End Greenhouse Gasses and Hunger in Kasese, Uganda
- Uganda
About Program
“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.” GERA has designed the best volunteer program to help you feel confident and experience a worthwhile volunteering experience. We do not need past volunteering experience, all we need is your volunteering heart, affection and passion for volunteering. GERA, will help you realize your inner self when it comes to volunteering. Even if you decided to volunteer to pass time, we help you discover your volunteering skillset and improve it and make you the best admirable volunteer. Our program will usually run for a maximum of 2-3 weeks and you will spend all this time saving our Planet from greenhouse gases and hunger. Your safety, welfare, health and meals are our top priority. GERA's hospitality is described as home away from home. We will give you chance to explore our rich wildlife at the end of your program.
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Program Highlights
- We accept applications throughout the whole year
- Total community immersion
- Language Exchange
- 5 meals a day, free wifi
Program Impact
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy
Here are some impacts that volunteers individually can make against climate change during their stay at GERA;
○ Arouse awareness among locals on climate change.
○ Make research on climate change and provide pragmatic solution to eradicate it.
○ Assist local policy makers in our community to draft policies against climate change.
○ Join hands with organization working against climate change by immersing in our activities
○ Organize locals with the help of GERA staff to put pressure on government to implement climate change reduction initiatives.
○ Help the victim of climate change problems I.e flood and landslide victims, the hungry etc.
○ Advocate on implementation of rules and regulation on climate change.
○ Teach people about sanitation, plantation, clean water, reduction of household emission of co2 and methane, hazards of pollution etc.
○ Listen to the problem people are facing from climate change and bring it in front of policy makers, environmentalist, politicians, organization and other related stakeholders.
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Location
Uganda's travel activities are centered around their natural beauty in the forms of wildlife and landscape. The most popular things to do here are safaris for the elusive Mountain Gorillas, visits to the source of the Nile, site-seeing at the Murchison Falls, and outdoor activities at Lake Bunyonyi.
