Apply Now

Video and documentary volunteers' assistance in Ghana

5.0
(2 reviews)2

The experience

St. Miracle Works Educational Foundation video and documentary projects gives you the opportunity not to make a positive impact in a community, build new skills, and gain leadership experience, but also help you share your knowledge and provide valuable skills to local NGOs in Ghana.
SMWEF offers opportunities with video and documentary projects in Ghana throughout the year. Volunteers in this program traditional Ghanaian life.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

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

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

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 25 Per day

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

Description: Volunteers' fees cover accommodation, 3 meals daily, airport pickup, orientation, visa support letter, pre-departure information pack, donation to project, in-country supervision & support by project staff, utility bills, certificate upon project completion, reference letter upon request.

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

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are excited about your interest in volunteering with SMWEF to help make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged children and empowering communities at large. You'll have an excellent opportunity to identify and share a story during your upcoming trip to Ghana with SMWEF.

But there is a broad scope for you to determine on the ground what aspect of the story to tell and how. We value your investment of time, resources and understanding challenges of this work.

Volunteer tasks involve:

Help in editing with high creativity videos and retouch images.
Taking professional videos and photos.
Create good and attractive content for educational courses for beneficiaries and reports.
Help to initiate social activities.
Help with graphic designs.
Setting up photographic equipment.
Promoting our works online etc.

Volunteer requirement

Volunteers on this program must be 18 years and above on the program start date and duration.
Volunteers must be fluent in English or basic to be able to communicate with the local people and must come along with bundle of energy.
Must have at least a high school educational background.
No prior requirement is required for this program.
Must be able to adapt to the environment and be flexible to learn and experience the culture in Ghana.

Activities & Shift

Volunteers wake up and breakfast time is 7:00-7:30 am.
Work starts by 8 am.
Lunch break is 12:00-12:30pm
Closing period is 2pm.

There are other options which volunteer decide to help the organization with administrative works and learn extra co-curricular activities like local games etc.
Dinner is usually around 5:00 pm-5:30pm.
We work from Monday to Friday in the week.

Weekends are free and volunteers have opportunity to visit tourist attractions like highest waterfall, monkey sanctuary, canopy walk among others within the country.

Rules

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