Be a Teaching Assistant / Childcare Volunteer
Highlights
- Plan, design and deliver a range of classroom activities and lessons.
- Gain experience supervising classrooms and mentoring students.
- Meet and live with participants from across the world while you immerse yourself in a West African community and learn about local cultures.
- Help under-resourced local schools to improve their educational environments and enrich their curriculums.
- Live with a local family and share stories about cultures and history with them.
- Plan, design and deliver a range of classroom activities and lessons.
- Gain experience supervising classrooms and mentoring students.
- Meet and live with participants from across the world while you immerse yourself in a West African community and learn about local cultures.
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About the program
Gain experience in the classroom as a teaching assistant volunteer, assisting students and local schools in the Ghanaian community to meet their educational objectives.
While most children in Ghana do attend school, the standard of education can be fairly low, and schools are often under-resourced and overcrowded. Through this program, volunteers will contribute towards developing these schools in a sustainable way by assisting in the classroom, ...
Typical day
Wake up in your host family’s house every morning, get dressed, and have breakfast in the kitchen area. Eat a plate of breads and spreads before grabbing your packed lunch and heading out the door. Jump into a tro-tro or shared taxi and make your way to the school. On your first day, OGVO staff ...
Free-time activities
During weekends Volunteers/Interns have the opportunity to visit all that Ghana has to offer. Weekend trips available include visits to Mole National Park in the Northern Region of Ghana. This National Park offers a great Safari-like experience and is one of the biggest Elephant Sanctuaries in ...
Requirements
What's Included
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Details on arrival
This program is available all year round, so volunteers or interns can arrive any day of the week or any month of the year with advance notice!
Program fees
Meet your organization
Our Generation Voluntary Organization
Non-profit - founded in 2004
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Frank
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