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COMMUNITY EMPOWERNMENT FOR VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT
UGANDA (CEFOVID UG) www.cefovid.org
PROJECT CODE: UPA/MLTV/15
Background Community Empowerment For Village Development Uganda (CEFOVID-UG) is a

registered local Community Based charity, established in 2012, registration No-
LUB/12/212.Its located in the urban surbubs of Lubya parish slums ,5km from the

capital city of Kampala Uganda. CEFOVID was founded to help support the
marginalized slum orphans and vulnerable children due to lack any charity to help
them out. We currently support 65 kids at our charity school- GOOD MUMMY
SCHOOL KOSOVO and other partner schools directly; well-as 130 kids is the total
registered number of beneficiaries for CEFOVID.

Aim

Mission

Our main aim is to contribute to increased access to comprehensive social and
economic services, home based care and support to orphans and vulnerable children
in Lubya Parish slums Kosovo.
Our mission is to challenge and respond to the causes and consequences of
vulnerability, poverty, lack of awareness and skills so that they live a self-sustaining
life with dignity.

Activities  Support to Orphan and Vulnerable Children with quality education
 Sexual reproductive health and HIV&AIDS youth counseling
 Life skills training to vulnerable women and youths:- Crafts, urban farming,
liquid soap production and tailoring
 Early childhood learning at Kosovo slum
 Providing recreation activities to children and youth such as games and sports,
drama etc
 Food nutritional counseling and sensitization support, Community and home
monitoring visits
 Strategic networking and linkage(referral)
 Organizing Community Health camps
 Organizing Hygiene and sanitation camps
 Hand washing project.

Volunteer
Qualities

 Passion to work with children and slum communities
 Open minded and emotionally strong with ability to appreciate local setting
 Volunteer should be interested not necessarily qualified
 Innovativeness, knowledge of social work and administration and Computer
skills is an added advantage

Volunteer tasks Activities range from community outreach, administrative work to Kindergarten
activities. Volunteers should prepare to assist with one or more of the following:
CEFOVID Uganda
 Preparing quarterly organization newsletters and activity reports
 To engage in the different innovative avenues of fundraising for social and

Uganda Pioneers’ Association

TOGETHER WE SHAPE THE FUTURE
economic support for the charity school and vulnerable families
 Follow up and coordination of different project activities /events especially
education for life.
 Continuous and timely update of our online medias e.g. website and face
book
 Coordinating Community work like sanitation and hygiene in Kosovo slum
 To support with administrative work at the offices
 To support our Kindergarten (age 3-9 years)with teaching, art and
games(Good mummy Kindergarten)
 Youths counseling in sexual reproductive health
 Computer training
 Conducting Hand washing trainings in communities

Working Hours 9:00 am to 16:30 pm, Monday to Friday and upon special request on weekends
Transport It is 6kms from UPA to CEFOVID Uganda offices, costing 10,000 to and from when
using public means (matatu-Taxi).It can cost approximately 15,000/= to and from with
a hired motorcycle.

Accommodation Volunteers can stay at UPA Guest house or in a host family in the local community
Comments from
UPA

CEFOVID is one of the inspiring projects that work for marginalized slum orphans and
vulnerable children around the slums of Kampala. The volunteer/s interested in this
project should have passion for such disadvantaged children and must be flexible
since it is a special group for children with various backgrounds.

Communication The basis of communication at CEFOVID Uganda and Charity school is English though
majority of the Vulnerable Families and communities we operate in speak little
English and more local languages.

Past Volunteers USA, German, England.

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.