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This is a development opportunity, spending 8 weeks in Uganda, supporting a children’s centre with your expertise in disease prevention and control, as part of the International Learning Opportunities Programme funded by the Welsh Government.
The children’s centre is based in Mbale in Eastern Uganda, with 30 full time staff and 51 children who daily attend the day centre, 30 children on community feeding and 60 children under early childhood education. The children’s centre is a safe place where children under 3 years old have access to nutritious meals, medical services, play and physiotherapy, as well as early years learning sessions that promotes their healthy development. Whilst the children are at the day centre, the mothers are given the opportunity to access work, in turn enabling them to provide for their families in a sustainable way.
In addition to the day centre, the centre supports families with a range of programmes such as income-generating training, savings groups, counselling and domestic abuse support. It closely works with the malnutrition unit in the regional referral hospital to provide an evening meal for every child admitted, as well as supporting individual children from within Mbale who are struggling with severe acute malnutrition.
The biggest slum in Mbale has many medical related challenges and regular disease outbreaks such as cholera. The placement will involve basic research with the parents and children at the Centre as well as with local leaders, to ascertain the causes of the disease outbreaks and propose the best, basic ways to manage health in the community.
Placement activities may include:
You will be an epidemiologist, preferably with training or experience in a child-based environment.
For further details or to apply, email the Welsh Government Wales and Africa team at walesandafrica@gov.wales.
The International Learning Opportunities programme (ILO) provides a development opportunity to spend 8 weeks in Lesotho, Namibia or Uganda.
We source a wide range of projects with a diverse group of established partners in these three very different countries.
The ILO programme aims to improve the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of both sub-Saharan Africa and Wales through a variety of mutually beneficial projects, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The ILO programme gives individuals from the public, business and third sectors in Wales the opportunity to work on projects designed to both enhance their leadership skills and deliver a developmental outcome for their hosts. The opportunities listed illustrate placements requested but other opportunities may also be available. Overall, we conduct about 10 placements a year and would not expect to deploy more than one person to any organisation at a time. This scheme is open to anyone who lives or works in Wales. We are particularly interested to receive applications from members of the African diaspora.
