Volunteering, Tourism and Internship Programs in Ghana

  Ghana

• Other Cities in Ghana: 
Kumasi

Term: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 
Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: January-December

Description: What Volunteer Africa has is, we travel around Ghana with a hired bus, lodge in hotels where appropriate and tour attraction centres.

Again, our high school programme is available to groups of students who would like to volunteer and tour around Ghana

Our internship programmes vary from art to architecture, kente weaving, journalism through to law. Opportunities avail in all these areas for our distinguished interns.

Highlights:
* Adventure Travel Programme
This programme takes a week of volunteer work and a week of travel around Ghana. Volunteers choose a project of their choice for the first week.

* High School
This programme is basically for groups of high school students who want to travel and volunteer as a group and tour Ghana as well. they are dispatched to various project sites and brought together to tour in their last week.

* Internship
Learn a trade or feel the practicals in your profession by volunteering in a hospital, law firm, crafts shops with artists or journalism. Interns are given the opportunity to have a feel of what goes on in their field of training.

* Volunteer Programme
Volunteers could either assist in an orphanage, teach English in a school, health work, HIV/AIDS or Sports to help develop other people. This project is usually from a month to 3 months. However, a group may decide to go in for mini-venture which can last 2 weeks.

Qualifications: Our programmes do not require qualifications except our health project which requires the hands of practicing students or practitioners.

Cost in US$: USD 800 for two weeks adventure

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: A typical volunteer at Volunteer Africa GH is resourceful and friendly and ready to learn new things and welcome new ideas.

Age Range: 18-45

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

Participants Travel to Ghana Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 2-5

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

Volunteer Africa GH's Mission Statement: Our mission is to create an environment that will bring a helping hand to the doorstep of the needy and to enhance a chosen career through volunteering and internship

Year Founded: 2006