Volunteer in Ghana

  Ghana

• Other Cities in Ghana: 
Tamale

Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer, Throughout the year, Trimester, Winter 
Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months and 1-2 years
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: Througout the Year

Description: The Home stay and Cultural Immersion program (Volunteer in Ghana) is intended to promote language studies and intercultural exchange aimed at developing long term international relations and understanding. We also organize tour for our volunteers, who want to tour Ghana or any part of Ghana to see the beautiful tourist sites in Ghana: the largest man made lake in the world, the mole national park, the Salaga slave market, the Paga crocodile pond, the oldest tree in Ghana, the oldest king in Africa. The buti water falls, the monkey sanctuary, the hanging stone etc.

Volunteers teach and contribute towards community school building and renovations in remote villages in Ghana and also to visit more tourist places and neighboring countries like Nigeria, Male, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cote 'D'Iviore. Our volunteers also live with African host families.

* Community Volunteer Placements
It is possible to provide volunteers with work placements in community projects, small-scale industries, public institutions and Non-governmental Organizations (NGO's) in Ghana. This program provides students with hands-on experience and helps them to see and understand Ghanaian life. There are opportunities in both rural and urban areas. Most often these participants are placed with a family who has some affiliation with the work placement. We have partnership arrangements with institutions in Ghana in a wide range of fields including: education, agriculture, construction, environment and disaster relief, water and sanitation, data collection/statistics, health and population, small-scale enterprise development, eco-tourism, health and environment, child care, women in development, rehabilitation for physically and mentally handicapped, AIDS projects, office/computer, rural technology, food and nutrition orphanages, home for the disabled.

* Teaching Internship
Our Teaching Internship is designed to give university students the opportunity to develop their teaching skills in a structured setting. The student teacher will have a teacher mentor and supervisor at the school where they are working. Student teachers are also given an extra five-day orientation specific to teaching in the Ghanaian school system.

* Internship Programs
Internship programs provide opportunities for both students and employees to further the students' career by volunteering their services and learning new methods while expanding their knowledge. We place participants with both private and public institutions and Non-governmental Organizations.

Highlights: Depends on each program. Generally, a volunteer is at work by 8:00 and works till 4:00pm. Get to socialize with new found friends and other volunteers you meet on projects after dinner at one of the several out-pubs with loud speakers blasting with irresistible African tunes and atmosphere filled with the African Aroma of Barbeque. Chat on anything ranging from local soccer, politics, sharing your shocks and work stories, immigration issues, etc.

Cost in US$: 900

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Application Process Involves:

• Disciplinary Clearance Form
• Letters of Reference
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Development Concern Centre's Mission Statement: To find ways and means to enhance the socio economic status of people in the Northern Region through the use of available human and natural resources. The major goal of DECC is to help mitigate rural poverty, suffering and hunger through the use of natural resources available and by working with international volunteers and donors. The vision of DECC is to plant knowledge and assistance in urban and rural people to enable them recognize the vast amount of human and natural resources available in their various communities and use these human and natural resources wisely in the development of their communities and eventually become social and economic independence.

Year Founded: 2005