Activities
These include children's camps, and children's Christmas parties (at which Mr and Miss YMCA are selected). There is participation in youth exchange programmes: the USA-based International Camp Counselor Programme, and the Multi-National Leadership Training Programme at Snow Mountain Ranch.
The National Secretariat manages the YMCA Complex at Jinja, hired out for conference and leisure use.
The Computer School is located in the Kampala YMCA, and operates in parallel with the separate Kampala YMCA Computer School. It offers a diploma in Computer Science and Business Studies; and also a special institutional programme for those in higher education; computer maintenance and a course in maintenance of peripherals and mobiles phones; and an internet café.
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