Volunteer Placement Programs »
VACI currently offers opportunities for international volunteers in the areas of VOLUNTEER WORK PLACEMENT and EDUCATION & RESEARCH. Volunteers are at liberty to combine programs from these two areas. Find the details of our program costs here.
VOLUNTEER WORK PLACEMENT
Besides allowing VACI participants to work on our existing project ideas or on projects of their own proposal, VACI also places participants in already existing volunteer positions through our partnerships with local schools, hospitals, libraries, and NGOs. This is a good volunteer option for those participants who do not have enough time and energy to commit to one of the VACI proposed long-term projects.
Participants don’t need to have earlier work experience or education in a specific field but if noted, previous knowledge or interest will be used as a means of placement. This will widen the positive experience of Ghana for the volunteer and it will also give the working places a more motivated volunteer. Currently, VACI offers work placement in the following areas:
Education
Participants can teach in the various schools in Denu, Tokor, Aflao, Akatsi, Dzodze, and Abor. Participants can teach in Nursery (Children between 1-5 years), Primary (Children with the ages 6-15) and Secondary school (Children with ages 16-19 years). Subjects that the participants can teach include mathematics, English, and computer science (soft and hardware), technical skills, social science, accounting, business, sports and physical education, management, biology, chemistry, physics and other subjects. For teaching, participants should be prepared to stay in a rural area or village for a period of at least 2 weeks to 1 month.
Participants can also work at the library in Denu, Aflao, Tokor, Akatsi, Abor, depending on preference. Here, Participants spend most of their time helping children to learn how to read or teaching them poems and riddles.
Counselling / Social Work
VACI-Ghana counselling is an integral proposed project with the intention of supporting at-risk youth and targeting the ever-increasing youth unemployment rate, one of the biggest problems in Ghana today.VACI-Ghana counselling project provides supporting adults to mentor and counsel youth in their lives and future careers. Counsellors will help youth to discover and build upon their strengths. This will enable them to gain valuable and needed skills for future employment. Volunteers with experience in counselling, mentoring, or working closely with children, adolescents and young adults are preferred. VACI counsellors will be located in Denu, at the VACI-Ghana office. Health Services
Participants can work in the hospitals and clinics in and around Denu as assisting nurses, helping in the laboratory and as doctors (for participants with degree). Special preferences are given to doctor or nurse participants, who could be used as replacement nurses or doctors.
Participants can also render their services in the following areas through our NGO partnerships:
- Sports Support
- Orphanages
- Community development projects
- HIV/ AIDS Projects
Find the fees for our Volunteer Work Placement programs here.
EDUCATION & RESEARCH
VACI offers you the opportunity dabble in the rich local culture and gain direct and first-hand insight into local issues and problems through its Education and Research programs.
Education
Education programs are focused on traditional drumming and dance – an integral aspect of Ghanaian culture. The education program is implemented through partnership with the African Heritage Dance Ensemble. Participants are taught how to use the various instruments and to perform all dances. The dances to be learned include: Agbadza, Kpanlogo, Borborbor, Atsiagbeko, Gota, Kpatsa, and others.
Research Work
VACI-Ghana is open to work with people of all interests and ideas. We think that Ghana, as a third-world developing country presents numerous opportunities for research into social and developmental issues. Get more involved in local issues and gain heightened understanding as you ask questions and investigate your curiosities. Research findings are instrumental in formulating VACI projects. In order to help in this work we have established contacts with study objects and university professors. This is a flexible program in which the participants can extend their stay if so desired. If you are interested in doing research work in Ghana please do not hesitate to contact your country coordinator or Director. If you come from a country with no country coordinator, contact the VACI Director in Ghana. The following are the research work areas:
Social Aspect:
- Child Abuse/ Slavery in the Volta Region
- Child Trafficking in the Volta Region
- Child Prostitution in the Volta region
- The need for Child Education in the Volta Region
- Case Studies on effects of Single Parenting, Teenage Parenting and divorce in the Volta Region
Cultural Aspect:
- Ewe Culture and its Dynamics
- Traditional Food Preparation in the Volta Region
- Psychological/ Social/ Economic effects and in infuences of the Troski System on woman in the Volta Region; A Case Study
Find the fees for our Education & Research programs here.
VACI-GHANA SPONSOR A CHILD PROGRAM
VACI-Ghana hopes to help underprivileged children by financing their education and other needs. This is impossible without adequate funding; thus, we have introduced the Vaci-Ghana "Sponsor a Child" Program.
In Ghana, a lot of children are deprived and do not have the chance to go to school. A lot of families have many children and can't afford to feed, clothe, and put them all in school. This affects a lot of Ghanaian children. Most often, boys are favored leaving girls to performing household chores, working as child slaves, etc.
VACI-Ghana has since started locating some of these children from the surrounding communities (mostly at Denu and nearby settlements) who need financial support for school fees, books, school uniforms and other personal effects. VACI-Ghana currently has in its records, more than 30 pupils and students that could use some financial help for education.
VACI-Ghana is calling out to philanthropists, individuals, well wishers and organizations to collaborate with the VACI-Ghana sponsor a child program to help in supporting these kids to ensure that they can go to school or into some vocation to learn to help develop themselves and Ghana in the future.
Please Note: Sponsors will get detailed reports and personal contact with the children or families they sponsor. If you are interested in supporting the VACI-Ghana sponsor a child program, Contact us:
VACI-Ghana,
+ 233 (0) 302 938872
+ 233 (0) 244 208 035
+ 233 (0) 277 81 9621
Richard K. Ahutsi, info@vacighana.net
