Where do I stay during the one-week language program? Where do I stay during the volunteering period? What do I eat? What about shower and restrooms? Do you accommodate special diets?
Volunteers who enroll in our Language and Culture Program volunteers will stay with a local host family. During this week long program, three (3) local meals a day are provided. At the close of the Language and Culture Program, IFRE's local coordinators transport participants to their respective projects where they will be introduced to their local project staff and respective host family (if applicable).
The vast majority of our Uganda-based volunteers stay at our Uganda homebase for the duration of their projects. However, many volunteers participating in our orphanage project stay in the orphanage (where a separate room is set aside for international volunteers). Orphanage project participants are provided private room as well as three meals a day. The bathroom and kitchen facilities are normally shared with the host family and/or other volunteers. The Ugandan diet is primarily vegetarian, consisting of bread, vegetables, lentil soup, curry, and pickles. Except for vegetarians, we do not accommodate any special diets.
The mission of IFRE Volunteers is to offer the most affordable as well as the highest quality volunteer and humanitarian abroad experiences - enabling us to make a contribution for all of humanity in its quest to make the world a better place. Through our volunteer and humanitarian trips abroad, we aim to spread love and compassion worldwide while improving the lives of destitute children and less-fortunate communities. We at IFRE also seek sustainable solutions in the fields of education, healthcare, conservation efforts and development issues through international volunteering.
