volunteer work

Description

2. Working at school for mentally handicapped children

Location: Kumasi

Typical work:

Playing games with the children
Teach the children numerical
Help the kitchen with preparing food
Organize excursions with the children

3. Working in the children's ward at a hospital - run by the Seventh day Adventist Church

Location: Asaman (1 hour drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

Orderly work
Any work assigned by the hospital authorities

4. Working in the children's ward at St. Joseph Catholic Hospital

Location: Pramso (30 min drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

Orderly work
Any work assigned by the hospital authorities

5. Working at a school for the deaf

Location: Jamasi (45 minutes drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

Teach the children sign language
Play games / interact
Arrange excursions/road trips
Work as teaching assistant

6. Teaching at a Junior Secondary School (J.S.S.)

Location: Kumasi-area and Mampong (size of village based on volunteer's request)

Typical work:

Teaching English math and science
Organizing excursions/road trips
Playing games/interact
Teach the children European songs (example: In the jungle, awwwiimbaweee)

7. Working for the Light for Children-Ghana Project

Location: Kumasi
Note: Based on the volunteers experience and request we can arrange a combination of work with the NGO's project and one of the other external projects.

Typical work:

Weekly visits to the 'HIV positive children/children orphaned by AIDS' that are a part of the program
Work actively together with local volunteer in the NGO to determine how best each child can get assistance-from the organization
Write reports on the children's progress to their ?adopters' in Europe and US
Spend time in the afternoon to help the children with school studies
Join the children on their visits to the HIV clinic where they pick up their ART (Anti-retroviral therapy, it stops HIV from spreading in the body)
Participate in HIV/AIDS prevention meetings at schools and institutions
Work at one of the HIV clinics in Kumasi (filing, counting drugs, interacting etc)
Participate in different HIV/AIDS related committee/NGO meetings
Join local volunteers when they travel and visit different Support group meetings for 'people living with HIV/AIDS' (PLWHAs)


8. Internship programmes

Light for Children - Ghana designs internship programmes that are tailor-made for your individual goals. Fields to build from include:

? Radio, TV and news paper Journalism
? Nurses and Doctors
? Women and Youth empowerment
? Law
? HIV AIDS education
? Drumming and Dancing (African studies)
? Architectural
? Sports coaching
? Language and Cultural Studies
? Forest Conservation

Requirements: