Youth Development Volunteer Internship in Ghana

  Ghana

• Other Cities in Ghana: 
Rural Areas

Term: Fall, Spring, Summer, Throughout the year, Winter 
Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: Throughout the year (6 weeks to 52 weeks)(

Description: Isla offers a unique opportunity to live, learn, and serve in Ghana with a local host organization. Immerse yourself in a short term volunteer project (2-8 weeks) or an internship (9-52 weeks) in a rich cultural, service learning experience that combines cross-cultural and sustainable community development training with a hands-on service project.

Isla seeks individuals with an interest and experience in youth development and education as well as health and nutrition education to work in such areas as teaching; basic health and hygiene; malaria prevention; AIDS/HIV education; environmental education, health and water sanitation. Additional possibilities include work setting up a youth camp, help with record keeping, feeding orphans and vulnerable children, working with partners at the local childrens hospital, center for street children. and local orphanages.

Typically, participants will be involved in sustainable community development, teaching and training others, surveying local needs, planning projects as well as gaining valuable hands on experience all in the realm of youth development and education.

The Isla Ghana program will be one step in the realization to Project Okurases goals to develop:
· A family-based model of caring for HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
· A model for job and skills training for youth, young adults, and women in the arts and building industry.
· A model for family and village-based formal education with special emphasis on female children.

Highlights:
Why Isla? Isla offers...
* Individual short term volunteer and internship placements unique to your skill set facilitated and supervised through a local host organization.

* Opportunities to work with community initiated projects focused on sustainable development.

* Sustainable development training from Village Earth, one of the leading community based development training organizations in the U.S., prior to departure to destination.

* Flexible programs from 2-9 week volunteer opportunities to 9-52 week internships as well as 2-3 week alternative break service learning trips.

* In-country cross-cultural orientation and mid-term reflection and training sessions led by Isla group leaders.

* An ideal opportunity to gain experience in your field of study and authentic international work experience beneficial in a competitive economy...

Isla programs are designed to assist communities with their worthy endeavors, provide volunteers with practical education in sustainable community development, and promote cross-cultural understanding.

Qualifications:
Isla applicants should be 18 or older who have some education or experience in youth development, education, health, and nutrition. It is most important to be highly motivated and enthusiastic because the work can be quite demanding.

Qualities required: individuals who are adventurous, able to adapt quickly to a foreign environment, have the ability to take initiative, who are flexible and open-minded, service-oriented and who possess good communication skills, and a desire to have fun by serving and learning from new communities through cross-cultural exchange.

Application Process
-Online Application
-Statement of Purpose
-Resume/CV
-Non-refundable application fee of USD85
-2 References

Cost in US$: From 3195 for 6 weeks with each additional week increasing by 195, plus 85 application fee.

What is not included 
Domestic and international airfare and airport taxes, the cost of your passport, visas, and immunizations, and laundry service.

*This program is economical! We encourage you to shop around other international internship programs and compare fees.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Ghana Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Isla - International Service Learning Alliance 's Mission Statement: Isla- International Service Learning Alliance - offers unique volunteer and internship opportunities for individuals to work side by side with local community members who are trying to solve global problems at the local level. These partnerships provide a framework for people from different cultures and life experiences to learn from one another, discover their commonality and create a synergy that catalyzes progress. For the participant, Isla programs provide a rich cultural, service learning experience that combine cross-cultural and sustainable development training with a high impact hands-on service project. Isla programs assist communities with their worthy endeavors, provide volunteers with practical education in sustainable community development, and promote cross-cultural understanding.