Ghana: Orphanages & child care Volunteering

Orphanages Abroad Volunteering Work

Orphanage Home Program Overview

The Orphanage Volunteer program is focused on addressing love, care, and attention for individual orphans. Orphanages in Ghana are filled with children from needy homes and the streets, or in situations where one or both parents are no longer living. Unfortunately, most of these facilities are poorly resourced and under-staffed. Flexible, adaptable volunteers are desperately needed to help provide these children with basic needs.

A Day in the Life

Volunteers‘ duties depend both on the needs of the individual orphanage and on the skills and interests of the volunteers themselves.

Volunteers assist with daily activities such as:

• teaching
• counseling
• exchange of cultural views
• health and hygiene education
• mental and physiological support
• playing
• cooking

Volunteers may also assist in orphanage offices.

Requirements

None

Duration

Minimum Stay: 2 weeks
Maximum Stay: 6 months

Dates

Program available year-round

Location

Our partner supported orphanage homes in the following towns:

• Kpandu
• Sogakofe
• Tsito-Awudome
• Sokode and Hohoe

Accommodations

Typically, volunteers are accommodated at the orphanage home to which they are assigned. Depending on the orphanage and its resources, a volunteer may instead be placed with a host family.

What to Bring

Children’s clothing, shoes, books, pens, crayons, pencils, erasers, toys, or other play materials (footballs, handballs, volleyballs).

What this includes:

The $150 charged by Green Bug Adventures is only a down payment and booking fee.  The rest of the funds will need to be paid in cash when you arrive in Ghana for your volunteer placement with our partner who operates the trip.  To learn more about our partner click here.  The cost of the program not including the booking fees are below.

Volunteer Programs 2-4 weeks- $650

For each additional week after 4 weeks- $150

This pays for:

• Airport Pick Up: Upon arrival, our in-country coordinator and a staff member will be at the airport to pick you up. Please remember to send your flight information to us prior to travelling.
• First Night Bed and Breakfast: If your flight comes in later than 11:30 pm, you will spend the first night in Accra, the capital city of Ghana.
• A Gift from Our Partner: Volunteers will receive a souvenir upon arrival and departure.
• Transportation to Placement: You will be travelling with our in-country coordinator or a staff member by car, cab, tro-tro (mini-van) or bus to your destination. Our partner is responsible for one-way transportation to the project and volunteers are responsible for their personal and return travel. Costs required for travel to and from the host accommodations to the place of work are the responsibility of the volunteer.
• Accommodation: Volunteers will stay with a host family, within a rented house, or at a hostel. Volunteers will stay either in a single or shared room. Host families are carefully screened and selected based on our requirements. All families are middle-class and live in safe neighborhoods. Distances from accommodations to projects vary. Host families will typically provide three meals per day. Vegetarian diets or food allergies will be taken into account when placement is arranged.
• 24/7 In-country Support and Supervision: Field offices and staff members are everywhere at our project sites and our in-country coordinator will also be available for help when needed, including a 24-hour support team. We are committed to making sure all participating communities and volunteers benefit from the collaboration.
• Safety: Volunteer safety is a priority at Green Bug Adventures. We ensure our trips are safe and our in-country coordinator will provide whatever support you may need at any step along the way.
• Administrative Costs: Our partners staff work every day to care for you the volunteers: Emails are answered; phone calls are taken; coordination occurs between projects; and most importantly, volunteers are placed within areas of their interest in villages. Although most of our staff work on a volunteer basis, there are always costs to any organization. We try hard to keep these administration costs to a minimum so that your money can be used most effectively.

 

Program Exclusions—THESE ARE THINGS YOU WILL NEED TO PAY FOR

The following associated costs are not included in the program fees and are the responsibility of the volunteer:

• flight
• airport taxis
• visas (unless you choose the visa service option below)
• immunizations
• personal expenses
• passport
• travel insurance
• entrance fees
• in-country travel expenses

 

Visa Services:

Please read about our visa services here, before choosing one of the options below.

Before Buying:

Remember that by clicking the buy button you are just making a down payment and booking, you will still need to pay the remainder of the program costs detailed above.

Also please read our policies, you will be required to sign them before traveling.

Please read our policies and check what your trip does and does not include. Policies and Procedures

Order Ghana Orphanages and child care Volunteering

• Program without Visa Service @ $150.00
• Program with Single Entry Visa Service @ $250.00
• Program with Multiple Entry Visa Service @ $300.00

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