Community Projects in Ghana

Global Volunteers' unique philosophy of service ensures your work projects help advance the host community's current development vision and goals. Always serving at the invitation and under the direction of host community partners, each Global Volunteers team member works alongside local people to help deliver the 12 Essential Services to local people. Our long-term commitment to work in partnership on sustained community development projects enables you, in just a short time, to serve as an essential link in a chain of lasting community enhancements.

Our Ghanaian partners have requested assistance in several areas:
Education: teaching at elementary, secondary and vocational schools. Volunteers are needed to teach subjects including English, basic sciences and math and to assist at a community vocational school where women ages 18 to 25 learn catering, nutrition and home management. Education is considered to be the most effective strategy to combat poverty - long and short term. Your assistance has a tremendous impact on the individual kids, as well as their community and country.

Construction: building, renovating or painting community buildings. Volunteers who can do physical labor - carpentry, landscaping, painting and masonry can be a very useful resource. If you can wield a hammer, swab a paintbrush, mix cement or lay blocks, you will be of tremendous help.

Health, Nutrition, and Hygiene Education: The United Nations, through the World Health Organization, advises that public health education is one of the most important prerequisites to good health. The small rural clinics and local schools are centers for this information, so healthcare professionals can teach health, nutrition, hygiene, HIV AIDS prevention and malaria prevention at elementary and middle schools. Healthcare students can assist with some educational programs in addition to helping maintain clinic medical records and accompany clinic staff on some homecare and outreach.

Psychosocial Support: Throughout the villages and in the schools, you have the opportunity to engage local children in arts and crafts or sporting activities to encourage social interaction and development.