Volunteer Opportunities

 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 

We are a learning organization.  The success of work depends on collaboration with others. Joint efforts yield better results and impact in the lives of people we work with!  Come and offer us your expertise, have fun and experience new partnership and collaboration with us. Your effort will not go unnoticed!

Who are our volunteers: National and international college and university students, graduate and professional.

Why volunteer with Carissa?                            

Your involvement, commitment, motivation and work will help Carissa reach out to many discriminated and marginalized young people and those who are living in extreme poverty, so they gain self-esteem and become useful again in their communities. By volunteering at Carissa, you contribute to influencing organizational work that will have measurable impact on the beneficiaries and organization. By the end of your volunteer period, you will have learnt and contributed to improving lives of marginalized youth and people with disabilities in northern Uganda.

 Volunteering with Carissa will help you:

  • Widen your knowledge and experience from communities who suffered from long lasting civil insurgency in northern Uganda.
  • Develop new relationship with Carissa team and friends
  • Achieve your personal goal in helping discriminated war orphans, youth and people with disabilities.
  • Spend your leisure constructively.
  • Learn new skills and widen your collaboration.
  • Have creative fun with us that help build your self-confidence.

 

Areas of volunteering

Programs

This involves: Selecting participants, training  beneficiaries in niche products or training aspiring entrepreneurs in social enterprise development and leadership,  mentorship  to  targeted participants in communities, fund raising, , monitoring and evaluation and documentation.

Administration 

This includes: human resource management, finance and accounts, information management including filing system, database and software development and maintenance.

Duration of volunteering

We offer a period of 3 to 12 months stay for our volunteers with possible renewal if need arises.

Recognition

At the end of a successful completion of volunteering period, we award a certificate of recognition.

How to join

Thank you for your interest to volunteer with us. Please write to us about your interest to volunteer with us at director@carissainternational.org

Terms and conditions for volunteers

  1. Meal is provided during working hours for volunteers
  2. Transport for official work is provided during working hours.
  3. Facilities necessary for volunteers to execute tasks will be provided.
  4. No accommodation; However, we help our volunteers to locate a better and affordable accommodation with better security within Gulu City.
  5. We offer certificate of appreciation to our volunteers after successful completion
  6. Volunteer duration ranges from 3- 12 months.
  7. There is no salary to volunteers. However, depending on the availability of fund, field facilitation can be provided.
  8. Volunteers are only accepted upon sending expression of interest to volunteers. Expression of Interest can be accepted or rejected depending on the prevailing demand at the organization.
  9. Working hours for volunteers is from 8:30Am -5:00Pm (Monday- Friday). Depending on emergency, Volunteers can be requested to working during half day on Saturday.