Redroad’s service-learning tours provide opportunities for your group to join hands with and contribute to Ugandan and Rwandan communities in significant and meaningful ways.
Whether your tour is curriculum, mission, or experience driven, our goal remains the same: To help you design, plan, and carry out a service-learning program that deeply impacts the hearts and minds of tour participants and service recipients alike.
Educational trips in Uganda can take many forms, but they naturally all involve learning in some form. So, it seems apt that one of the most popular experiences on our Uganda student tour program is building and renovating classrooms, where learning begins for most children.
We work with organizations to identify the needs of public schools and then arrange for our groups to assist with construction. Participants may also help out with other activities at schools, such as organizing sports clinics, movie nights or dramatic performances to teach subjects specific for local students.
Many communities in eastern Uganda struggle to access clean water for domestic use, a problem that worsens during periods of drought. This can lead to the spread of disease, and also causes children to miss out on schooling as they need to walk for miles to fetch water.
Our Uganda educational tours partner with a small organization to raise funds for and build community wells, projects that normally take the students last five or six days to complete. This is an immensely rewarding service learning experience on school trips to Africa that can be combined with volunteering in a local medical clinic.
In partnership with local authorities, we work with a number of medical clinics around eastern and northern Uganda. Many of these areas have no basic health care provision so this is a vital service. Students interested in participating in medical work during an educational tour in Uganda might be involved in a range of different tasks such as: malaria testing and treatment; personal health care education; distributing mosquito nets, sanitary pads and multivitamins, and helping to dress wounds and abscesses.
We also work with an organization called Sole Hope to organize medical outreaches treating jigger infestation.