Quick Facts
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Scenic valleys and coastal communities await your helping hands. Work alongside children, adults and elders on basic, but critically important service projects. Our host partners seek help with broad-based economic and educational development to. . .
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Ghana
Akrade, Ghana
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| Dates/Costs:
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10 Jan 2011
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1 Jan 2012:
$2,395
Flexible dates available. Duration:
1
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3
weeks
(participation cost details)
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| Focus
Areas:
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Children
Economic Development
Education
Health
Poverty
Gender & Equality
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UniversalGiving Partner
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Full Description
| Description
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| Scenic valleys and coastal communities await your helping hands. Work alongside children, adults and elders on basic, but critically important service projects. Our host partners seek help with broad-based economic and educational development to significantly improve local residents' quality of life.
Long-term community plans call for an expanded market, improved health care facilities, and increased school resources. Here's a place where individuals, groups and families can make a significant difference -- help children who struggle with much that we take for granted. Finish work on a health clinic, teach school subjects, or assist local nurses with outreach to young mothers.
No previous experience required. Great for families!
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Cost Details
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| Service Fee Explanation: These fees support the community's on-going development program as well as your meals, lodging, transportation to and from the work site, project expenses, administrative costs and the services of a trained team leader. The service program fee does not cover free-time expenses or your airfare or other travel to the host community. All fees, including airfare, are tax-deductible for U.S. tax-payers.
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| A Great Opportunity For... |
Teens
Seniors
Retirees
Groups
Professionals
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| Language Needed |
| English
(proficient)
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| Skills Needed/ Experience |
Virtually any native English speaker can assist with English classes. And if you have an area of expertise in science or math and you can explain concepts to elementary- and secondary-age students, then you can help as well.
Volunteers who can assist with physical labor in carpentry, landscaping, painting and masonry are always needed. But, you don't need professional experience!
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Location Information
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Volunteers are lodged in a very comfortable and safe local tourist-class hotel. Team members enjoy meals together at local restaurants. The local food is an important and enjoyable part of the cultural experience you will have in Ghana. Breakfast typically includes coffee, tea, eggs, bread and/or various types of porridge, e.g., hot oatmeal, rice or wheat cereal. Lunch and dinner will consist of soups, rice, beans, chicken, fish, yam and fried plantain. You will have the opportunity to try typical Ghanaian dishes such as kenkey (fermented corn meal) and fufu (mashed cassava and plantains). Palm oil is used in many recipes as is red pepper making many dishes rather spicy.
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About Global Volunteers
Global Volunteer was founded to help advance peace, racial reconciliation and mutual international understanding between peoples of diverse cultures through volunteer service on long-term community development programs.
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