Background:
Mentor Volunteers Students Association is a students’ movement under Mentor Volunteers Uganda, a humanitarian organisation founded to protect, provide guidance to the youth, meet their needs and interests, develop community through voluntary work, international youth exchange, information sharing so as to achieve social development.
Mentor Volunteers Students’ Association was initiated in the International Youth Convention that took place at Katosi, Ntenjeru sub-county Mukono district Uganda where its pioneering members spoke out to their fellows who succumbed to its formation which accounts for its present and future firm stand.

Mission;
Encourage and involve young people to voluntary in order to shape their world.
Vision:
“A shaped world for young people“.

Aim:
To involve young people (students) in national and international development programmes.

Projects:

• Educational sponsorship
• Student volunteering
• Exchange programme
• Health and environment
• Leadership skills
• Chemical substances
• Children’s rights
• Students’ retreats /conventions /camps
• Arts and culture

NB: The students’ association of Mentor Volunteers welcomes volunteers short and long term that can make a difference in the association, society, community dealing with the above mentioned projects.

Objectives:

• Developing student-volunteering opportunities.
• Increase the skills, knowledge and abilities of students.
• To work in partnership with communities, development agencies, government and parents in the battle to have a developing Uganda and the whole world at large.
• Develop and encourage unity among young people [students] as a foundation for development
• To look for funds to raise the hearts of youths out of the burning fire as they fail to get a chance of attaining secondary, tertiary and university education.

Volunteers’ Benefits

• Learning about cultures (cross- cultural exchange)
• Volunteering abroad in the area of interest to help the distressed as we Mentor Volunteers have it as a motto "we serve to relieve distress". This includes both short and long term volunteer projects
• Tours and travels for example physical features like our trip scheduled next year to Dar-es -salam by bus via features like; Kampala city (Uganda’s capital), River Nile (the world’s longest river), River Naivasha, Mabira forest (Uganda’s biggest forest), Game reserves, Nairobi (East and Central Africa’s most developed city), Dodoma (Tanzania’s capital), Dar –es- salam port, the historical Indian Ocean, Zanzibar island and many more.
• Studying opportunities in Ugandan schools which one of the riding country in education in Africa.
• Making friends in this, I call upon your assistance in helping us have this by carrying out a Friendship creating programme there as it is here

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ RETREAT-JINJA [I.S.R]
May 2005

Theme: ‘ Facing the Challenges’.

Jinja is located along the Uganda-Kenya highway, a suitable place for camping and other social gatherings. People speak Luganda, Lusoga, Swahili, and English. It’s famous for its attractive natural features for example: Namave forest, Mabira forest, River Nile and it’s source, Bujagali falls, Owen falls and the dam Lake Victoria among others.

It’s highly productive with: sugarcanes, matooke [bananas], cassava, fruits like mangoes, paw paws, among others plus it’s possession of an industrial area.

I.S.R. is to mainly focus on;

• Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health.
• HIV/AIDS and the Youths.
• Drugs and Chemical substances.
• Volunteerism for global sustainable development.
• Humanism for peace and global development.
• Environmental conservation
• Others like educational music dance and drama, sports etc.

Lecturing and educational programmes are to be handled by recognized NGOs working at national and international levels, depending on their area of specialization.
NB: If you have an organisation and you want in to take up any lecturing or educational programme in the retreat inform us so that we put you on programme.