2013 at Maternal Health Support
Maternal Health Support
Highlights
- Volunteers gain insight into the daily struggles of maternal health workers due to the lack of personal and working apparatus
- Volunteers gain experience working in difficult situation for their future career
- Can be use for academic purposes or as an internship elective.
- Make life time medical friends and share ideas and best practices with
- Visit any of the 16 regions in Ghana on weekends to immerse yourself in the Ghanaian culture and history
- Volunteers gain insight into the daily struggles of maternal health workers due to the lack of personal and working apparatus
- Volunteers gain experience working in difficult situation for their future career
- Can be use for academic purposes or as an internship elective.
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About the program
Immerse yourself supporting the health and well being of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period
Maternal health is a very big challenge in Ghana especially in the rural and peri-urban centres of the country. This is due to the difficulty in accessing health facilities; which put women at a high risk of death with various disabilities resulting from pregnancy and childbirth complication. Our ...
Typical day
Volunteers working at the hospital have varied schedule, but maternal health volunteers work from 8am to 2pm. Volunteers who wish to extend their time can move to other departments to help after their schedule. A normal schedule is as follows:
- 7:00am Breakfast
- 7:30am walk or a ride to placement
- 8:00
Free-time activities
Volunteers have the weekend to explore the 16 regions of Ghana. Each region has its unique culture and tourist sites. Volunteers are advice to read more about Ghana's tourist sites to help them have a fair idea of where their interest will be.
We help volunteers to choose tourist sites and give ...
Requirements
What's Included
What's NOT included?
Details on arrival
Volunteers are free to arrive at any day of their choice but we advice volunteers arrive on Fridays or Saturdays, for them to have some rest and settle in before volunteer duties start on Monday (Volunteers are also allowed to determine when they want to start upon arrival). Volunteers can arrive at any time of the day but arriving in the evenings means volunteer will have to spend long time at the airport due to long queue because most flights arrive in the evening. Therefore volunteers can look for flights that arrives mid morning or early afternoon.
Our representative will pick up volunteer to the his /her host family's accommodation.
This program is all year round and volunteer can extend length of stay upon arrival.
Program fees
Meet your organization
SFLIG volunteers
Non-profit - founded in 2011
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Sally
About the project
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