THE ORGANIZATION BASE
IN THE NORTH
The capital of North is called Tamale. Tamale is haven
a population of 400 thousand. You can find a place where you can drink any type
of drink you want. There are nightclubs and swimming pools and the people are
very nice to every one. They are paying much attention to everyone trying to
locate some place show the way or sometimes they take you to that place for
free. Maybe what you will say is thank you to that parson is always suppressed.
To the new people in the country is also part of Ghanaian culture
Will not have light No drinking place no
night club. But is great a experience the organization. Will visit you every
Monday morning and pick you up to tamale on Sunday morning for week end
STREET CHILREN
The
organization is also taking care of some of this street children as well as we
all know That this can of children need a lot of support In their life’s a
street child orce of parent, or due to death of parent sometimes, hardship by
their uncle or nutty
The organization is helping this
children to get a better future so the they can be Responsible people in the
society as well as good people can crate development. In the country their
education is the organization privilege
THE CAN OF HELP TO STREET CHILD
The organization is paying their school
fees, cloth’s, food, hospital bills, and a house to stay, Teaching them right
from wrong and how to live in society
TOURISM
The organization will take the new
volunteer
Around tamale to show he/she the tourist attraction as well as
Africa nature is concern
At list to show the volunteer what
tamale is having
In teams of tourist attraction
To make the new volunteer happy the
organization will take a trip with. He/she to mole national park where there
are all kind of animals. From tamale to mole is about two to three hours to
mole
The organization can take any volunteer
who is welling to tour around the country or the near by country’s tneed
support from anyone because he/she can not trace the root. Of the parent
Some of these children are having
parent. they be came street children. Because of poverty, divhat is if the
volunteer can not go alone because is the organization responsibility to make
sure the a volunteer is safe
POOR PARENT
The organization is helping the poor
parent. If a parent is having a family
and they are more then two the organization can only take care. Of one out of
the children that parent are having
The organization is doing
that because there are a lot of parent that need that can of support from the
organization that is why the organization as decide to take one out of a family
So that it will go round the table Means
any parent that comes across the organization will also benefit The
support. The can of support the
organization is giving to this can of children is
Paying their school fees, uniforms, and
packet money this packet money, this will enable them solve the anther problem
GHANA INFO
Your can located Ghana in West Africa on
the gulf coast with its freedom from British rule in 1957 it was the fist
Africa country to gain independence from British
The official language of Ghana is
English but more then 60 different language are spoken the tribal clan and
system are part of the culture in Ghana many traditional chefs operate on a
parallels system with a elected government the northern region of Ghana is
desert while the majority of the country is rainforest and a savanna runs along
the coast in south
Ghanaians have a strong sense of family
and culture roost foreigners will quickly. Realize that visiting and discussing
with friend and family and every important Ghanaians are famed loving to talk
and exchange ideas with others though it could be a direct change foe visitor
the openness and laid back attitude allows an opportunity to get to know the
local people a comfortable setting most Ghanaians like to talking to foreigners
to lean about their culture. And to teach them their own
TAMALE
Tamale is the capita of the northern
region of Ghana the north is the flat and with dry landscape in there is the
raining season. And the dry season is the longer one and reaches from November
to end of June there are many different tribes in tamale but the main tribe is
Dagombas whose land is called Dagon Dagombas is lacking a writing culture and
is instead one the cultural groups with a every sophisticated oral culture this
is the women around drums and other musical instrument thus most of its history
until quite recently has been based on a oral tradition with drummer as
professional historical according to oral tradition the political history of Dagbon
has is genesis in the life story of a legend called Tohazie red hunter
Ghanaians in general and the northerners
in particular are know be welcoming and hospitable to strangers
Tamale is not as developed as in down in
the south of Ghana but the government has promise to spend more on the north of
the country over the next few years. Tamale is accommodating the new university
of development studies the regional hospital of northern region situated in
tamale there are also various clinics and laboratories. The tap water in tamale
is tread but foreigners are recommended to boil that again or buy mineral
water.
Pharmacies are common in tamale the most
common means and transportation in tamale is bicycle or taxi the operate as
shuffle taxis. Leaving down when they are full and picking up and dropping
people along the way.
GHANA HISTORY
Ghana was colonized by British until
1957 the fist European who came to Ghana were Portuguese in the 1400s they
named country the gold coast which was its name until independence. During the
years between the Portuguese discovery and independence a lot of European
country fought for the power of the country and supremacy of trade the built
fort and castles
By the
country coordinator
.picking the
participant up from the airport in Accra
.two night
spent in a guesthouse in Accra
.one day of
orientation in Accra including all the transportation costs entrée costs for
museum or beach and an evening supper
.
Transportation to your tamale by S T C bus
.Transportation
to the town /village where you will stay
.three days
of orientation in the town where you will
.this
orientation will cosset of.
Visit the
organization office in tamale
Cultural
lessons in the office
.Introduction to work place.
About
host family
Host family which conceit Host father
mother brothers and sisters where a volunteer will stay for the number of days
he/she is going to be in the country.
The host families are very caring and
concern about the volunteer living with them. they teacher
The person what ever he/she need to know
in Ghanaian culture. A volunteer will be living in a sprat room in the house.
With all the vitalities in the room. A volunteer can use all
Vitalities
in the house as well as
He/she is part of the family. You
Can ask the host mother to give you any food
you
Like to eat. Or if you want
to cook it your self your host family will teacher you how to proper Ghanaian
dish. Or
You can do it with your host sisters. The
Organization
will visit you at your host family’s house to see how you are doing With them.
And ask you a fear question If you like it with them the organization will live
you there. If you don’t like it then the organization will change you a
New place.
WORKING
PLACE FOR A VOLUNTEER a volunteer can choice to work any
place he/she want to work as a volunteer.
Places like hospitals schools orphanages
and so for. The organization will visit you. At your work to find out if you
are comfortable with your job you had choosing for yourself the organization
will the fore tread you The job you think you can do and is difficult to you. And always read to change the work you
are not able to do.
PRIMARY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
One class room contends over fifty
children. With one teacher the teacher state teaching. From seven am to one o’clock
pm. and with other activities in the school
ORPHANAGE ACTIVITIES
At the orphanage they are baby from one
week old up to five years old these children need a lot of assistance. So
people with humanity are always around them. To give them the necessary
assistance. Like Cleaning them feeding and all the assistance that a baby need
to get from the mother.
HOSPITAL ACTIVITIE
As we all know what a worker is doing
over there at the hospital the organization volunteers who are already hospital
workers from where ever they are coming from. Is always easy for them. Some volunteer are not hospital workers
already. But they will like to work at the hospital. For that mate the
organization is taking them to clinic where are no a lot patient. Where the
organization think it be easy for that kind parson also
PICKING THE VOLUTEER COMING TO THE
ORGANASATION
The organization will pick up the
volunteer at the air port that means the organization will surely wait for the
new coming volunteer at the air port. To make sure that the volunteer will not
face any problem because that is volunteer first time in the country as well as
is the organization responsibility to protect and make sure the volunteer with
the organization is safe in Accra the organization will stay with the volunteer
in Accra for thee night so that he/she will rest and live in capital of Ghana
and see the movement in Accra the organization will take the volunteer to tours
attractions in Accra. Place like beach and museum.
Museum is a place where you can find the information abut salves
Before the organization will round you
to tamale bringing the volunteer to tamale the organization will use S C T but
because is most comfortable
Bus Company in the country from Accra to
tamale is 300 kilo
THE ORGANIZATION BASE IN NORTH
The capital of north called tamale.
Tamale is haven a population of 18.4 you can fund a place where you can drink
any type of drink you want. There are night clubs and swimming pools and the
people are very nice to every one. They paying attention to everyone trying to
locate some place show the way or sometimes they take you to that place for
free. Maybe what you will Said is thank you to that parson is always suppress.
To the new people in the country is also part of Ghanaian culture
ROYAL ERA
At the royal era the organization is
helping them with things like (advice) advising them to take their children to
school Teaching them how to get clean water the organization is Helping them
with school Martial Books school uniforms and so for So with all this the
organization need Volunteers over there So a volunteer is likely to stay at the
royal era a along the coast use as trade centers fighting
headquarters many of this forts and castle are still there today
The name gold coast was giving because
of the country’s great resources today the main export products are cocoa gold
and forest produces.
The first Ghana president after
independent was kwame Nkrumah today’s president is John Agykum kufuor who came
to power in 2000
CLIMATE
Ghana has a tropical climate
characterized moat the years by temperatures between 21.32?c( 70-90?f).constant
breeze sunshine in the south here are
two rainy seasons, from march to July and from
September
POPULATION
The population of Ghana 20.4 million the
country has ten regions and most of the population is concentrated in the
southern part of the country with the hinges densities occurring in urban areas
and cocoa-producing areas Ghana’s principal ether group are the Akans (Twi and
fante speaking).the guans ewes,dagombas, gas gonjas. Walas and Frafras. There
are around 60 Ghanaians dialects and languages the official language of the
country is
ENGLISH
Ghana’s population of comprises
Christian (43 percent) animists (38percent) and Muslims 12 percent) there is
freedom of religion in Ghana
HEALTH CARE
Ghana has a reasonably good health
service all regional capital and most district have hospital polyclinics and
clinics additionally. A number of religious organization and private medical
practitioner operate hospitals and clinics all over the country herbal medicine
and psychic healing are also generally practiced and there is a special
government herbal medicine hospital and research centre at akwepim-Mampong
ABOUT GUINEA WORM
The organization also cooperates with
Ghana health service to deal with guinea worm disease. a person can get guinea
worm though water mostly in royal areas. Due to Lack of good water at the royal
area so that mater government. Decide to set up an organization. Organized by
ministry of health service Ghana
The organization as to decide to join
the Ghana health service to deal with guinea worm because there are a lot of
children surfing from guinea worm disease And is the organization
responsibility to make children around the north happy or to support any child
that needs support
GUINEA WORM DISEASE TRASMISSION
Guinea worm disease is contracted when
stagnant water. Contaminated with microscopic water fleas carrying infective
larvae, is consumed inside a human’s abdomen. Guinea worm larvae mature and
grow some as long as three feet after a year the guinea worm slowly emerges
through an agonizingly painful blister in the skin guinea worm can take up to
two months to be completely remove and even then secondary infections may occur
victims often immerse their limbs in water seeking relief from the burning
sensation caused by emerging guinea worm and thus re-contaminate drinking water
Education and low –technology measure to
promote behavioral change are the most effective means of preventing guinea
worm disease the guinea worm disease cycle can be stopped in many ways
preventing persons with an emerging guinea worm from entering sources of
Drinking water. Constructing boreholes or deep wells treating water with a
chemical called. ABATE? LARVICIDE; and filtering or boiling all drinking water
filtering water is highly effective for reducing guinea worm disease especially
when coupled with other strategies. Such as health education,
VOLUNTARY INFORMATION
Volunteer can attend this project
anytime of the year and will be trained by a staff member of the guinea worm
organization they will get training from the guinea worm department in tamale
before they are sent out to the village. The organization volunteers will work
together with a local volunteer these mostly students from UDS. Who are studying developmental studies or
healthcare studies?
The volunteer will stay in the village
where they be working The organization provides the volunteer a
host family the circumstances are mostly poor and without any facilities there
are villages where there is no electricity or running water volunteer should be
prepared to live in this circumstances
The main task of the volunteer will be
. Training the local citizens how to
treat water before drinking
. Training to achieve behavioral changes
. Training the locals how they can
prevent the guinea worm disease
. Giving health education
REQUIREMENTS
The volunteer is willing to stay in
rural area under primitive circumstances the volunteer has outstanding social
skills and is able to community with children as well as elders the
volunteer has a great feeling of
responsibility and is initiative a-taking
ACCMMDATION TO THE
PARTICIPANTS
The organization is having thee types of
accommodations. Living with host family, staying in guesthouse, living in the
apartment, traditional house
HOST FAMILY
A nice way of getting to know the
culture and the daily life of people in the northern Ghana is staying with a
family in their home these are local families with normal standard homes in the
families an own room light, water toilet and bath is available in some part of
northern Ghana running water or electricity is not available at any time. Some
areas are restricted to a couple of running water or electricity per day or
sometimes per week
TRADITIONAL HOUSE
Participants who work in the rural areas
with the opportunity to stay in a traditional round house with a family are
more primitive then the normal house but conveniently cool in the nights there
is usually no running water or electricity but there is so much hospitality
from the local people that you won’t ever notice it the participant will
usually live in a special compound for themselves but close to a family of the
community who will guide and cook for them
GUESTHOUSE
In northern Ghana are a lot of
guesthouses of varying standards and prices. Upon request the organization will
organize a type of participant preference in the surroundings of tamale there
is also the opportunity to stay in a small apartment living like this will take
more care of themselves
CONDITIONS
1)
all applicants must be 18 of age or above
2)
the duration of the voluntary program is flexible but
a minimum of two months to maximum of one year id preferable the duration of
other project is more flexible and depend on the type of project and the
concerned participant the duration and intensity of stay is negotiated upon
ideally before participant arrival
RESPONSIBILITY OF
THE PARTICIPANT
3)
Participant themselves will organize visa, flight
ticket vaccinations, insurance and other required document country coordinators
will do their best to be of help when need
4)
Participant will responsible for themselves during
their in Ghana
5)
Participant will
stand for all their additional costs while in Ghana
6)
The organization program fee plus the costs for the
host family need to be with organization at least two months prior to departure
7)
After the selection of the participants they are
required to attend a preparation meeting home country organize by country
coordinator
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ORGANIZATION
8)
For participant who attend the voluntary program the
organization has the responsibility to a workplace and host family. The
participant who attends an education program the organization has the
responsibility to arrange the program and find the participant a host family.
The organization will always be available to help with that is possible and to
answer question
PARTICIPANT
OBLIGATIONS
During their
stay in Ghana participant
. Should
always be in time to work
.Should
always work on the hours decide upon
.should
follow the rules given by organization staff or working placement.
VOLUNTARY
PROGRAM COST
COST
The costs
for the volunteer program and education program differ in some aspects. The
education program include the volunteer program with an below you can see how
the cost are arrange for the volunteer program
To fine out
more about the education program costs contact your country coordinator.
VOLUNTEER
PROGRAM
Program fee
300 euros
Host family
fee 60 euros /month
. Coaching
and preparation in your home country
.Overall
coaching by the organization staff members
.Introduction
in the local language 24 hours available of organization staffs
.A meeting
with the staff and other volunteer every two weeks
The
possibility to use the organization office to write your report
Introduction
to the children of the organization
COMMENICATION SYSTEM IN TAMALE
Tamale is having a very good
communication system. Which you won’t regret
. Phone line’s are available for any
participant who want to make a call to the family back home. Both international
and local calls
. mole phone participant can buy a self
phone with own line. And still make international and local calls with your
self phone
. fax you can make your fax at anytime
you wish to, you can make your fax at any communication centre and pay upon the
page you have making
