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Day 1 - Welcome
Arrival at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra. WV Ghana will
meet you at the Airport to pick you up. You will be transferred
to your host for some rest. You will have opportunity for yourself
to rest . Depending on the time of arrival, volunteers will spend
the night in a guest house and then the next day we leave to the
project location in Ashanti or Brong Ahafo Region.
Day 2 - Orientation: Volunteers will betaken to the project
site - Volunteers will be led and work together with local skilled
people who will be providing free labour for the improvement of
their communities. The volunteers will be working in hand with the
local community members. You will be met and greeted local community
members both skilled and unskilled. You will receive some orientation
as well as details about the building project.
Day 3 - Culture Program & Orientation with language. World
Volunteers Ghana will give you important information about many
things including safety, malaria, Ghana food, shopping, clothing,
cultural restrictions, money etc. Orientation Manuals will be distributed
and a review of other material such as maps etc done. Information
and profiles of the home-stay hosts will be introduced in this meeting.
In addition, you will be introduced to the profile of local communities
where you will work. Issues such as eradication of poverty, combating
HIV/AIDS, skills deficiency, business and economic development will
be discussed. You will also be introduced to basic local Ghanaian
phrases.
Day 4 - Culture program and a visit to the Manhyia Palace.The
residence of the Ashanti King. After breakfast, volunteers will
be taken on a tour to the Ahwiaa where the whole village is engaged
in Ghanaian Handy Craft, surrounded by an indigenous tropical forest
with very high floral concentration.
Day 5 - (Day rest) Volunteers will taken to the biggest
artificial Lake in West Africa; Lake Bosomtwe to swim and Jam.
Day 6 - During the evening the volunteers will be learning
sessions with regards to the social activities in the village. Keeping
the children busy and organizing educational and recreational activities
for them (games, art, music, etc.) These include drumming, cooking
and language lessons. In the evenings, the villagers offer an entertainment
programme for the guests to watch and participate. Among others,
there are options which include drumming and dancing with the whole
village, or listening to a storyteller who narrates old animal fables
around a bonfire.
Day 7
(Sunday) - On Sundays, Ghanaians mostly attend church services.
Volunteers would be asked to join the community to the church celebrations,
which can take about three hours. It is an experience to witness
these church activities. But if volunteer decide not to attend the
church celebrations, he or she may decide not to attend.
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