Volunteering:

Dear friends! It gives us much joy to invite you to consider coming to spend a few weeks or even months, of your life volunteering your time towards improving the lives of a Ugandan family or a child. As a young organization, we are flexible and work to adjust your experience to be the best possible. You have options of jumping into one of our current projects or designing your own. 

Volunteering Opportunities 
OCT urgently needs volunteers in the following positions;

• Teachers
• Child care workers
• Counselors
• Social workers
• Doctors, nurse and pharmacists
• Sports, music and drummer
• Painters

Why volunteer for OCT?
As a volunteer you will;

• Impact on children’s life
• Provide encouragement and support to those who need it most.
• Play a vital role in the growing of our organization.
• Share your life skills and experiences with the children and other volunteers
• Make friends with children and volunteers from around the world
• Live in and experience foreign culture
• Improve on your local language skills

Basic benefits of volunteering with OCT

• Unlike most international volunteer programs, your only expenses are your flight to and from your country, meals and transport expenses within all the OCT projects.
• Volunteers are provided with a free accommodation room at New Moon Children’s House.
• Free time to explore your host country, Visit beautiful places like the source of the Nile Bajagali falls, Lake Victoria, kitagata hot spring, National parks and also to part take in activities like bungee jumping, swimming, horseback riding and whitewater rafting or kayaking.

How to apply?
Please contact us at martinwalwas@gmail.com for more information.

Help Us We know that it’s a task we could never accomplish without the helping hand of friends like you. We indeed pray that you will be encouraged to partner with us to give these children the future they deserve.
These are the areas with the greatest needs in the short run -

Widows Economic Empowerment Projects
It is women who assume much of the responsibility for orphaned children ultimately. The income generation capacity of these households is profoundly constrained by numerous dependent children, lack of opportunity to accumulate productive resources like cattle, goats and faming implements. They are further constrained by limited education and training which limits employability. To encounter this OCT plans;

1. To start a goat’s cooperative to benefit 80 needy families at the cost of $1200
Widow groups of 20 members each will be formed. Training on how to care for the goats will be offered to them whereby after successful completion participates will receive a dairy goat. From the first 20 female goats, the first kid produced from each comes back to OCT. We then gift it to another woman, who forms a new group with other women. The rest of the kids will remain the property of the women’s from the first group. This will be a long term asset inform of food at the same time a source of income for the women and their families.

2. We plan to start a chicken cooperative to benefit over 40 families at a cost of $ 1800
We will work with widows and guardians of orphans to create chicken cooperatives in order to teach them business skills so as to increase their income. Once the woman become financially literate, it will allow them to remain business owners so that their children can receive the education they deserve and families obtain sufficient access to food and nutrition. Two chicken cooperatives will be formed and each group will rear an average of 300 chickens.

3. We also plan to supply farming supplies to benefit over 60 needy families at a cost of $1400. This will help these women to grow apple food for their families and possibly income.

Child Care and Education:
Give your generous gift of
$15 to provide a girl’s package for a year (12 parks of sanitary pads, 4 pairs of underwear and soap)
$25 to provide a sleeping packet for a child (Form mattress, blanket and mosquito net) 
$100 to provide an education packet for a primary and nursery child, Including a full uniform, school fees, lunch and school supplies like books, pens, geometrical sets, school bag and shoes
$250 to provide tuition for a secondary school child, including tutoring, lunch and exam fee
$1500 for promotion of AIDS awareness campaigns for a period of one year.
$1600 for buying one motor cycle to be used as a mean of transport in the monitoring process
$2600 for proper record keeping including (a computer, record files, word ropes, photocopying machine, stationery and a printer) 

Appeal
1. We need to buy a van for transportation.
2. Undesignated funds are needed for emergencies,-Staff salary, deficits, sickness, transportation and unexpected deaths (which is common in Africa). Many times OCT staff doesn’t have extra funds to be helpful in very difficult situations! Any contribution to this fund will be highly appreciated.

Please donate to us by NET BANKING at: 
Organisation for Community Transformation Uganda.
Account No: 61636660006.
Swift Code: AFRIUGKA
Bank of Africa Uganda Ltd, Jinja Branch

Thanks for your interest in donating to OCT.