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Family Trip Volunteer Abroad

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The experience

Are you and your family looking for a safe, meaningful, and affordable way to volunteer abroad? Do you want to travel together while making a real difference in the lives of underserved communities?
St. Miracle Works Educational Foundation (SMWEF) offers the perfect opportunity to plan a unique family volunteer trip with ease and purpose.
SMWEF provides trusted, well-organized volunteer programs in Ghana for kindhearted and open-minded family.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 30 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: Volunteers contribute $30 per day to cover expenses on food, accommodation, Orientation, Visa support document, Pre-departure information pack, airport pickup, donation to project, utility bills, certificate upon project completion, reference letter upon request, 24/7 In-Country Supervision & Support from staff.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Are you and your family looking for a safe, meaningful, and affordable way to volunteer abroad? Do you want to travel together while making a real difference in the lives of underserved communities? St. Miracle Works Educational Foundation (SMWEF) offers the perfect opportunity to plan a unique family volunteer trip with ease and purpose.

St. Miracle Works Educational Foundation provides trusted, well-organized volunteer programs in Ghana for kindhearted, energetic, and open-minded families who want to give back. Whether you're interested in working with street children, orphans, supporting education, or contributing to community development projects, SMWEF has a program to match your family’s passion.

Traveling with your family through SMWEF offers more than a vacation—it creates a shared experience that promotes compassion, teamwork, and global awareness. Many communities in Ghana face daily struggles, and families who are fortunate to live without such hardship are in an excellent position to offer support and bring positive change.

Join SMWEF for a family volunteering trip that’s not only rewarding and impactful, but also a journey your family will never forget. You and your family can volunteer with underprivileged and orphan children, education and community development projects.

This program is designed and suitable for families and couples who want to take career break, gap years, etc. while contributing towards helping underprivileged children and empower underserved communities. If you are a group of more than two, you can customize your volunteering experience to meet the specific interests, needs and set goals of your family.

Activities & Shift

Typical day

Volunteers are likely to work for 5 hours with flexibility. A typical day goes like this:
7:00am - 7:30am Breakfast
7:45am walk or ride to placement
8:00am Instructions on assignment for the day
8:30am Volunteer work begins
12:00Pm Lunch/Snack break/Rest
1:00pm Volunteer work resume
2:00pm Closing (Volunteers have the option to continue based on the need)
5:30pm - 6:00pm Dinner
Evenings Time to socialize with host family to know the culture, traditions etc.

Free Time activities

Volunteers have the weekend to explore the 16 regions of Ghana. Each region has its unique culture and tourists' sites. Volunteers are advice to read more about Ghana's tourist sites to help them a fair idea of where their interest will be.

We help volunteers to choose tourist sites and give advice on safety check, accommodation and recommend tour guide if the need be. There is forts & castles, monkey sanctuary, mole safari ride, waterfalls, open street market, museum etc. that volunteers can visit as well as local festivals like Bakatue, Akomase, Homowo, Aboakyere, Chalewote festival etc.

During the weekdays too, volunteers can go to the shopping, market centers or relax at the beach after volunteer duties ends.

Rules

We expect all volunteers to respect our local culture, directions, be flexible and humble themselves during their stay at our place.