Your action matters (YAM)
This is is a volunteering project designed by a group of concerned individuals who after their experience in the volunteer field with the rural folks in Ghana decided to give the same opportunity to others who want to dedicate some of their time to effect positive social change in the Ghanaian rural communities.
Abc4all organises volunteering opportunities both locally and internationally.Participants are posted to various places to offer their humanitarian services.
What is Volunteering?
Volunteering is to choose to act in recognition of a need, with an attitude of social responsibility and without concern for monetary profit, going beyond one's basic obligations.
Who is a Volunteer?
Someone who contributes time, effort and talent to meet a need or further a mission, without going on the payroll.
No doubt you have heard of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs for short). Even if it’s only in connection with make Poverty History. Perhaps you recall the big rock concerts that happened in summer 2005 around the G8 in Scotland? Or maybe you have a white wrist band as part of the ONE campaign. But what next?
Goal 8 of the MDGs is to develop a global partnership for development, Abc4all Is doing just that by partnering with organizations, individuals, schools etc who would Like to give some of their noble time to work with the rural folks in Ghana for social positive change.
Abc4all is giving an opportunity to any person from any walk of life who would like to Spend time with schools, families, companies in the rural communities in Ghana to share with them their knowledge and learning experience.
THE CORE MESSAGE IS:
6 billion people - 1 world - 8 goals
YOUR ACTION MATTERS!
Areas of Work:
We have volunteer spaces in the following areas:Education
Education as you know is the key to success but is this necessary need being achieved? The second goal of the millennium development goals talked about achieving universal primary education by 2015, thus we are talking about a few years from now. The question is what the stage we have reached so far is and can this be achieved before that date?
Coming back to the Ghanaian view of this declaration, how far has the Government achieve this goal.
The Government of Ghana has now made primary education free and has introduced a free feeding program for the pupils. Even though these incentives have been putted in place to enable the children to attend school, there are certain basic needs that have not been putted in place to achieve good education.
Things like infrastructure is not well instituted: talking about lack of libraries for after school research, lack of canteen for them to sit comfortably and eat and lack of good teachers to teach these children among others.
Abc4all realizing this need has decided to offer volunteer opportunity to all those who are interested in helping this children to achieve at least primary education by offering their noble time to teach them English Language, Social issues,ICT and Peace education.
Participating schools can be found in several towns and villages of the following regions in Ghana: Greater Accra, Central, Eastern, Volta and Ashanti.
Culture
A good culture is what has been inspiring all the members of ABC4ALL For their day to day living.
Abc4all is offering a volunteer opportunity to interested people who would like to exchange cultures with Ghanaians.
Participants would be placed in any region and culture of His/Her choice to learn all about the host family’s culture and in return the participant also teach the home family the culture of his/her country.
Sports
Sports has now become the number one activity that brings people from all walks of like together for a common purpose.
Due to the love and interest developed by people in all continent and Ghana not being an exception Abc4all realising that has added sports volunteer program in our project.
This program aims at bringing volunteer who are interested in sporting activities ranging from various sporting activities like football,volleyball, basketball etc etc to come and help develop this children who have love and passion for sports and in the longrun helping development their minds in a more positive way as sports is all about fun and peace.
Farming/Agriculture
This project aims at offering volunteers the opportunity to meet with our local or indegenous farmers and help them with the new modern way of farming.
Most of our rural areas and farmers are still using the old system of farming who Man has to do all the work on the farm which in turn takes longer time to clear the land and plant and cultivate whiles there are new methoof farming now with the new emergence of technology.
Participants would teach the farmers what,when and how they should farm for better production.
Participants are going to work with families on the farm whiles they teach them the better way of farming.
Requirements for Volunteers:
- be between 18 and 65 years of age
- be able to walk long distances (up to 1 hour continuously) and be able to tolerate heat
- be available for a minimum of four weeks
- be able to speak English fluently
- have a High School qualification to teach at primary level, and a college degree to teach at secondary level
- A positive and realistic commitment to the programme
- A genuine commitment to learning
- Ability to solve problems
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Self confidence
- Ability to work with others in a team
- Sensitivity to the needs of others
Program ScheduleService Periods For Volunteer-Teachers: Due to the school calendar in Ghana, we can place volunteers during the following periods in the year:
Note: These dates vary slightly from year to year. They also vary from school to school and should be treated as approximate rather than confirmed dates.
- 10th January to 24th March
- 10th May to 24th July
- 10th September to 9th December
Volunteers can stay from a period of four weeks to six months. Your stay can be extended beyond six months on a case by case basis (depending upon the school's requirement).
About Ghana
Full country name: Republic of Ghana
Area: 239,460 sq km
Population: 23 million
Capital city: Accra (pop 1.97 million)
People: Akan (44%), Mole-Dagbane (16%), Ewé (13%), Ga (8%), Guan, Gurma, Gonja, Dagomba
Language: English (official language), Ewé, Ga, Twi
Religion: Christian (60%), Muslim (15%), traditional African religions (25%)
Government: Constitutional democracy
Major industries: Mining, lumber, gold, cocoa, light manufacturing
Major trading partners: US, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea
You can read more about Ghana on:
www.ghanaweb.com
www.ghana.com
www.ghanadistricts.com