Community Development Project
Location: Ghana: Rural Areas
Program Duration: 2-4 weeks, 1-2 weeks, 3-6 months (includes high school academic semester abroad), 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Description
Voluntary Aid and Cultural Integrations objective is to promote community development in Ghana while concurrently promoting responsible and meaningful cultural integration. VACI adopts a focused and result-oriented approach to in carrying out its stated goals. To this end, VACI's work is focused on four (4) administrative districts in the South Eastern part of Ghana. This approach ensures continuity of volunteer effort and developmental support for communities that really need it.
The vision of Voluntary Aid and Cultural Integration is to become a leading partner in promoting socio-economic development in the lives of the vulnerable and also building global cultural integration among all races for a peaceful world.
Based in the Volta Region in the southern part of Ghana, founded in the year 2000, the VACI team works with local participants for the development of their communities. They operate in five communities in two districts (Akatsi and Ketu south and Ketu north Districts) of the Volta region.
One of the organizations major goals is to promote the engagement of Ghanaian youth in the development of their own country. For example, VACI Counselling Project is a unit that engages volunteers in providing career and educational counselling for youth in the Volta Region. Through projects staffed by motivated volunteers, VACI also hopes to educate Ghanaian society on high-impact issues such as drug abuse, health and sexual education, etc.
Areas of operation:
1. Educational campaigns and educational opportunities
2. HIV/AIDS awareness
3. Fighting Drug Abuse
4. Poverty reduction through building sustainable practices for food security.
5. Serving as an advocate to stop Child Trafficking.
The organization hopes to work towards building schools to accommodate children in deprived areas of Southern Volta. It is part of their vision that such schools become modern schools for the advancement of community based development, and a complement to the government of Ghana's effort at making education a fundamental subject of grassroots development. VACI also works to sponsor the education of underprivileged children in the Volta region while helping them to acquire employable skills. As a component part of our project on rural education, computer study centres will be established soon by the organization in one of these communities to serve the information technology needs of the children living in these communities. VACI is concerned with parent education as a means of addressing youth illiteracy.
VACI has a number of developmental projects to be established that need assistance from motivated foreign volunteers. These projects are a part of the organization's goals of community-based development in the Volta region and are the building-blocks of a larger societal vision of rural development in Ghana.
Highlights
You will get the opportunity to be active in a community and its' development as well as taking part in organised events such as visiting different communities, beach outings as well as sightseeing various parts of Ghana.
1. To assist deprived communities through capacity building
2. To create awareness and experience sharing between Ghanaians and people from abroad (Intercultural Exchange)
3. To promote the act of volunteerism for all
4. To sponsor the education of underprivileged children in the Volta region while concurrently helping them to acquire employable skills
5. To educate the youth on the concept of peace for development to encourage cooperation between and among people of Ghana's numerous ethnic groups
6. To educate the society and youth about the dangers of the HIV/AIDS and its negative effects on development
7. To fight drug abuse among the youth in the region
8. To promote general health education
Qualifications
The general aim is for volunteers to share their knowledge, show leadership, social responsibility and ethics.
Attributes required:
- Intellectual maturity
- Strong desire and ability to make a positive difference in the lives of others - some coaching and teaching experience is required
- Punctuality
- Respect for the culture, people and environment you find yourself in
- Positive attitude and flexibility in dealing with everyday life where things may not always be easy
- Commitment
Background in community and youth development.
Languages
- English
Cost in US$:
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Credit Available
no
Volunteer Types
- Education
- Teaching
- Academic Reinforcement
- Health
- Health Care
- Health Education
- Sports
- Athletics
This Program is open to
Worldwide Participant.
Participants Travel to Ghana
Independently or in Groups
Application Process Involves
- Letters of Reference
- Online Application plus Application Assessment
- Resume
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time is
2 daysIkando's Mission Statement
Ikando looks to support local community organisations through the placement of international volunteers. We seek to offer volunteers affordable, quality and skill specific placements with organisations that require their help. We believe our volunteers can be catalysts for change within these organisations. Ikando aims to communicate through its volunteers the positive story coming out of Africa.
Year Founded
2004
