MVU Departments

Mentor Volunteers Uganda is composed of Five main departments. Each department is headed by a coordinator. The coordinator promotes and oversees the implementation and supervises its programs to MVU goals.

The 5 Departments are:

1 COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION
  1. HIV/AIDS Awareness
  2. First Aid Trainings and Services
  3. Adolescent reproductive Health
  4. Encouraging Blood Donating services
  5. Immunisation campaigns
In this Department we participate in the AIDS prevention, control, promote behaviour change and communication for safer sex and practices. We provide home based support for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. We Address reproductive Health issues e.g. Family planning, pregnancies etc. We advocate and campaigns in the fight against infantile diseases which needlessly kill millions of children each year.

Our objectives aim at

A Delaying first intercourse among youth who have not yet initiated sexual activities.

B Increasing secondary abstinence i.e. avoiding of intercourse among unmarried youth and young adults.

C Increasing safer behaviours, increasing martial fidelity, partnership reduction and reduction in sexual activity and violence among both youth and general population.

D Observe the Human rights of children and provide service to children affected and infected by violence to recover from experience of trauma and violence.

E Provide public awareness campaigns and community sensitisation on dangers of Drugs and other addictions that lead to HIV/AIDS.

We help young people to:

Avoid risky behaviours that lead to drug addiction and HIV.

Organise peer groups so that they can carry out drama, discussion, sports and voluntary work in their communities.

We help young people understand their sexual development, develop their life skills and to grow into a happy responsible adults .

We offer preventive services and care to youth and children infected and affected by HIV and drugs.

Other Health issues addressed are Hygiene, sanitation, Nutrition, First Aid Training and Services, Encouraging Blood Donating services, we motivates sensitise and encourage people to Donate blood to people whose life is in the shadows of death and to train First Aiders to act in emergencies as the major problems that are facing the community

2 MENTOR VOLUNTEERS GUIDES, JUNIORS AND TEENAGERS CLUB

Guides and JUNITEENS is a club that promotes MVU Goals in schools and youth groups. The guide and JUNITEEN club has program targeting young men to promote positive non violent images of masculinity and program targeting young girls to manage violence and to promote self-esteem. It also helps parents/ guardians to talk to children about their performance in school, being safe in school and preventing or reporting cases of defilement.

The programs are designed to put a bridge between teachers and students by organising open discussion together

The club also organises children workshop/conference on the role of student in UPE, Volunteering, Health education, peace education, Human right and development.

The program is designed to provide health services in school e.g. training on PIASCY and life skills, peer education guidance and counseling, promotion of girls retention and completion. ( sanitary materials, separate latrine for girls with washing facilities and protection from abuse ) Hygiene ( hand washing promotion, safe drinking water promotion, water source and latrine construction, latrine cleanness, school suppliers e.g. soap and others)

The department provides technical support and guidance to teachers association, to promote Guide and JUNITEENS activities .

The club exists to promote student peer clubs, youth groups, music dance and drama activities for school children promoting physical condition and hygiene.

The guides and JUNITEENS department is responsible to establish links and partnership between sanitary producers and schools to provide materials to schools

This department empowers young people to access information and services, including counselling and guidance and to provide super vision to families and country members to support Youth friendly services to improve knowledge, attitude and communication skills

The department is concerned to support parents, teachers school management committees,peer groups, youth groups to implement life skill and peer education activities

This Department is designed for young people from 10-18 years, including Students, Children, youth in and out of School.

Young people join this club because its program features activities that help young people meet their needs and interests. Much of their program is built around physical action. This means that young people from10-18 years are in first growing stage of Development. This stage is filled with action, adventures, challenges, group activities and personal growth or the Development of new attitudes towards growth.

The youth department exists primarily for youth to put abridge between parents and youth through active involvement with the club and its members as old work and play together in a bond of common experience.

Youth Programs
  1. Camping and survival skills.
  2. Leadership Courses
  3. First Aid Trainings and Services
  4. Youth friendly services
  5. Environmental conservation
  6. Sports Music, Dance drama and cultural Development
  7. International youth exchange
  8. Adolescent reproductive Health (school health education PIACSY)
  9. Marching
  10. Information on chemical substances
  11. Students Association and retreats
  12. Student Volunteering
  13. Promote peace education
  14. Skills Development/education
Skills development / education helps to understand and explain our community and to lay scientific ground on which to base our society structures.

Today millions of children are unable to go to school and are being denied their best chance to escape poverty, Its hard to change their life when they do not know how to read or write .

The guide and Juniteens department look forward to seek bursaries, sponsorship, or any support to make education for every child a reality

3 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT
  1. Environmental Conservation management
  2. Agricultural Projects


In Mentor Volunteers we train young volunteers along with leadership trainings, Community service, Multicultural understanding and to be responsible for environmental restoration projects, Environmental education training,Intensive Back Country Camping, Trail Construction, logging road removal, Stream restoration projects, water management, environmental conservation work camps, managing forests and plantation.

We believe that all resources whether they are Renewable or non renewable need to be conserved. Conservation is the wise and careful use of resources. It means maintain the quality of resources and not wasting them. Every one benefits from conservation. Conservation can help to produce and preserve resources for the present and future.

Our Mission is to introduce and Educate, Nature, Green Thinking and environmental protection to our young people.

Mentor Volunteers Uganda work towards ensuring that every young person has the opportunity to volunteer and make a positive difference in the community. This helps them to increase their skills, Knowledge and ability. Understand and appreciate the diversity of our society and work in partnership with communities for mutual benefits.

In Mentor Volunteers we perform Environmental restoration work involving restoration water ways, Trails and up land forests

During end of Term Holidays we lead groups of young Volunteers from one to three weeks environmental restoration work camps, in Mountains, shores of lakes and forests here we learn and share about environmental restoration. In this process we renew the health of the damaged areas.

This is Hard work we don’t just talk about environmental work, we do it involving Rifting .Digging, carrying, Using Heavy tools and moving large objectives and Women perform equal roles in the program.

Our mission is to introduce and educate the green thinking and environmental protection to our young people and

the community working with international volunteers, we can perform environmental restoration work involving:
  1. Forest management and tree planting
  2. Water management
  3. Environmentally friendly clubs
  4. Community organising and education
  5. Waste oil extraction in this process we get rid of waste oil an environmental hazard by converting it to a burning fuel to fire clay work
In this process we Providing work camp projects for young volunteers to help restore and conserve the environment of communities, and give education on environmental matters.

4 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
  1. Women Association.
  2. Functional Adult literacy.
  3. Human Rights advocacy
  4. Youth entrepreneurship
  5. Income generating activities
In Mentor Volunteers Uganda we believe that in a world with people with experience, information, Poverty and suffering is an injustice we can overcome. We believe that poor people usually have a clear idea of what could help them overcome their problem, but they luck the resources needed to put their ideas into practice. That’s where Mentor Volunteers comes in, Proving community development programs through voluntary work, providing skills that can lead people to employment, self esteem and income generating.

Mentor Volunteers enables Girls who are traditionally denied the right to earn an income and education get involved in all programs, improve their status in the community and to become self supporting from their traditional and to learn new things.

Functional Adult literacy helps them to understand and to explain their community and to lay ground work on which to base their society structures . Other issues address in this Department are Domestic Violence campaigns Human Rights campaigns which aims at raising awareness of their fundamental rights with a view of demanding and ensuring their realisation.

5 MENTOR VOLUNTEERS CHILDREN CENTRE
  1. Orphanage and vulnerable support.
  2. Vocational training.
MEVOCE children centre was started in a humble way by Mentor volunteer Uganda and a group of Parents who were personally touched by the increasing number of Orphans due to HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

MEVOCE's emphasis is to improve the lives and meet the needs of vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS and to support referrals and food support .

Aims and objectives
  • To support families so that they can start income generating activities so that they can support their families.
  • To train communities in psychosocial support to orphans and vulnerable children.
  • To empower orphans and vulnerable children in the community
  • To provide basic support to people infected and affected with HIV.
  • To provide educational support to Aids Orphans.
  • To serve as role models, listening ears and to provide supportive guidance.
The most vulnerable are the children who have lost their family to AIDS . Uganda is one of the countries with high orphan rates in the world. The number is exceeding to 2 million. Some communities are still stigmatised AIDS orphans.

Most Orphans are cared for by grand parents who are to weak physically and economically to give the necessary child care and support, access to education, medical care and food.

Our work is to address their values system. Making sure these kids have school and food and a roof over their head.

MEVOVE has started to provide Vocational trainings, Due to inaccessibility to education. lack of education opportunities, high cost of education, orphans caused by HIV/AIDS AND WARS violence against children in home, unwanted pregnancy, has led to an increasing number of school drop-outs.

The Aim is to offer skills to young people in difficult circumstances.