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Childcare Development
ORGANIZATION: Solutions for Life Initiative Ghana
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
Our childcare program is a fun rewarding experience since volunteers are meet every day with infectious smiles from vulnerable children who are determined to make it in life with little or no resources. This is also a very challenging experience since volunteers work with various kinds of children from different backgrounds. These children most often are orphans, children from broken homes, street children and children abandoned by family due to certain illness or disability.
Volunteers assist other workers to take care of the day to day needs and activities of these children, which include, helping to prepare them for school, taking and accompanying kids to school, helping with homework teaching and helping them to know basic hygiene to keep them healthy and strong . Volunteers also play with kids teaching them various entertaining activities like singing dancing, reading them, telling stories about their countries etc.
Volunteers either stay at the project center(base of availability of rooms) or with a host family or in a volunteer house. Where they giving 3meals and 24/7 in-country support.
More opportunities with Solutions for Life Initiative Ghana
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Solutions for Life Initiative Ghana
Location:
Box MD 2504, Madina, Accra, Greater Accra 2, GH
Mission Statement
Our mission is to connect person and group with the heart to give back to society to the very people, communities and projects that needs their support where volunteers are work directly with the people to change lives whilst the volunteers also see the results of their love, resources and commitment.
Description
We are a grassroot organization that works directly with the very people whose lives needs to be impacted. We work directly with orphans in orphanage homes and schools, single mothers, rural villages with no proper health services, under resource educational centers and rural communities with much focus on girls and teenage mothers. Through our volunteer and internship placement we have been able to enroll some orphan girls in the tertiary and some other girls in the senior high school whilst we also provide feeding support for others.
Our focus as an organization for 2019 and beyond is to help reduce girls absenteeism during that time of the month due to the lack of sanitary towels and other proper hygienic materials. The recent UNICEF report shows that girls from difficult backgrounds like orphans, rural girls etc miss 5days of school every month because they can't afford sanitary towels.
As an organization we have taken it upon our self to help fight this by providing sanitary towels every quarter to selected orphanage homes, schools and rural communities to keep girls in school and build up their confidence through support from our volunteer and internship program. Through this initiative we are seeing progress in the academic performance of most of our selected girls.
As we give volunteers a conducive atmosphere to volunteer we are also able to gather some funds from volunteer placement to help us achieve our goal.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Box MD 2504MadinaAccra, Greater Accra Ghana
DATE POSTED
June 17, 2019
SKILLS
- Teaching / Instruction
- Child Care
- Child Development
- Reading / Writing
- Special Needs
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- Orientation or Training
- Volunteers work from Monday to Friday with flexibility excluding public holidays From 8:am to 16:00pm with an hour break. Volunteers have weekends to explore the different tourist attractions of the country.
- Volunteers must be able to speak English. Volunteers must be passionate, accommodating and must be able to adjust since there are lot of "cultural shock" due to the nature and background of the children and the society