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Who are Ikando?

Ikando was founded by volunteers who had become exasperated at the difficulty and expense of volunteering despite the range of opportunities available. Our objective is to help more people gain the life changing, life affirming experiences that volunteering can give. We are committed to enabling skill transfer, enabling organisations in the developing world to access different skill sets and to helping volunteers realize the value they can add using the skills they hold.

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How did it start?

Laura, our founder, was doing volunteer work in Ghana and kept coming across organisations who were in need of volunteers. She knew how much she personally had gained from the experience and how it had changed her views on a lot of things and decided to enable other potential volunteers to have the same opportunity.

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What's special about Ikando?

Ikando is not like most other volunteer organisations in two important ways:

  1. We only recruit volunteers for organisations in Ghana. Why? This allows us to know the country inside and out and as such we can meet your needs better. Our wide range of placements is an indication of how well known we are in Ghana. From Red Cross projects to organisations on the refugee settlement Ikando can find you a placement of interest to you.
    It also means that our main office is based in Ghana. Unlike most volunteer organisations we don't just have one member of staff in country. We have seven members of staff who are there to ensure you have a great experience.
  2. We do not recruit for our own projects but for organisations independent of Ikando. This means that our volunteers work for genuine projects in Ghana.
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What are Ikando's aims?

Ikando's main aims are two-fold:

  1. To provide organisations in Ghana with quality, dedicated and hard-working volunteers who will help the organisations with the work they in turn do.
  2. To provide volunteers with a quality volunteer placement and take back with them a good understanding of the needs of the developing world and how their own life impacts this.
    Africa has a lot of positive things going for it. In many ways Ghanaians are much richer than people in the West and we hope that our volunteers come to appreciate this.

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Ikando's Aims

  • To help organisations in Ghana through the provision of quality, dedicated and hard-working volunteers.

    To give volunteers and interns a positive perspective of Africa. In many ways Ghanaians are much richer than people in the West and we hope that our volunteers come to appreciate this.

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Country Info

    The Republic of Ghana lies on the Gulf of Guinea, on the western coast of tropical Africa, bisected by the Greenwich Meridian. The country lies within GMT zone.It is bordered to the West by Cote d'Ivoire, to the North by Burkina Faso, to the East by Togo and to the South by the Atlantic Ocean. Ghana is equivalent in size to Great Britain or the state of Oregon in the USA. The population of Ghana is approximately 22 million.

    The capital of Ghana is Accra, situated on the Atlantic coast about 25km West of the Greenwich meridian. The current population of Accra is just under 2 million people.

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