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The
Summer Volunteer program in Ghana from Volunteering
Solutions starts with an orientation and dinner. It covers
informative session on the needs of local communities,
language, currency, and how to be safe and streetwise in
Ghana. As a part of the program, you will have the
opportunity to see the highest mountain in Ghana, visit to
the Monkey Sanctuary, and visit the biggest water fall in
West Africa. Also visit to Ghanaian markets among others.
Program Details & Itinerary
Day 1
- July 3rd (Thursday) 2008 - Orientation and Welcome
dinner for the volunteers with local partners.
Arrival
will be at Kotoka International Airport, Accra. You will
be met by Volunteering Solutions Program Partners in
Ghana. You will then be transferred to your host for some
rest. You will have opportunity to email or call friends
and relatives to let them know you have arrived safely.
Depending on the time of arrival, volunteers will spend
the night in a gust house and then the next day will leave
to the project location.
Day 2,
4th July (Friday) - Culture Program & Orientation
with language.
Volunteering Solutions Program Partners will give you
important information about many things including safety,
malaria, Ghana food, shopping, clothing, cultural
restrictions, money etc. Orientation Manuals will be
distributed and a review of other material such as maps
etc done. Information and profiles of the home-stay hosts
will be introduced in this meeting.
In
addition, you will be introduced to the profile of local
communities where you will work. Issues such as
eradication of poverty, combating HIV/AIDS, skills
deficiency, business and economic development will be
discussed.
You will
also be introduced to basic local Ghanaian phrases.
Day 3,
5th July (Saturday) – Culture program visit to the
Highest Mountain in Ghana with stop over at the Monkey
Sanctuary.
After
breakfast, volunteers will be taken on a tour to the
highest mountain in Ghana and making a stop over at one of
the historic monkey sanctuaries. Tafi Atome, a small
village with about 850 inhabitants, surrounded by an
indigenous tropical forest with very high floral
concentration. The forest is home to about 300 of the
endangered True Mona Monkeys. From the time when the
ancestors arrived about 200 years ago, they have protected
the monkeys which they believed to be messengers to the
gods. In the late 1980s, however, the villagers lost their
reverence for the animals due to an erosion of traditional
beliefs by Christianity. In order to prove that they no
longer feared the monkeys, they started to destroy the
forest in search for firewood and farmland, and even
killed many of the animals.
Day 4,
6th July (Sunday) – Members of the traditional
community
In the
Morning volunteers will visit the local community to see
how religion is been practiced. There will be visit to
churches in the community as well.
There
will be an interaction with the community members and the
volunteers.
During
the evening the volunteers will be learning sessions with
regards to the social activities in the village. These
include drumming, cooking and language lessons. In the
evenings, the villagers offer an entertainment programme
for the guests to watch and participate. Among others,
there are options which include drumming and dancing with
the whole village, or listening to a storyteller who
narrates old animal fables around a bonfire.
Day 5
– 7th July- 3 weeks volunteering at summer Site
On day 5,
volunteers will be taken to the project site – . You will
be met and greeted local community members both skilled
and unskilled. You will receive some orientation as well
as details about the building project.
Volunteers Duties at the site include:
Volunteers will be involve in doing both skilled and
unskilled work such as digging, mixing sand and cement,
carrying rocks, sand and bricks, fetching water, and
painting the school buildings. They will be led and work
together with local skilled people who will be providing
free labour for the improvement of their communities. The
volunteers will be working in hand with the local
community members.
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Teaching the school going children and helping them to
do their homework after school.
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Keeping
the children busy and organizing educational and
recreational activities for them (games, art, music,
etc.)
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Helping
with and monitoring the cleanliness of the children.
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Teaching the children common courtesies, moral education
etc.
Last 2
days – Visit to the Biggest water fall in Ghana &
farewell dinner.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to visit the Biggest
water fall in Ghana Volunteers will also be shown
market and other places where they can purchase souvenirs
and other special gifts. Wli is by far the most popular
tourist attraction in eastern Ghana. Wli Fall is the
highest waterfall in West Africa, though specifications of
its real height vary considerably with estimates ranging
from 20m to as much as 400m. The Fall actually consists of
two separate waterfalls, one easily accessible Lower Fall
and a more difficult to reach Upper Fall.
Wli
Falls is located in the Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary which
covers an area of 35 km2. To reach the waterfall, visitors
walk on a footpath through a thick, semi-deciduous forest,
fording two rivers a total of nine times. 220 bird species
and 400 butterfly species as well some monkeys and
antelopes reportedly inhabit the Sanctuary. Some trees
around the footpath have been marked with intention of
creating a nature education trail. At the waterfall,
thousands of straw-coloured fruit bats nest on the
adjacent cliffs. At the foot of the waterfall, there is
large pool that invites visitors to swim in.
Program Fee
For the program of 4 weeks $1550 per person
(After 4 weeks of program duration for
extra per week for volunteering only $195 per week)
The cost
includes:
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Meeting and pickup at the airport.
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All transfers with private or public
transport for:
a)
Introductory week
b) Local sightseeing programs
c) All excursions included in the programs
d) Local transport to project premises
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Donations to support project working on
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Accommodation provided on sharing basis
during the program.
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All meals - during the introductory week
and working.
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Filtered water - during the introductory
week and working. All materials such as colored pencils,
paper, sports equipment etc that are needed for the
various activities throughout the program.
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Information for independent excursions
during the weekends
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Registration per Volunteer
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