Location:

Kumasi, Ghana

Program Type:

Study Abroad

Degree Level:

Undergraduate

Term:

Academic Year, Fall Semester, Rolling Starts, Spring Break, Spring Semester, Summer, Winter Semester, Year Round

Program Overview

Program Description:

No speacial qualification needed but people with kind heart for children are required Role of Volunteer These children's age ranges between 3 months and 12 years respectively. In this project volunteers would be expected to: • Teach Basic English and Math’s • Teach them how to wash their face and brush their teeth • Guide them to learn their lessons • Serve their food or sit beside them while eating so that they may feel the societal environment • Help them in preparing to go to school, check their uniforms, shoes, neatness and cleanliness of the kids. • Volunteers would also help the children to draw pictures as well as playing games with them. • Volunteers would also help with the cooking of the orphan’s food and engaged in various related activities requested by project staffs. •Develop creative programs such as dance, arts, music, etc. • Organize physical and sports activities There are no special qualifications for Orphanage project in Ghana but people with kind heart for children, compassion and love for the children are required for this placement. R.V.O-GHANA manages room/food for volunteer. Volunteers live with host families and we manage a separate room and local meals three times a day. Volunteer will also have regular visitation to project site and host family, 24hrs every week access to our office in Ghana and mobile number of our coordinators. Our staffs also visit volunteers every week as part of the program.

R.V.O-Ghana provides the opportunity for volunteers from worldwide to volunteer in the orphanage homes by teaching and doing other related activities to vulnerable children. This R.V.O-Ghana volunteer placement is well organize in order to create new life into these unfortunate and neglected Children by sharing fun, love and education to them. This project includes orphanage and day care center for children who live at the orphanage until they are adopted by families that can well take care of them. Lots of orphanages in Ghana are poorly managed, limited workers, and faces lots of problems to run the centre and for that matter the centre needs volunteers to help with the day-to-day activities of the centre with works like cleaning, cooking and serving food to the children. Volunteers are also required to provide some basic English education to the children, and organize physical and sports lessons

Setting Description:

Role of Volunteer These children's age ranges between 3 months and 12 years respectively. In this project volunteers would be expected to: • Teach Basic English and Math’s • Teach them how to wash their face and brush their teeth • Guide them to learn their lessons • Serve their food or sit beside them while eating so that they may feel the societal environment • Help them in preparing to go to school, check their uniforms, shoes, neatness and cleanliness of the kids. • Volunteers would also help the children to draw pictures as well as playing games with them. • Volunteers would also help with the cooking of the orphan’s food and engaged in various related activities requested by project staffs. •Develop creative programs such as dance, arts, music, etc. • Organize physical and sports activities There are no special qualifications for Orphanage project in Ghana but people with kind heart for children, compassion and love for the children are required for this placement. R.V.O-GHANA

Cost:

ength of stay Fee payable 2 weeks $400 USD 3 weeks $450 USD 4 weeks (1 month) $600 USD 5 weeks $650 USD 6 weeks $750 USD 7 weeks $850 USD 8 weeks (2 months) $950 USD 10 weeks $1'000 USD 12 weeks (3 months) $1'3000 USD