Capacity Building through Professional Volunteers

K4C has run its professional volunteering programme in Uganda since 2007 and has deployed over 350 doctors, midwives, nurses, allied health professionals, social workers and biomedical engineers. Our volunteers play crucial roles in supporting our ongoing projects and staff training programmes and providing high quality care for vulnerable patients. By working alongside local staff in hospitals, school and community based organisations, they are able to exchange highly valuable knowledge, skills and experience which builds the capacity of local staff and subsequently the quality of care and education received by patients and children. Our volunteers also gain knowledge, skills and experience themselves, which supports them to provide better care for patients in the UK once they return to the NHS. Separately, our professional volunteers also support our UK students whilst on placement, ensuring they receive top quality supervision and learn as much as possible from their time in Uganda and improve their practice in the UK. Most of our professional volunteers complete placements that are 6 months or longer. For these placements, K4C supports the volunteers by providing them with flights, accommodation and a subsistence allowance of £300 per month to cover their food, drink and other bills. We also pay for their work permits and any costs for clinical registration in Uganda. K4C is looking to expand its Professional Volunteering Programme to other locations in Uganda and also to new partner hospitals in Tanzania. On average, it costs K4C £4,200 (£700 per month) to send one professional volunteer out to Uganda/Tanzania for a 6-month placement. Please help us to do this by fundraising for this programme.