Volunteering in Uganda through Epic Gorilla Trails: Volunteering through Epic Gorilla Trails is open for all ages throughout the year departing every Saturday at all major airports of Uganda and Rwanda. Come and be part of a team on a participatory tour to Uganda for meaningful impacts working with the local people living in harmony with nature. As a volunteer choosing to join our activism packages while exploring cultures and discovering wildlife gives you ample opportunities to reward your safari spirit. Through all the working days our volunteers become part of enthusiastic conservationists, nature lovers and the local community on daily conservation missions determined to experience Africa you don’t browse online or read in books. Our volunteering packages are put together with major highlights for your working experience to change the world through activism for wildlife conservation and livelihoods support into the Mountain Gorillas homeland. Volunteers taking part into our affordable programe will meet the generous peopling of Uganda, the locals will be happy to work with you and show you their amazing landscapes with varied array of wildlife. Why not come and make positive changes to local people’s lives while saving critically endangered wildlife species from extinction. Time spent in Uganda will be your chance to get away from the familiar home environment and get immersed into unknown traditions and rural environments of Natural Uganda. The reward is an exciting and life changing volunteer experience professionally led for truth and fun!

We believe in togetherness and sharing of tasks for better results, In order to be able to achieve this common goal things must be done right both at home and internationally. We are the people to make our world a better place, imagine if we only exist without all those little and large creatures around us. It’s overwhelmingly frustrating how many species are getting extinct both in animals and plants every season. But me and you, together we can do something and it’s already time. So Act now while we together put in place a get-together wildlife and livelihood support mission as harmonized through these two weeks allocated for your active volunteering in Uganda. Epic Gorilla Trails carries all volunteer activities in an environmentally friendly system. We are focused to achieve our goals everyday through an integrated conducive operand effective to proceed while considering: •Airport reception and drop-off: This is done once every week on specifically Saturday at all major airports in Uganda’s Entebbe or Kigali in Rwanda international airports. We drop volunteers ending their placement while welcoming new entrants. Our sense to connect to the airport is by mass transit and we do offer group shuttle services where it’s necessary for controlling the carbon cycles. •Selecting Hotels, lodging and restaurants: Our accommodation considered are close to nature in the southern sector of Bwindi impenetrable national park. We pay much attention to procedures that positively contribute to the community hence emphasizing zero waste management. •Daily internal volunteer Transportation: We Use diverse modes of transport when getting to and from the projects. We recommend walking for short distances, use of motorcycles locally known as bodabodas or using our own volunteer Vans to get to and from the activity areas or getting to the next destination. •Handling Communications: We are currently handling all the volunteers’ inquiries in our central communication Getaways through friendly person to person approaches shared with us at Epic Gorilla Trails website and our Country reservations manager Mr. Rabani Turyasingura will be available to provide all the ground administrative support to all inquiries through his soft friendly mode of communication. All details are currently provided through individual emails for inquiries and other general travel practicalities. Online meetings are possible through all our volunteer mentorship cohorts in Uganda and abroad. No information will be sent through the post because as An Eco-company we chose to be paperless. Destination and activity maps plus other interactive materials will be printed on recycled papers, reusable and will be carried by volunteers or field officer.</p>

Volunteering through Epic Gorilla Trails is open for all ages throughout the year departing every Saturday at all major airports of Uganda and Rwanda. Come and be part of a team on a participatory tour to Uganda for meaningful impacts working with the local people living in harmony with nature. As a volunteer choosing to join our activism packages while exploring cultures and discovering wildlife gives you ample opportunities to reward your safari spirit. Through all the working days our volunteers become part of enthusiastic conservationists, nature lovers and the local community on daily conservation missions determined to experience Africa you don’t browse online or read in books. Our volunteering packages are put together with major highlights for your working experience to change the world through activism for wildlife conservation and livelihoods support into the Mountain Gorillas homeland. Volunteers taking part into our affordable programe will meet the generous peopling of Uganda, the locals will be happy to work with you and show you their amazing landscapes with varied array of wildlife. Why not come and make positive changes to local people’s lives while saving critically endangered wildlife species from extinction. Time spent in Uganda will be your chance to get away from the familiar home environment and get immersed into unknown traditions and rural environments of Natural Uganda. The reward is an exciting and life changing volunteer experience professionally led for truth and fun!

our volunteering in Bwindi and Mgahinga conservation areas is too rewarding to you as avolunteer and the host community. Considering to book your volunteering trip to Uganda withus gives you confident due to the fact that your time spent with us as a volunteer will be in one of the world’s most incredible region shared by three Great East African states of Uganda, Rwanda and D.R.Congo. This is where endangered wildlife tends to concentrate. All our projects for your placements enables you to daily work into the Albertine Rift valley, aworld wonder and green belt featuring Bwindi forest, the gallant volcanic chains of the virunga massif and Mgahinga Gorilla national park all forming a breathtaking environment. For millions of years this Africa’s conservancy zone has been conducive for endangered species and human life in harmony. Acase in point is the Mountain gorillas and the Batwa who once lived inside Bwindi forest until 1994. Our volunteer packages include memories of explorations inside and outside Bwindi and Mgahinga forests on greatest traditional encounters.Our volunteers to Uganda will prove that through Epic Gorilla Trails knowledge and professionalism, their volunteering programmes are locally run hence.

Tailored volunteer experience:

we are flexible to customise this two weeks volunteer programme into a personalized volunteer experience. We do this together with the volunteer and according to the volunteer’s expectations like time frame, number of people and travel season. This programme can be extended or shortened some days as lower as five days of your volunteer experience. We customize the experience to meet your schedule considering costs and group size. One pax admission is allowed and available on inquiry but this will involve more costs.

Community integrated approach:

Our host community needs, values and norms are respected through our all projects and we respect them, we follow our responsible policies to advise and follow the right trend of consultation should there be need for change.
Our volunteer placements offers direct impacts with hands on site approach: By volunteering with us, you’re sure your impact is directed into the host community for wildlife conservation and livelihood support. Note your positive impacts will be measured every day on our real hands-on site work plans.

You will work in incredible landscapes:

We take you to the most incredible landscapes on the world with hospitable locals and amazing wildlife. Our responsible tourism sense will allow you to explore this region without causing harm to our cultures and wildlife.

Experiencing three countries at ago:

Through your volunteering with us, we will always introduce you into three countries of Uganda, Rwanda and D.R.Congo. You will always be guided into the trans-boundary experience thus interacting with locals and learning from them.

Personal alone time in the wild:

You’re free to take a path less visited and sometimes imagining you’re the only one in this area. Far from the common touristic places, you will have your alone time in the remote and scenic wild places of Uganda. We hope this will help you to reflect and connect with Mother Nature. On one evening you can take a walk with your mat on top of the local hills in case you love Yoga.

Creating friendship through travel:

Our packages introduce volunteers into communities hence allowing volunteers to create friendship through participatory travelling.

Personal Respect and appreciation:

Appreciating each individual’s contributions, on each task, we respect individual contribution, remember it’s our tradition to share.

Additional safari ideas:

Volunteering through Epic Gorilla Trails is operated and managed by Safari experts who are available to plan your next trip to Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania or D.R.Congo

UNDERSTANDING OUR VOLUNTEER PLACEMENTS: Our volunteers placements are meant to work alongside a team of local experts on different projects for conservation initiatives and humanity. After our long working relations into Responsible eco-tourism encompassed along our daily running safaris, it was realized that there is a range of tourists who want to get deeper into wildlife conservation while experiencing the local lifestyle of Ugandans beyond the common safari traditions hence the birth of this actively vivid volun-tourism profile. These working experiential trips provided for all volunteers enables them to gain an insight into the conservation world while exploring traditionally rich mosaics of rural Uganda. Our volunteers work alongside a local team of field experts daily on a different unique activity, this working approach is integrated into the local communities, organizations and village committees. We make sure that our volunteers will always be motivated by the joy of their participation to learn, feel, discover, explore, touch and that’s what is seen in the field every day hence carrying this experience through the rest of their life even at the end of their working voluntourism trip.
Our volunteers are placements in Uganda are entangled on three major projects meant for harmonizing the relationships between wildlife corridors and local living into the Southern Bwindi Impenetrable National park-a natural home to more than 460 mountain Gorillas.

Bwindi forest community boundary projects:

Establishment and maintain effective operating procedures for wildlife conservation and locals to live in harmony with Nature into the southern forest edge of Bwindi impenetrable forest. Our volunteers will be involved with a range of activities such as preparing indigenous tree nursery beds, seed collection, sorting and sowing, enrichment tree planting, collection of field data, consultations with local communities and building infrastructure support relevant to wildlife and community conservation initiatives.

Bwindi Gorilla Kitchen Garden projects:

You may find yourself working in a local community garden in Rubuguri villages South of Bwindi forest or in the demonstration plot at Bwindi Gorilla Scenic Lodge. Volunteering into Bwindi Gorilla Kitchen Garden projects is not only for organic farming of local food stuff but we look at an active practical approach for effective soil conservation and proper land use patterns into this remote corner of Albertine rift while raising concerns for the dwindling home food security. You’re working to combat down effects of hunger and malnutrition around bwindi and Mgahinga conservation areas.

Nkuringo Buffer Zone Project:

Our volunteer placements working into Nkuringo buffer zone project is another great way to advocate and maintain a sustainable safe Mountain Gorillas home range while working to solve the dangers of conservation conflicts into this area. The inner zone is a mountain gorilla habitat while the outer zone is being turned into a tea estate as an animal crop problem solution. However, more plans must be put in place for people and wildlife to live in harmony e.g. planting of Mauritius thorns, well thought farming practices like integrating Hot pepper lots into farming to keep away vermin animals like monkeys, baboons and wild pigs etc. as common causes of crop raids into villages. Our volunteers into this projects are part of a team of locals who work to spend days monitoring the baboons in the Kashasha Baboon valley trails no to raid people’s crops.

OUR VOLUNTEERS’ WEEKEND SIDE TRIPS: Several communities that we work with at the boundary of Bwindi impenetrable forest offer opportunity for you to spend time with the local Ugandan indigenous tribes like the Batwa people of Uganda. These are forest dwellers who were evicted from the forest in 1994 to pave away for mountain gorilla conservation. They currently have their shelters at the hanging villages near the parks boundary and time will be spent to work and earn more about their amazing traditions. We don’t go to places with staged authenticity, where people perform dances for money. We want to ensure that our visits are beneficial both to our volunteers and to our hosts. We are looking at creating a team of responsible Eco-cadres who are able to actively preserve wildlife and Uganda’s unique authentic culture for future generations. Every package has a volunteer’s side getaway!

Our volunteer placement is at the centre of three countries i.e Uganda, Rwanda and D.R.Congo. This is a natural panorama stretching through the Albertine Rift Valley with endless opportunities to experience traditional lifestyles, wildlife and scenic routes beyond the common daily safari norm. Mountain gorilla tracking is just kilometers away from our Volunteers house, your weekend can take you to Lake Bunyonyi, Lake Mutanda and Murehe for various dugout canoeing trips. Your daily schedules will immerse you into Uganda’s remote corners to explore the arts and craft which may include, working alongside our Kora women weaving basketry for household income, beading, painting, pottery, jewelry, headgear making and you can spend time while working with youths tailoring/designing of local fabrics into attractive attires like dresses.

From Kampala/Entebbe to Bwindi. Bwindi volunteers’ house is accessible from Entebbe international airport, Kampala in Uganda or from Kigali international airport in Rwanda. The route from Kampala to Bwindi involves 10 hours of road transfer, though longer it’s the most preffered tourist drive with scenic wonders of unparalleled road side tourism. From Kampala exit the city to arrive at Buganda loyal drum makers at Mpambire, proceed to the Imaginary equator crossing and continue driving in through rolling greenery to arrive in Mbarara for lunch. The same drive will pass through elevated Kigezi highlands, Lake Bunyonyi then leave the paved road to turn right after Muko. The murram road experience will lead you to Rubuguri town, from here Bwindi Volunteers’ House is just 4 km from Rubuguri town on the continuation road to Nkuringo sector.
Flying in from Entebbe. Bwindi Volunteers’ House is located on the southern boundary of Bwindi forest can be accessed by Aerolink flights from Entebbe, flights depart every day 07:45-08:55 arriving Kisoro at Nyakabande. From here the 25 kilometers driving leading through panoramic views of Mufumbiro escarpments and Virunga massif will reveal Bwindi forest to you.

From Kigali in Rwanda: After your arrival at Kanombe Kigali international airport, the meandering road trip is five hours to arrive at Bwindi Volunteers’ House.

This is the most preffered route for all tourists entering Uganda as major activities tend to concentrate in the south western conservation circuit of the country.