We've created better education and health services, and raised incomes for many thousands of people throughout Uganda, all thanks to our amazing volunteers. Help us achieve more.
Volunteering in Uganda
Hosea Tumwine is championing women's rights in Uganda. He has worked with other youth from my community to develop Briquettes, a smart, clean, durable, and cheap energy for cooking.
Whilst today Uganda is at peace, with a growing economy and population, decades of civil war left a legacy of poverty it is still working to overcome.
Family is central to the Ugandan culture and that goes for our staff and volunteers too – we look out for each other.
We're urgently looking for people with a range of backgrounds including health, education and business. If you think you could be part of the change we are creating, please do get in touch.
Volunteer stories from Uganda
Meet VSO’s youth innovators and climate champions
Meet Hosea Tumwine – an extraordinary young person and enthusiastic champion of women and girls’ rights in Uganda. Hosea is a member of VSO’s global youth network.
Meet the volunteer fighting famine in Uganda
The coronavirus pandemic is hitting the world’s poorest hardest, plunging people into poverty. No truer is this than in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in north-western Uganda, where VSO volunteer Daniel Adotu has been making sure the camp’s most vulnerable residents don’t go hungry.
Rebuilding hope, trust and communities in Uganda
When Sue Howes returned to Uganda 40 years after first volunteering there, she found a country still nursing the wounds left by war, extremism, disease and despotism. Compelled to do something, Sue and her husband Greg founded a project that would help communities build themselves back up.