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The document describes accommodation and activities for international volunteers in Uganda. Volunteers will stay at a guest house near the ministry office or in more basic accommodation in rural areas. Volunteers will teach computer skills, crafts, sports and Christianity to children in schools and youth. They will spend weekdays working with children in schools and weekends doing outreach.

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Accommodation and Typical Day

The document describes accommodation and activities for international volunteers in Uganda. Volunteers will stay at a guest house near the ministry office or in more basic accommodation in rural areas. Volunteers will teach computer skills, crafts, sports and Christianity to children in schools and youth. They will spend weekdays working with children in schools and weekends doing outreach.

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Accommodation- Kampala

All international volunteers will stay at the ministry guest house. The guest house is 10 minutes
from the ministry office house. The guest house is westernized; it has a 24 hour security guide,
electricity, back-up generator, running water, hot water, WIFI. The atmosphere is community
oriented. You will live with other international volunteers and a few of the Legacy Footfalls staff
members. Giving you a chance to get to know the team very well.

Accommodation –Village
We work in 2 other rural districts, Yumbe and Mityana, the accommodation in the rural areas
may range from a simple guest house, or camping in tents. Be prepared to have no electricity
and shower with a bucket of water and use a squatty potty (Hole-in-the-ground).

Ministry opportunities
You will have the opportunity each week to work alongside Ugandans in schools. Teach children
the foundations of the Christian faith, basic computer skills, guide children working on crafts,
and sports ministry. You will also share your faith and interact with youth during youth open
days at the mission house. You will also spend time visiting families in the community. You will
meet 27 groups of children a week and work with about 470-500 children.

What we do
Legacy Footfalls is committed to outreach toward pockets of unreached communities within
Uganda. We do this with a two-pronged approach: one, training in computer literacy in
community schools; and two, evangelism built upon the relationships formed as a result of the
training. We run bible lesson plans on the foundations of the Christian faith parallel to a
computer literacy curriculum.

Generally we offer education and exposure to computers as a vehicle establishing relationships


that will open hearts to hearing the gospel.

We use a number of approaches to interest the children with the bible lessons and crafts. Such
as team bonding games, music and dance. Children here just love to sing and dance. Their faces
brighten up at the sound of a guitar and gospel tracks. Even children coming from non-christian
families freely dance to rock gospel music. The computer lesson is spiced up by computer based
games.

The busiest and most demanding days in the week are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On
Thursday and Friday we work from the mission house, Thursday we specifically work on the
discipleship booklets for children, the discipleship booklet is a tool LF uses to monitor the
progress of each child on program. it covers concepts relating to the discipleship syllabus that
the children are taking and stores the crafts student make. You will stick crafts and write
observations in the morning and afternoon. On a normal day we stick about 400+ crafts and
write observations and prayer profiles on as many children as possible. Thursday evening the
volunteers go back to one of the schools to engage the children in outdoor sports activities. Do
family visits. Friday starts with a planning and evaluation meeting, general cleanup of ICT
equipment. The volunteer then engage village youth in a youth open day event. The event
happens at the mission house. It is full of funny team bonding games, a light snack and
sometimes a movie.
A Typical Day

6:30am
The day starts with a prayer session for about 30 minutes, we wash-up, take breakfast and by
8:30am we meet up with the coordinators and other Ugandan volunteers at the mission house.
With everything prepared for the day’s events, we discuss schedules, talk about the big picture
and review goals and objectives.

9am
Volunteers depart and set up 3 work stations on arrival to the school. The computer room, a
crafts room and bible story class. The bible story class is usually organized under a cool mango
tree. Most of the schools here have beautiful compounds with many full grown mango trees.
We usually handle 3 classes, G4, G5 and G6. Each class is handled separately. A single class is
divided into 3 equal numbers of pupils, one group goes for the computer lesson, the second
group goes for crafts, and the third group goes for the bible story class. Each of these lessons
lasts for 25 minutes. The groups rotate so that all children can go to all the stations. The first
class begins at 9:40 and continues for the next 80 minutes.

10:30am
Children go on break, the volunteers use this time to interact with the children or take a short
break too.

11.00am
Volunteers have break tea and a snack. After they rest and get ready for class 2.

11:40am
The second class comes in. volunteer groups rotate so that all volunteers have the opportunity
to serve in a new activity that day. The second class also lasts for 80 minutes.

1pm
Children go on a lunch break; the volunteers use this time to interact with the children

2pm
Volunteer have lunch, and take a break to Journal (personal), blog, or rest.

3:40 pm
The third class comes in. volunteer groups rotate again. The class also lasts for 80 minutes.

5:00pm
Volunteers Pack up the computer equipment and return to the guest house.

6:00pm
Dinner and also share the highs and lows of the day, process what we have seen and done and
exchange.

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