https://roundtripvolunteering.com Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:04 +0000 https://roundtripvolunteering.com en https://roundtripvolunteering.com/home-page Mon, 28 May 2018 14:58:57 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/home-page - Would you like to write a different story? A story based on what you have experienced?  - Yeah, but, right now I don’t really have the time.  - Until you have the time, fancy a virtual experience?  - Sure, where are you taking me?  - We’ll GO VOLUNTEERING…  https://roundtripvolunteering.com/orientation Mon, 28 May 2018 14:58:57 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/orientation During this adventure, your personal guide will be Claire. She knows all about volunteering. Before being hired by a volunteering organisation for local development in Uganda, she was a volunteer for the same organisation. This project knows no borders. From Togo to Tanzania, from Belgium to Finland, from Kenya to France, you can expect quite a bit of coming and going. Food for thought and contemplation. So that you can start to imagine yourself in a volunteering project. Ready? Let’s go ︎ https://roundtripvolunteering.com/claire-entre Mon, 28 May 2018 14:58:59 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/claire-entre https://roundtripvolunteering.com/arrivee Mon, 28 May 2018 14:58:59 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/arrivee Arrival︎ After a long journey, you finally reach your destination. Sisié is here to welcome you. She manages the Volunteers’ House of the nonprofit Uganda Pioneers Association, based in Kampala, in Uganda. You are going to live in this house during the whole time of your volunteer assignment. You will share it with other international volunteers. https://roundtripvolunteering.com/arrivee-suite Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:01 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/arrivee-suite ︎ After leaving your luggage at the houseand starting to take your marks,you will follow Sam. Sam is the person in charge of UPA. He’s also the volunteers’ mentor. He is going to explain to you how to get around in the area. ︎ How about a bit of football with the neighbouring school kids? If you’re down with it, walk this way! ︎ You meet up with Claire. She introduces you to Tia. Tia is Finnish. She has volunteered here for three months. The three of you sit down in comfy garden chairs to chat about how Tia's experience peeled away her prejudices. https://roundtripvolunteering.com/arrivee-fin Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:02 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/arrivee-fin You have now found your feet and you want to carry on with the adventure. You set off for Chapter 2. Your plane has just landed in Togo. ︎ https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte-mood Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:03 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte-mood https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte-accueil Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:03 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte-accueil Discovery︎ You temporarily leave Uganda and continue your journey to West-Africa. ︎ Do you need a refresher in geography, or perhaps in geopolitics? ︎ https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:04 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte In Togo you meet Regine. She shares with you her philosophy about hosting volunteers. You also get to know Alid Adom, one of the employees of Astovot in Kpalimé. He explains to you the procedure for choosing a hosting family for the volunteers. ︎ Do you have a moment to spare? Join the first moments of the meeting of the nonprofit Astovot in Lomé. ︎ ︎ Back to Uganda. They are expecting you at the Kikooba school. Hurry up, the meeting is about to start! Make yourself comfortable and watch the process of decision-making ︎ Ready for a musical break?Singing the vocals: Hoyse and Lucas ︎ https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte-uvikiuta Mon, 28 May 2018 14:59:04 +0000 Round Trip Volunteering (ENG) https://roundtripvolunteering.com/decouverte-uvikiuta Back in Tanzania, you meet Claire once again. She introduces you to Hoyse, one of the founders of UVIKIUTA. In 1991 the Tanzanian government decided to offer land to groups of engaged young people. The founders of UVIKIUTA were still teenagers at the time. They met each other in the church choir. Soon enough an idea came out. They wanted to start a vocational training project that could create employment for their members, as well as establish a collective ecovillage. “We were young” They started out with a small hut by the roadside that accommodated all the group. At the time, two members of the group left the country in order to find ideas in Germany and in Canada. Simultaneously, they both stumble upon the path of international volunteerism. Step by step over the years UVIKIUTA has become an ecovillage and a cooperative with several activities: hosting events, landscape design, environmental rehabilitation and international volunteering. Encounter