Jesus and Me Children’s Ministries

VOLUNTEER WORK WITH JMCM

JMCM offers volunteer opportunities for individuals, families, groups, and teams from schools, organization, churches, and companies, to come to Uganda and volunteer in orphanages and children’s home and youth projects in Uganda.

We have been spending a lot on transport especially for day to day movement. We praise and thank the Lord Jesus so much for providing us a Yamaha motor cycle through this wonderful woman of God, Joan. The motor cycle will be more economical and will simplify our volunteer services.

Volunteer placements can be short –term (2weeks-4months) or long-term (5-12months), but can be longer depending on the volunteer’s time frame,  and are organized throughout the year. Placements are in orphanages in Kampala city, Wakiso, and Luwero and projects including working in orphanages and children’s homes, schools, local hospitals and community out reaches.

During this period, volunteers help with caring for the children at the orphanages, teaching ICT skills at orphan schools, building projects, organizing out-of-school kids programs, holding community outreach in the form of medical clinics or clubs and conducting counseling sessions for HIV/AIDS women and children, organized fourth sports programs and community outreaches.

Requirements.

Why volunteer?

We always need more volunteers to help in orphanages and youth community projects in Uganda. Not only it is a great chance to give something back, but it is an opportunity to learn more about the country and culture and how people live in Uganda and the challenges orphaned children go through.  It is also an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the children.   Identifying with the community is a blessing from the Lord.

It is a welcoming atmosphere over here with lots of people of all ages offering their time and skills for God’s kingdom. You don’t need experience or special skills. You need only God’s love reflected in your heart with passion to help, a good attitude and energy and strength from the Lord-Jesus.

Volunteer Roles:

JMCM  welcomes volunteers with or no skills. We are looking for people gifted with ability to just love and work with the children.

Team Coordinators:

We need those who will coordinate teams in their countries. Their role involves mobilizing and recruiting potential volunteers, following up and making confirmations with potential volunteers, airlines, making travel timetable, etc acting as the coordinator for the team.

Working in Orphanages:

Volunteers will help with providing care for the children, playing with and teaching children, organizing sporting activities, music dance and drama programs, feeding the children in the orphanage, etc, working alongside our local staff.

Medical Outreaches:

In addition to providing routine medical checkups and treatment for the children at JMCM, volunteers will conduct community health outreaches in needy communities where we work and conduct counseling session with HIV/AIDS positive women and children and other Aids victims.

Community medical outreaches involve providing free medical treatment of poor sick people from within the community who may be suffering from various illness such as malaria, flu, cough, stomach problems, wounds etc but are poor to afford or pay for medical care. The main beneficiaries of these projects are orphaned children, widows and infected/affected with HIV/AIDS.

Teaching ICT Skills:

We are intending to start with ICT skills training covering hardware and software installation and trouble shooting;

Working with windows XP and vista, skills in Microsoft office;

Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, DTP with publisher, e-mail configuration with outlook, LAN Network configuration and trouble shooting, computer repair and maintenance skills, etc.

Building Projects:

Building projects are usually done with teams or with the help of local people, when funding for a building project has been provided for. This may involve building a new house on JMCM premises, a facility for medical centre, a new orphanage or renovating an existing building which can mean painting, plastering, replacing damaged windows, doors or roofs or iron sheets, etc.

Other Areas:

There are lots of other invaluable skills and interests for volunteers which include: film, movie making, documentary, monitoring and oral education, environmental, health worker, photography, journalist, animation, music recording and so many others.

For more information, please contact us by e-mail, phone, or P.O.Box