Teaching in Ghana
Placement number: 0071
Location: Ghana
Preferred
Languages: English
Date: All Year
Minimum Period : 1
month
Country Information
We
are a non-government organization based in Ghana.
It is a membership based and a grass -roots organization dedicated to promoting
sustainability in development. The organization links up with natives working in
different areas. The organization is funded by the members and some past
participants since it's inception in 1998. Our aims is to provide
education for street children, not only in the usual school subject, but also in
any skills they might need in order to start living self sufficiently. We are
therefore fighting to help alleviate poverty, hunger, illiteracy, Malnutrition
and drug abuse, unemployment,
Our effort is to move the planet of
poverty positively to sustainability in development in the field of
agro-forestry, environmental conservation, cultural exchange and international
solidarity friendship and peace through volunteer work. We offer socio-economic
development through volunteer work programs mostly in partnership with other
Role of Volunteer
We invite
and place volunteers from different parts of the world participating in our
programs in
Our projects
mainly evolve around educating children. Here are details of present
projects:
Teaching Street Children In Osu alone there are
currently more than 300 street children who cannot afford to attend school. This
means that the area suffers greatly from illiteracy and its associated
problems. There has therefore been established a school in this area to
provide free basic education for these children. You would be working
alongside local volunteer teachers with children from kindergarten to junior
secondary school level. The school currently has approximately 150 children who
are taught in basic subjects such as Maths, English and Science. With more
children arriving for classes every day, the school is in constant need of
volunteers to teach, help control the class and to organize recreational
activities. It is also possible to arrange excursions with the children to some
of the sites near to Accra, such as the Aburi
Botanical Gardens. It is also likely that during
the daytime you will teach a few children privately, these are likely to be
slightly older children but those who have not received any education so do not
posses the basic skills of reading and writing.
Vocational Training
As
with any country in the world, academic subjects are not for everybody, we are
therefore working to offer vocational skills to some of the youth in order to
provide them with the opportunity for a career and a future.
You would work with
local skilled craftsmen to teach children technical skills, providing them with
a career. We currently have projects teaching carpentry and masonry in the
Western Region and plumbing, batik and shoe making in
Fee is US$700 . This includes food,
accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period of four ( 4 ) weeks.
Health Care
We offer placements in
different hospitals in both urban and rural areas. Many hospitals in
Medical students, doctors and nurses can work alongside local nurses, midwives and medical and orthopedic doctors whilst those without a medical background can assist with the running of the hospital and other needs such as website design. Working days will vary depending on the hospital and the kind of work you are undertaking.
Fee is US$700 . This includes food,
accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period of four ( 4 ) weeks.
HIV/AIDS Awareness
Many of the sufferers
live in rural areas without frequent access to medical care, whilst others
cannot afford the medication they need. The greatest weapon we have to combat
the spread of this virus is education. It is therefore important to teach people
to understand the disease and how they can best protect themselves from
infection.
This placement can be
undertaken in both urban and rural areas. You will work with the Ghana Aids
Commission and the Ministry of Health to teach awareness and prevention of
HIV/AIDS in local communities, villages and schools.
It is also possible to
work with HIV/AIDS patients at
Fee is US$700 . This includes food,
accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period of four ( 4 ) weeks.
Water
Treatment
Drinking unclean water is one of the commonest causes of illness in rural areas, it is therefore important not only to help provide sources of safe clean water but also to educate the people on why this is necessary.
Working in rural areas
to educate villages on the need to drink safe water and how they can treat the
water from rivers and streams in order to make it suitable for drinking and
cooking.
Fee is US$700 . This includes food, accommodation and
transport to the project areas for a period of four ( 4 )weeks.
Sanitation
Living in unclean
surroundings is another common cause for illness, however in many areas in
Ghana there are problems of
rubbish on the streets. This can cause the open gutters to become blocked
preventing the unclean water from draining away, this results in pools of
stagnant water, the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes leading to the spread
of malaria.
This project would run
alongside your primary placement. You will work alongside members of the local
community to clear rubbish from the streets and gutters in order to create a
safer and healthier environment. The clean-up exercise takes place at the
weekend once a fortnight.
Fee is US$700 . This
includes food, accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period
offour ( 4 )weeks.
Other Placements
If you have any other skills relating to healthcare that are not covered by the placements above, then please contact us and we will try our best to find a placement to suit your skills. For example several past volunteers have worked in distributing medication to rural villages where no healthcare is available.
Community Development Work
Orphanage In Ghana
Many children end up
in orphanages for several reasons. Often when both parents die, the remaining
family members are not able to afford to take care of the children. In other
instances after giving birth if the parents cannot afford to pay the hospital
bill, they will leave before this is necessary, abandoning the child. Other
children will have been left to die by their mothers, on the street or in
rubbish dumps, but having been found in time have been brought to hospital and,
if they survive, to the orphanage.
Working with one of
our partner orphanages in either a rural or urban area. You will work to take
care of the children’s needs such as preparing food, playing with them, bathing
them and helping to take them to school and complete their homework. You can
either choose to work in a small orphanage with around 15 children or in one of
the larger orphanages where there may be up to 150
children.
Fee is US$650 . This includes food, accommodation and transport to the project
areas for a period of four (4) weeks.
Building Projects
Working in rural communities and assisting with manual labour to help the
development of the village by building schools, information centers, gutters and
roads. As well as new buildings you will also help to improve the standard of
the existing buildings.
Fee is US$650 . This includes food, accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period of four (4) weeks.
Beach Lifeguard
La Pleasure Beach Accra, is popular with
tourists and locals, at weekends it attracts around two thousand visitors whilst
on public holidays this number can exceed seven thousand. You would be working
along side a team of local lifeguards to ensure the safety of the visitors in
the sea, which can be rough and dangerous. Although the local lifeguards do an
excellent job they have received no formal training, you would therefore also be
able to assist with CPR and other first aid training as well as helping with
their English and communication skills.
Fee is
US$650 . This includes food, accommodation and transport to the project areas for
a period of four (4) weeks.
Environmental Placements
Agro Forestry project
Working with community
members in Pepepsu, Northern Volta Region. The chief of the area has around 150
hectares of land that is in need of maintenance and development, in a way that
will enable the sustainability of the land and the forest areas on it. At the
current time there is a wide variety of work in which volunteers will be able to
participate, these include tree planting, pruning and weeding, clearing the land
under the trees and thinning some forest area. There is also a current license
to bring animals into the forest area to create a forest reserve and eco-tourist
attraction, however before this can begin it will be necessary to build secure
fencing around the area, a project which is currently in need of assistance. For
those who wish to combine the agro-forestry work with working with children
there are opportunities to work in the local school, which despite being
registered with the government is still in need of books, equipment and
teachers. Volunteers will be living in a rural village with a local family, with
the nearest town with restaurants and shops etc a short taxi ride
away.
Fee is US$850 .
This includes food, accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period
of four (4) weeks.
Land conservation project
In Asikasu district and other nearby
districts at the Eastern Region of Ghana ,the districts suffers from erosion and
other related problems. Many houses eventually becomes weak and hanging when
erosion occurs. This can lead to disaster. Another factor is storm. Roofs of
houses are ripped off when storm occurs.
The main work being done by
the people of the district is crop farming. Most of these farmers are larking of
the techniques by which soil can be process for fertility. Prime Care Network is
currently working with the help from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and
the members of the districts to help solve these problems and for addressing the
farmers on sustainable organic agriculture. Volunteers are placed in some of
these fields working together with officers and the local people in the
communities. We welcome any special skills from volunteers. The main work being
done by volunteers are erosion control. by identifying the kinds of erosions
that occurs in the districts such as splash or raindrop erosion, sheet erosion,
rill erosion and gully erosion, and the method of checking soil erosion such as
planting cover crops, planting trees to serve as shelter belts or wind breaks,
avoiding over grazing of land caused by farm animals, practicing contour
ploughing and mulching etc. Revitalization of soils and raise up nurseries for
the community (planting of fruits) for the benefit of the community.
There is no electricity in some parts of the
district. However currently a project is being conducted to install electricity
to the affected areas.
In some places volunteer will manage with a bucket of water where there is no
shower. Volunteer will manage with a pit (toilet) where there is no flush toilet.
Fee is US$800. This includes food, accommodation and transport
to the project sites for a period of four (4) weeks.
At Risk Teen /Youth Program
In Ghana many teen/ youth faces a
major crisis such as violence in schools, deteriorating family structure,
substance abuse, alarming media images, and gang activities, are sexually
promiscuous and attempt suicide. Many of these At Risk Teen/ Youth have run away or are living
on the streets.
In Accra central from tudu lorry station, makola market,
train station up to Usher fort and James town (Bukom) communities including
Ashanti region especially at the Kejetia market in Kumasi and other small
markets including the beaches and backyard Conner’s are the places where many of
these children can be found. They post more challenging problem, and many have
already been socialized into deviant lifestyle.
Due to the challenges and struggles
these children facing very day, Prime Care Network is currently working with
local people and volunteers from around the world meeting up with these children
wherever in the country to make them feel hopeful and to make them believe that
the future have possibilities for them, they can attain their goals and there
other people who will support them so they can better their lives. We travel to
many parts of the country ,going to schools, houses, villages ,chief palaces,
community centers etc to educate people about the causes ,signs, and how to prevent At-Risk Teen/Youth with focus
on;
* Teen/ Youth
violence
* Teen/Youth drug
abuse
* ODD
* ADD
* ADHD
* Bulimia
* Teen/Youth
Depression
* Peer
pressure
* Teen/Youth
suicide.
Volunteers stay in different regions
in
Fee is US$900. This includes food,
accommodation and transport to the project areas for a period of four (4) weeks.
Volunteer stories
Find out what our past volunteers thought of this placement!
Alexandria David, May 2006 - July
2006
"I feel that I really got to experience Ghana on
a more personal level. I only hope that others will
have the chance to visit this beautiful country"
Cost
See above under each project.
Travel
Fly to Accra International Airport where prior arranged transportation will be provided.
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