The charity Nurture Africa is looking for IMPACT members to volunteer for two weeks’ work in Uganda in April. It’s an opportunity for you to share your skills with a local community project, which is part-supported by IMPACT, and to help bring about sustainable change in a developing country. It’s also a chance to experience a different culture and see first-hand how IMPACT’s developing world fund is helping improve lives in Africa.

The union’s developing world fund – made up of 3% of all IMPACT members’ union subs – supports trade union and community development projects around the world. Since 2012 it has been supporting Nurture Africa, an Irish charity that provides health care and education for orphans and children affected by HIV-AIDS in Uganda. The organisation also supports employment and health education programmes in the communities where the children live. 

Now the union is sponsoring five two-week placements for IMPACT members in April 2014. IMPACT will meet the sponsorship cost of €1,500 – cash which will go directly to providing services to vulnerable children and their communities. All you have to do is give your skills for two weeks and meet the cost of flights and vaccinations.

In November 2013, four IMPACT members spent two weeks working on projects. This was the second group of IMPACT volunteers to travel to Uganda last year, following a group of IMPACT volunteers who travelled there in April 2013. Click here to watch a short film of our four volunteers talking about their experience. You can also read their individual accounts, and find out more details for prospective volunteers, on the IMPACT blog.