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Help Teach Creative Arts Lessons in Schools

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The experience

St. Miracle Works Ghana Creative Arts volunteer project give you the opportunity not only to make a positive impact in an underserve community, build new skills, and gain leadership experience, but also to share your knowledge and provide valuable skills to youth and children in Ghana.
SMWEF offers volunteers opportunities from two weeks and above and project is available throughout the year. Its suitable for students, volunteers, solo travelers

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

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

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

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

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and 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

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

St. Miracle Works Ghana Creative Arts volunteer project give you the opportunity not only to make a positive impact in an underserve community, build new skills, and gain leadership experience, but also to share your knowledge and provide valuable skills to youth and children in Ghana. Creative Arts lesson are an important lesson in Ghana education system, and in schools but often lacks teachers to teach and requires helping hands of volunteers from around to make a meaningful contribution especially in the rural communities in Ghana.

SMWEF offers volunteers opportunities from two weeks and above and project is available throughout the year. Its suitable for students, volunteers, solo travelers, groups, families, career breakers, gap years etc.

Volunteers on this program experience traditional Ghanaian life and participate on tasks including teaching children various basic ceramics and molding etc. It is therefore important that, volunteers should be enthusiastic about creative arts and able to inspire the children to develop practical arts knowledge and skills.

Volunteers teaches children from 6 years to 17 years.

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 and 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.