YOBAC (Youth Organization for Building African Communities) - Nursery & Primary school

Karibu dear volunteers,

I am Albert, a Congolese refugee and I founded the YOBAC Organization when I was 18 aiming to make my refugee brothers’ and sisters’ lives better.

We are a community-based organization which provides access to quality education for refugee children. You will get an opportunity to interact with people from a various backgrounds, since we are working with refugees from the DRC., Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya. Every one of these country has its own cultures that you can learn and experience.

We are settled in Kyangwali refugee settlement. We are also mentoring, sensitizing and inspiring children to go to school and working with mothers to start sustainable businesses to sustain their families in the refugee camp.
We are running a Nursery and Primary school. We love to welcome volunteers to support us at our school in Kikuube district, teaching, playing, dancing, singing with the kids and enjoying the local life with the whole staff-team.

We offer volunteering opportunities for various amount of time. Whether it is one week or three month, we are happy that you want to work with us. We are an incredibly flexible organization so you can try various tasks to see which one suits you the best! If you want an idea of the sorts of things we offer at our organization, feel free to look down below!

We run the school from Monday to Friday. On the weekends, you are free to enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Going to the market, to the lake, playing football in the village with the kids – and so much more!

We can’t wait to welcome you as part of our team!

Common Volunteer/Intern Activities:
- ​​Assisting our Volunteer Coordinator with the management of the fellow volunteers on site
- Assist our teachers in class with their existing curricullums.
- Play with children at school during the break.
- ​Teaching English as a second language
- Assisting teams in sport for development (SFD)
- ​Visiting families (outreach program)
- ​Conducting research in refugee communities
- Assisting the organization to improve the website.​
- Training the youth in peace and conflict, health, sexual gender based violence (SGBV), human/refugee rights, etc.
​- Visiting and conducting research on refugees in the camps
- Helping the Organization in fundraising and Marketing.

You will be part of our team. We are 25 staff-members (aging from 20 to 40) - teachers, administrative and managing team... We share our culture through story telling, sharing ideas, traditions, and Knowledge. You will benefit trough interacting with us, hearing from our beneficiaries, eating together, touring different places in Kyangwali refugee camp and play with our children at school. We will be guiding you and sharing life experience while living in the refugee settlement. Your accommodation is directly in the school. The room is simple, but comfy. You have a mosquito-net, by night you can enjoy the sky full of stars, and the noise of our beloved crickets. We have a cat, chickens and the nature all around is green and exotic. The area is completely safe. But we have also a safety-security guy at the gate. You get breakfast, lunch and dinner, home-cooked with the local and seasonal fruits and vegetables. We eat the local dishes including Ugali, Beans, Fish from lack Albert and Victoria, Irish potatoes, eggs, bread, tea for breakfast etc.