clean water sources for deprived local people; to learning traditional building techniques as well as initiating new appropriate and environmental friendly building skills. ASTCF’s construction projects offer participants with both valuable life-changing experience and an opportunity make a difference.
Volunteers in this field work in manual labour jobs alongside skilled and unskilled local builders to help with the construction work. The buildings are made using traditional methods and locally sourced materials. The construction techniques are also simple to master and are ideal for sites with limited facilities. No electricity is required at the site– everything is done by hand! Participants’ task can include digging foundations, mixing cement, building walls, and constructing a roof either with grass or iron sheets/tiles, plastering, painting and white-washing, landscaping, digging of trenches, refurbishing sports fields, brick laying, and construction of local huts.
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Project Summary
Volunteers in this field work in manual labour jobs alongside skilled and unskilled local builders to help with the construction work. The buildings are made using traditional methods and locally sourced materials. The construction techniques are also simple to master and are ideal for sites with limited facilities. No electricity is required at the site– everything is done by hand! Participants’ task can include digging foundations, mixing cement, building walls, and constructing a roof either with grass or iron sheets/tiles, plastering, painting and white-washing, landscaping, digging of trenches, refurbishing sports fields, brick laying, and construction of local huts.
Volunteers pay a weekly fee program fee of US$105 to cover for their accommodation and food - 3 meals per day. However, volunteers must provide for their own transportation to the project site.
Volunteers aged 18 years old and over.
Africa Sustainable Tourism Care Foundation
P.O. Box 29523, Kampala
Tel: +256794279045
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.africasustainabletourism.org
Location:Kampala, Uganda
Average cost per day:$15
Focus: Community and Construction
Skills needed: Volunteers must be at least 18 years old
