Volunteer Teaching 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.


Street Academy	Rural Orphanage	Autism Centre
Sports Coachs Teachers Teaching Assistants Project coordinators Fundraisers Web Designers	Orphan's Care Assistants Teaching Assistants Health Education Program Officer Sports Teacher Project Administrator Library Assistant Assistant Supervisor Kitchen Assistants	Special Needs Teaching Assistants Speech & Language Therapist Playtime Coordinators Clinical Psychologists Occupational Psychologists Students Special Needs Teachers Music Therapists Art Therapists Drama Therapists Fundraisers

Literacy Program	Planetarium Project	Community Development
Nursery Coordinator Adult Literacy Instructor Reading Club Coordinator Child Care Assistant Administrator Fundraiser Webdesigner	Planetarium Assistant Project Coordinator	Sports Coach Counsellors Health Care Assistants Orphan Care Assistants Teaching Assistants

Community Development
Performing Arts Teacher Music Club Teacher

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.

Our Ghana Team

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

Resource Centre

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

Our Accommodation

The Agoo Hostel has been recently refurbished and is 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.

Explore Ghana

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

Airport pick-up
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.

"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 workersÃ‚Â 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.

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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