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Volunteers for Development International currently offers programmes on education, cultural health and community development. These programmes are executed as major work camp, minor work camp and internship based initiatives. MAJOR WORKCAMP ¦ MINOR WORK CAMP ¦ INTERNSHIP ¦ EXPECTATIONS ¦ BENEFITS ¦ THE FUTURE ¦ APPLICATION & FEES MAJOR WORKCAMP PROGRAMME For this particular aspect, 25-40 volunteers from all over the world come together and live together in harmony. They spend 3 weeks on community development, one-week cultural programme, one week AIDS/health related education and one week in touring Ghana. This enables both foreign and local volunteers to share life experiences and then to interact with the beneficiary communities. This camp lasts between 3-6 weeks and it falls during the school vacation. MINOR WORK CAMP PROGRAMME This programme gives both young and old scholars the opportunity to serve in their various study areas. We have placement in your field and choice and you can polish up your life and future by accepting placement in any of the fields that are strategically planned to suit you. Some of the fields currently available include: Teaching (primary, junior high school and senior high school) health institutions and other departmental areas. The placement period varies from 1 month to 12 months. INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME Internship programmes ranging from 1 month to 12 months are in place for volunteers from all over the world. Volunteers have the opportunity of working under any field of their choice including: teaching, health institutions and other developmental organizations in Ghana. WORKCAMP EXPECTATIONS During major and minor work camps, volunteers stay together in simple housing structures in the beneficiary community. They do all things in common as one people regardless of colour, gender, social, religious, political and educational background. Normally, they spend 6-8 hours a day with the community members working on both skilled and unskilled labour, including digging, clearing bush, tree planting, mixing mortar or building. These activities are geared towards the building of schools, public places of convenience, hospitals, clinics, street drains, social centers and orphanages. Volunteers at each camp draw their own programme of activities, which they carry out after the normal working hours. Some of such activities are: drumming and dancing, HIV/AIDS educational campaigns, excursions, story telling and the learning of African/foreign cultures. It is expected that these camps build the spirit of voluntarism among the village folks so that in future they will be able to organize themselves to do something meaningful in their own villages and towns. SOME BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THE WORKCAMPS 1. You will get the chance of learning both local and foreign culture to understand the difference between various cultural lives. 2. It affords you the opportunity to make new friends and re-unite with old ones. 3. It prepares you to face the challenges of life and makes you a responsible person in a society. 4. The opportunity to travel throughout Ghana and other parts of the world through the volunteers cultural exchange programme. 5. One gets the happiness of helping the socially under privileged in solving their numerous social problems. 6. You get the opportunity to learn something very new in your life by sharing experiences with fellow volunteers from all over the world and the beneficiary community. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE In the coming years, we hope to launch the following projects: • Educational Project: During school vacation, teachers shall be sent to the remote communities to help in the teaching and learning processes as a way of improving pupils' performance. This will be done in consultation with the GES and other stakeholders in education. Educational materials shall also be provided to the needy schools as a way attracting trained teachers to accept posting to such schools. • Economic Development Project: Demonstrational Farms (nursery, snail and mushroom farms) and Skills Workshops (soap making, batik) will be established in order to enable the people in the village to engage in income generating activities. Additional income generating ideas that are in the planning phase are: • An arts and cultural center to enhance VFDI's cultural exchange program. • An internet café which will help foreign volunteers to communicate to their families and loved ones whiles in Ghana. • Tourism projects in the various districts of the country as a means of fostering relationships between volunteers and the communities which they visit. • Establishment of a viable scholarship scheme for brilliant but needy children and children of HIV/AIDS victims. HOW TO APPLY Fill out the registration form to volunteer or intern. PARTICIPATION FEES: The fees charged include: accommodation, feeding, programme activities and minor medical bills. Please, to register for any of these programmes do complete the on-line camp/internship registration form above and send the appropriate participation fee payable to: Volunteers for Development International to either of these 2 addresses: Kwamanman Rural Bank Mampong Branch OR Standard Chartered Bank You can also pay upon arrival. CANCELLATION POLICY: The same policy is applicable to internship programme. However, volunteers who come on internship programme automatically qualify for major work camp without any additional charges. If you have questions, please contact us. |