Placements

Ikando enables people from around the world to share their skills and expertise, welcoming applications from all, regardless of age or experience. We facilitate placements for one or more people, for a minimum of two weeks and can secure the placement within two weeks of receiving your enquiry. We offer placements that will either utilise skills you hold already or give opportunity to learn new skills. We will match your skills and expectations with those of your host organisation to ensure your placement is a professionally, as well as a personally, rewarding experience. This is achieved through our rigorous application process, and in depth research into potential host organisations to assess what is needed and what the volunteer can expect.

To combine multiple placements, please email Ikando for more information.

 

All of our Volunteer Programs

Street Academy Constructs LLC Development in Focus
Street Academy
Architecture
 Development in Focus

• Sports Coachs
• Teachers
• Teaching Assistants
• Project coordinators
• Fundraisers
• Web Designers

 • Researchers
• Web & Graphic Designers
• Product Developers
• Office Admin (stipend provided!)

• Students
• Child Rights Educator
• Social Worker
• Development Project Assistants
• Community Sanitation Officer
• Development Fundraiser

African Business Network West-African Mosque
National Newspaper
African Business NGO National Museum National Newspaper
• Microfinance Business Advisor
• Business Development Researcher
• Youth Enterprises Officer
• Women Enterprises Officer
• Agribusiness Development Officer
• Waste Management Officer

• Assistant Curator
• Cataloguer
• Students




• Journalists / Reporters
• Proof-readers
• Press Photographer
• Marketing Executives
• Graphic Designers


Autism Awareness Centre Children's Village Orphanage Slums in Ghana
Autism Centre
Children's Village Housing Rights Centre

• Special Needs Teaching Assistants
• Speech & Language Therapist
• Playtime Coordinators
• Clinical Psychologists
• Occupational Psychologists
• Students
• Special Needs Teachers
• Music Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Drama Therapists
• Fundraisers

• Orphan's Care Assistants
• Pre-School Teachers
• Healthcare Volunteers
• Primary School Teachers
• Computer Instructor
• Kitchen Assistants






 • Lawyers (Human Rights)
• Women's Rights Project Assistants
• Communications Assistants
• Project Assistants







Kwahu-Tafo Marketing & Advertising Shawbell Consulting
Community Development
 Marketing & Advertising Shawbell Consulting

• Performing Arts Volunteer
• Agricultural Coordinator
• Sanitation Officer
• Conflict Resolution Officer
• Music Club Coordinator
• Micro-Finance Advisor
• Community Healthcare

• Marketing Assistants
• Students
• Film Editors
• Advertising Agents
• Graphic Designers

• Assistant consultants
• Law (under)graduates
Disabled Rehab Group Nubuke Foundation Ghana Sustainable Change Project
Disabled Rehabilitation Art & Culture Organisation USAID Funded Project

• Marketing & Business Development Officer
• Sales & Fundraising Officer
• Sewing Instructors
• Carpentry Instructors
• Shoe Making Instructors
• Village Craft Instructors
• ITC Instructors

 • Graphic Designer
• Film editor
• Editor / Writer
• Curator / Cataloguer
• Web Designer
• Studio Artist
• Fundraiser


• Experienced editors/writers
• Monitoring & Evaluation Specialists
• Community Radio Coordinator
LifeBridge Foundation Ghana Planetarium Project Rural Orphanage
Literacy Program Planetarium Project Rural Orphanage

• Nursery Coordinator
• Adult Literacy Instructor
• Reading Club Coordinator
• Child Care Assistant
• Administrator
• Fundraiser
• Webdesigner


 • Planetarium Assistant
• Project Coordinator







• Orphan's Care Assistants
• Teaching Assistants
• Health Education Program Officer
• Sports Teacher
• Project Administrator
• Library Assistant
• Assistant Supervisor
• Kitchen Assistants

State School for the Deaf HyBrid Exhibition 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Art
Deaf School Art Exhibition Contemporary Art

• Grounds men
• Classroom Assistant
• Playtime & Sports Assistant

• Exhibition Coordinator



• Office Administrator/Event organiser
• Fund raiser
• Project Coordinator
Human Rights Centre Wild Gecko BusyLab
Human Rights Centre
Wild Gecko 		BusyLab

• Human Rights Educator
• Gender Project Advocator
• Sexual Rights Officer
• Communications Officer
• Human Rights Lawyer
• Medical Assistant
• Peer Educator
• HIV/AIDS Counselor
• Youth Rights Project Officer

• Jewelers
• Carpenters / wood workers / joiners
• Blacksmiths & welders

• Software developer. All expenses paid!!!
Ikando Foundation Ghana Wildlife Society Healthcare in Society

Ikando
 Ghana Wildlife Society Women & AIDS in Africa

• Webdesigners (FREE!!)
• Database Developers (FREE!!)
• Photographers (FREE!!)
• Fim Maker (FREE!!)
• SEO Consultant (FREE!!)
• Marketing Assistant (FREE!!)
• Translators (FREE!!)
• Business Development Officer (FREE!!)
• DIY Volunteer (FREE!!)

• Students
• Vets
• Researchers
• Professional Photographers






• Healthcare Project Coordinators
• IT Officer
• Fundraisers

 

 

 

Placements

    How do I apply?

    To apply for one of our positions please complete our application form. Once we receive your application we will review it and send you additional information on the placement(s) of your choice together with an sign-up form.

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Our Ghana Team

Al, Rose & Gabriel

Our Ten-strong staff team will be available 24/7 to help you throughout your placement.

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Resource Centre

Check out our extensive resource centre where you will find documentation on working with children, fundraising, volunteering with Ikando and much more.

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Our Accommodation
Ikando Accra Accommodation

In Accra we have two accommodations just round the corner from each other and located dot in the centre of town.

How safe is Ghana?

Ghana is generally a very peaceful and stable country. In the Global Peace Index it is ranked above both the United Kingdom and the US. It is the perfect introduction for first time volunteers to Africa.

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Explore Ghana


Ghana boasts beautiful white sandy beaches, dense tropical rainforests and wild savannahs. Volunteers usually spend their weekends together exploring the country

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Airport pick-up
Quarshi Quarshi will most probably be the member of staff to meet you at the airport. Arrivals is located outside the building. Just keep an eye out for an Ikando sign with your name on it.

Ikando volunteer blogs


Want to know previous Ikando volunteer's experiences? Just check out their online blogs detailing their volunteer experience.

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"The staff at Ikando are available 24/7 and are very helpful should you encounter any difficulties. In particular Quashi who is one of the house workers  is eager to interact and make everyone feel at home when they arrive. He is a good source of information and he loves to chat and teach volunteers how to cook local cuisine."

Anne Thoday - November 2008

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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    History of Ghana

Ghana is a fascinating culture at a cross roads between the past and the present. It is historically rich and amazingly diverse. It boasts the legacy of the great Ashanti Empire of the 11th century along with the dubious distinction of being the most traveled route for the transport of Africans to the new world.

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