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APPLICATION FOR SUMMER TRIP RE-OPEN UNTIL 4TH OF JUNE (This Sunday)
This is your chance if you grieved over missing the deadline! Didn't get an internship like myself(...) so have got no plan from 24th August to 13th September? Why not go to Uganda and work on social action projects concerning youth unemployment, gender-based violence, household income, so on and so on.
Contact us at any time for any questions!

Disability is shamed in Uganda - children are often denied education, parents hide them from public view - and the most vulnerable cases in remote rural areas undergo starvation and ritual sacrifice. Adults face widespread discrimination in workplace and sexual harassment that is generally unreported.

Disability Rights Initiative strives to help those with disabilities to receive equal treatment. The team aims to raise awareness of these issues and provide legal representation for people with disabilities around Uganda in the long-term. Currently on Uganda’s side, most of the team are lawyers with disabilities.


Learn more: http://www.unitedpartnerships.org/project/disability-rights-initiative/ and contact us to volunteer.

Vertical Micro-Gardens has developed a product which could greatly increase the incomes of communities and households in areas where there is not much space by developing a ‘garden’ which has several layers on top of each other so that not much horizontal space is needed.

Contact us to join the project!

http://www.unitedpartnerships.org/project/vmg/

Looking for Oxford volunteers to work on


In Uganda, one third of the population lack access to a clean water source. Filters For Schools in partnership with SPOUTS of Water, a US-based non-profit, provides ceramic water filters to schools to reduce the prevalence of water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid, and cholera. And provide a basic training on sanitation to the children.

For more information:
http://www.unitedpartnerships.org/project/filters-for-schools/

Youth in Uganda struggles from serious unemployment. Today we introduce "The Striving African", a social enterprise that tackles this problem.


TSA works much like an apprenticeship scheme, connecting unemployed and undereducated youth in Uganda with local business men in a variety of fields so that they can learn a trade from them, and then have the skills necessary to either start out on their own or find employment in that field.

We are recruiting Oxford student volunteers to work with TSA. If you want to learn more about it and join, message us or email us at [email protected].

Application for summer trip is closed, but remote volunteering opportunities await you. In Oxmak, you can work on social action projects run by Ugandan peers at Makerere University via social media like Whatsapp and Skype.

We have a great variety; there is something for every single one of you. Does any of these interest you?

For following posts, we will come with project descriptions but you are more than welcome to contact us in advance!!!

I luv Rolex. I bet you will luv it too.

If you felt interested even for a single second, get in contact with us and we will help you decide. Our committee members are genuinely lovely (hopefully including myself)!
Also, the more informed we are, the better decisions we make. (Oxmak, 2017)

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Elephant traffic

The chance to go on safari in Murchison Falls National Park was not one to pass up. I had been on safari once before, in South Africa, but this was something altogether different. The first time we saw an elephant I could barely contain my excitement. Majestic grey ears flapping intermittently, the lone creature plodded calmly down the road, ignoring us almost entirely, as we waited behind for it to move on from the path.

Coming from a rural area in Surrey, I’m very used to waiting for other road users to move on - it’s a rare journey that isn’t delayed by a tractor, horse, bicycle or pedestrian - but this was something different and even after seeing so many more elephants (and hippos, giraffes, warthogs and baboons) after that, I don’t think I will ever be able to resent an elephant blocking the way or ever tire of watching them move around in packs - particularly when there are baby elephants around! Also, if you have never seen a giraffe run, it is a very amusing sight!

Happy May Day! But it also means that the application for our Summer Trip to Uganda closes in a week :( Still didn't make up your mind? Then listen to the stories from last year's team; how amazing, inspiring, and fruitful the trip was :D



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Patience and Hope

"I knew when I signed up for the trip that it would meet a lot of interesting people in Uganda and that we would develop closer friendships with the students at Makarere University that we were working with. What I didn’t think though, was that I would meet someone like Victor Ochen.

The first Ugandan nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, this man has done so much to encourage reconciliation in the north of the country after the war that tore apart his childhood. He was the keynote speaker at the conference run by UniTED at the end of the trip to recruit new projects and we also went for dinner with him afterwards and got the chance to talk to him and his friend (a very interesting character in his own right!) over some nice food at a restaurant on campus.

He was, put simply, an inspiring man, and a man who emanated patience and hope, two characteristics which can be seen shining from many a heart in Uganda in a way that seems so much less common in the UK."

****RECRUITING: third project****
DRI strives to provide more justice for people with disabilities.
Disability is shamed in Uganda - children are often denied education, parents hide them from public view - and the most vulnerable cases in remote rural areas undergo starvation and ritual sacrifice. Adults face widespread discrimination in workplace and sexual harassment that is generally unreported. Therefore, the team aims to raise awareness of these issues and provide legal representation for people with disabilities around Uganda in the long-term.


Visit http://www.unitedpartnerships.org/project/disability-rights-initiative/ and contact [email protected] for more information.