Today many local leaders and local businessmen and women can read and write English and their local languages, because of CSH adult literacy project.

Community Development:

An example of Ugandan's improving their quality of life through CSH's community development is our Home Sustainable Living Program. CSH works to create self-sustainability in Uganda by harnessing the potential of individuals to develop themselves, their households, and their communities. CSH partners with groups at all levels, including local, national, and international organisations in the development process. This is no better exemplified than by John Ssentongo's Model farm on our website.

HIV/ Aids Awareness:

HIV/ Aids is still a major problem in Uganda and our volunteers have offered many classes on HIV/ Aids awareness and sensitisation, trying to combat the misconceptions that the youth of Kiwangala have about HIV/ Aids and sex education in general. Volunteer teachers are needed no matter what a volunteer's level of experience; e ven the simplest messages are very effective here. Imagine a society where children are never encouraged, never told they can achieve good things. Basic information on hygiene, nutrition, etc. is just not passed on from mother to child as in western cultures. You can help to combat this and help to empower the children to become able citizens.

Building:

Through help from our volunteers, we are currently in the process of building a house for some of the orphans that Children's Sure House provide care for. This initiative will house and provide for a better future for the orphans when coupled with our free education. This will give the children a chance to break free from the poverty cycle that so many Ugandan's are trapped in.

Flexibility as a Volunteer:

If you choose to come to the Kiwangala project, you as a volunteer are offered the flexibility to choose what you would like to do when you get to Kiwangala. When you arrive and have settled in your house, you will meet Moses the Children's Sure House founder where you will discuss what you would like to do. Whether it is teaching, building or offering help in community development.

Volunteer Expertise:

We here at Children's Sure House like to harness the volunteers expertise from their home countries and are very open to the new ideas that volunteers may have on ways that they can help. Some of the fresh ideas that volunteers have brought include teaching a business class to the pupils, providing counselling to the children and setting up computer classes to aid computer literacy amongst the school's pupils.

Teaching:

Most volunteer teachers teach English and a second subject for example History, Geography or Biology, but CSH feels that when you come to Africa that we can give you a programme for your stay, but are always happy when a volunteer writes their own, with new and helpful initiatives, as it empowers the volunteer as well as those in need.

Fun as a Volunteer:

We want our volunteers to have fun whilst they are staying with us here in at Children's Sure House. With this in mind we also set up various activities for volunteers when they are not working, whether it be Football, Netball and Volleyball matches against the CSH School. We also visit traditional wedding ceremonies, Ssenga's and Queen Elizabeth National Park. We here at CSH know that volunteering Uganda is not easy, but it is fun with right attitude.

Other projects that our volunteers can get involved in include:

·         Providing training in safe motherhood skills

·         Birth control and reproductive health education

·         HIV/AIDS education support

·         Nutrition education

·         Financial and business management

·         Tailoring training to out of school youth

·         Farming

·         Typing and computer skills

·         Setting up Databases

·         Training people in writing wills and making memory books

·         Home economics, managing a home budget

·         Community mobilization for HIV/AIDS counselling and testing/education.

·         Teaching English as a second language

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