Service Work to Empower the Rural People of Ghana
Location: Ghana: Accra, Rural Areas
Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
Program Duration: 3-6 months (includes high school academic semester abroad), 7-12 months (includes high school academic year abroad)
Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education
11640 Hwy. 128 Calistoga, CA 94515 United States
Call Us
Phone: 707-431-7265
Fax: 707-431-8479
Description
Opportunities to volunteer with an organization that focuses on solving rural problems in Ghana. Volunteers teach adult literacy classes and school children, work to empower women in rural communities, stimulate small business activities, initiate environmental awareness programs, provide support for abused women and children integrate the disabled into the community and provide occupational therapy.
Highlights
This opportunity is part of the LEAPYEAR program - check out our website for more details!
Intern Types
- Admin (Health Services)
- Agricultural Sciences
- Anthropology
- Botany
- Culinary Arts / Cooking
- Counseling
- Creative Writing
- Criminal Justice
- Development
- Ecology
- Economics
- Education
- English as a Second Language
- Environmental Management
- Environmental Studies
- Family and Home Studies
- Field-Study
- Finance
- Food Science and Nutrition
- Forestry
- Fourth World Studies
- Health Sciences
- Horticulture
- Human Resources
- Human Rights
- Humanities
- Medicine
- Music
- Occupational, Envir. Health
- Social Sciences
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Sustainable Development
- Tourism
- Web Design
- Women's Studies
Languages
- English
Cost in US$:
Credit Available
yes
Volunteer Types
- Adult Education
- AIDS
- Anthropology
- Arts
- Building Maintenance
- Building/construction Projects
- Childcare/children
- Clerical And Office Work
- Community Centers
- Community Development
- Community Health
- Community Organizing
- Cooking
- Counseling
- Culture
- Disability Issues
- Economic Development
- Education
- Elderly
- Energy
- English Teaching
- Environment
- Family Planning
- Fixing Fences
- Food
- Gardening
- Gender Issues
- Global Warming
- Grassroots Organization
- Handicapped
- Health
- Health Care
- Health Education
- Home Visit
- Homelessness
- Hospital
- Housing
- Human Rights
- Income-generation
- Indigenous Issues
- Medicine
- Micro-enterprise
- Microcredit
- Minority Groups
- Music
- Office Work
- Parks
- Planting
- Playgrounds
- Popular Education
- Primary Education
- Public Education
- Recreation
- Reforestation
- Sanitation
- Self Help
- Seniors
- Small Business Development
- Social Services, Social Work
- Teaching
- Tutor
- Volunteering
- Water
- Women
- Youth
- Youth Development
This Program is open to
Worldwide Participant. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangements
- Group living
- Home-stays
Participants Travel to Ghana
Independently or in Groups
Application Process Involves
- In-Person Interview Required
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time is
1 weekPost Services Include
- Exit Debriefing Abroad
- Job and Internship Network
- Re-Entry Debriefing at Home
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education's Mission Statement
Leapnow's primary purpose is nothing less than transformation and positive change on the planet. We aspire to keep our work on the cutting edge of human evolution. We feel that we can have the most positive impact on the world by working in the area of education- which ideally is all about transforming and expanding the consciousness of our students. Cultural immersion, study and work abroad are our main vehicles for learning about one's self and the world.
Year Founded
1993
