MENTOR - Wise and trusted counsellor or teacher, who gives great advice, helps people with less experience.

VOLUNTEERS - People who do something especially helping others willingly and without being forced or paid to do it, deal with problems before they are spread to other areas organised to lead others in and out doors.

UGANDA
The Pearl of Africa with flowing rivers, High mountains, lakes, forests, National parks, Rift valleys etc in which MVU is based.

Mentor Volunteers Uganda is a Voluntary community service youth organisation founded in Uganda to protect, guide and provide Development services to young people, meet their needs and interests, develop the community through Voluntary work, International Youth exchange, International understanding, Idea sharing as a mean of promoting social development.

Mentor Volunteers Uganda gives freedom to young volunteers to think and opportunities to develop themselves Physically, Mentally, Culturally and Spiritually. MVU works in close collaboration with other organisation to improve and support the development of local community projects, cross-culture exchange and international understanding in Uganda. For example UNASO, JYAK, UVP, Red Cross, IHEYO, Earth Corps, World Wide Volunteering UK, Planet foundation Hungary, KVDA, TAYEN, EWANET, Africa Alive, Straight Talk, Rural Health foundation, and many others.

Our role is to build the capacity of young people by encouraging and involving them in decision making, participate in activities that develop the community, Express their views, share information, experience, challenges, and to put a bridge between adults and young by organizing volunteer projects and open discussion together MVU brings young people together as a family with no differences. MVU staff members must ever be seeking opportunities to do good, create and stimulate awareness of people in distress and to educate them .In this way, by the Grace of God truly men open doors to hearts enlist interests of indifferent ones and finally leads others to know God

MEMBERSHIP
Mentor volunteers is a non – Sectarian, non political organisation for young people of vision, talent and energy. With its membership and partners coming from all levels of the society. It attracts people of both sexes,

ACTION BOUND
The name Mentor Volunteers is a concise statement of our primary intent. To ensure action on pressing needs rather than talking about them. Over 6 years of progress it seems apparent that no mistake was made in choosing the name of this mighty movement. In ever increasing number of our young volunteers are responding to the appeal of this name and volunteering for the services at home and abroad. It is a Blessed name to its members and the Nationality for it represents to them new and deeper consecration, new ideas and new aspirations. It also represents a greater cooperation and dynamic training to all our people.

Volunteering is a place of learning experience. Young people need international exposure to the complicity of the modern societies. Through volunteering they receive education and experience and they become qualified to do a work. They learn to accept different values and become responsible, active and return home as effective witness. Friendship through these activities if shared is an experience between international and National volunteers.

AIM To enable young people develop their fullest potential as responsible citizens. .

MOTTO  Ready for service

VISION  A Prepared future life for young people

MISSION
Our mission to the world is to encourage young people deliver voluntary work. This fact must be impressed upon the minds of our children and youth. It must be woven into the very fibre of their being. The teaching in schools must all be designed to impress the minds of our children and young people that their mission as individuals must be the mission of the whole people to give voluntary service to all the world. If this is done when they are young the impression will never leave them. When they come to the years of responsibility and are called to decide their life services. They will surely be influenced by this great fact.

OUR FIELD The field is the world. It is to the world that we are to give the voluntary service in our day. This means that we must go to all the world continents and divisions. We must navigate all the great rivers and lakes of all countries, We must work our way into the heart of all countries. We must learn the language of the people, That’ is our mission to the world.

Having spread our selves and gotten a foothold in all these lands as we have, it does not seem so difficult to do this work, and yet it is a great work still.

To finish this work we must inspire our young people to consecrate their energies and lives. Our old men cannot go out to distant places, learn new languages and endure the privations incident to those fields.

That work must be done a young class of people, and they can hardly begin to young. Some of the strongest and the grandest volunteers of this last century were men and women who went to their mission fields under thirty years of age. We have a very definite message and why should not our young people, strong in God, understanding clearly the mission committed to them ? Why should not they become giants of strength among the people?

As we look upon this great work today, We have much to encourage us to go forward with our work. We have much to thrust us on. To impel us forward. Much to cause us to make earnest efforts to perform this work and fulfil this mission.

We want to inculcate the thought in our institutions every where and wherever we come in contact with our young people or our elder people either, That we have but one thing to do, volunteering for our community development.

OBJECTIVES

1. To Develop and encourage unity among young people as a foundation for social development.
2. To serve as role models listening ears and to provide supportive guidance to youth.
3. Develop the community through young peoples participation in voluntary work.
4. To equip young people with modern skills and knowledge
5. To promote recovery in the community where in times of distress.
6. To Develop the Leadership potentials of young who would like to commit themselves to volunteering.
7. Empower young people with self-Development and life skills trainings.
8. Strengthen national and international partnership through networking, information sharing and Youth exchange.
9. To develop the ability to use the problem solving approach in various life situations.
10. To inculcate into young people a sense of service, duty, leadership for participation in community development and good citizenship.
11. To improve the capacity of young people.
12. To protect, promote and observe the Human rights of children and provide service to children affected and infected by violence to recover from experience of trauma and violence.
13. To address the needs of the growing numbers Of AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
14. To provide Health and education among young people.