Destiny Volunteers, Koforidua, Ghana, West Africa

Destiny Volunteers is a non-governmental organization (NGO) and a charity based in Ghana, Africa that seeks to volunteer in the following areas,

HEALTH; clinical/hospital placement and community health education.
EDUCATION; to improve access to quality education{provision of teaching aids, teachers etc}

RESEARCH; on behalf of students research, institutional research, individual research etc.

ENVIRONMENT; this is to help make Ghana green; planting of trees, water projects, etc.

AGRICULTURE/FARM; teaching local farmers on modernize/technological farm practice to increase their out put, helping on farm to harvest or planting of crops, fruits, vegetables and more, help in farm management etc.

INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS.

CONSTRUCTION/BUILDING;{schools, clinics/hospitals, library, etc}
But long term programmes could be arranged for volunteers who are interested in longer stay for months, a year or more.

International and African volunteers work together on a month{s} or more projects in the above mentioned areas. Everyone is welcome to apply for the volunteering projects, since there will be some days' training in the issues to be addressed. Destiny Volunteers offers worthwhile, exciting volunteering opportunities in Africa, bringing benefits to the communities as well as the volunteers.

African American Homeschoolers Networ, Agogo, Ghana, West Africa

The African American Homeschoolers Network (AAHN) is an organization established for families seeking educational resources. Founded by Meka Hunt and Akosua Boateng in 2002, the network has grown consistently.

AAHN is partnered with the Youth Institute of Science and Technology (YIST) located in Accra, Ghana.

This NGO provides education to children in Africa. It has a training and internship program for teachers.

This program allows students in American colleges to travel to Africa to learn valuable teaching skills and practice their skills in the classroom. YIST includes GIST, an educational program specifically designed for the education of girls.

African Women's Development Fund Awdf, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment.

AWDF through institutional capacity building and programme development seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women's movement.

The vision of AWDF is for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women's human rights. To this end, our mission is to mobilise financial resources to support local, national and regional initiatives led by women, which will lead to the achievement of this vision.

AWDF, the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making fund, was established in June 2000 by three African Women who have been active in various institutions within and outside Africa.

The founders, Ms Joanna Foster (Ghana) Dr Hilda Tadria (Uganda/Ethiopia) and Ms Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (UK/Nigeria), have a track record of successful empowerment interventions, which have helped strengthen the African Women’s Movement.

The objectives of AWDF are fundraising within and outside Africa, grant-making on an Africa-wide basis, communicating the work and achievements of African women’s organisations and providing technical assistance to grantees. AWDF has funded over 800 women's organisations in 41 African countries.

Rural Development Support Organisatio Of Ghana, Kumasi, West Africa

Rural Development Support Organisation (RUDSO)was established in the year 2002 as an independent, non government, not for profit, non- partisan and non- religious organisation. It is duly registered in Ghana and has been accredited by the deparment of social to operate as an NGO as required under the laws of the country.

RUDSO is also a memeber of Ghana Association of Private Voluntary (GAPVOD)and world Association of NGOs (WANGO)

Overall, poverty decreased between 1991/1992 and 1998/1999 from 5107% to 39.5%. However, these figures mask incidence of growing and deepening poverty among certain social groups and localities. Our food crop farmers, who live in the rural areas, continue to endure the most of poverty in the country, as they consitute more than 59% of the poor in the country.

We agree perfectly with Mahatma Ghandi when he said, poverty is the worst form of violence and that the only way to alleviate poverty is to revive and improve on the skills of the local people. Our only aim therfore is to assist the resouce poor, the excluded, and the vulnerable to achive qualitative cahnges in their welfare.

Our stated commitment is to reduce poverty and stimulate the sustainable development of deprived communities thorugh developing hte potentials of individual members of society to advance hteir socio-economic welfare and that of their communities in ways that are culturally and environmentally sustainable.

In order to chieve total and holistic improvements in the welfare of our partners, RUDSO will work together with raual communities and deprived urban neighbouhoods to provide social and technical infrastructure. Our focus will also be on sustainable human development by means of building the capacity of civil society at the grassroots through strengthening their skills and knowledge to effect and manage change at al levels - family, local ,nation, and world.

We believe in combinbing the concept good governance and ecomonmic empowerment in the war on poverty in order that the poor can prosper in an atmosphere of freedom, juustice, and accountability. In additio nwe will advocate for he poor, vulnerable, excluded, and underpriviledged in society so that their views are well informed and well represented at al levels of government.

Nature Conservation Research Centre-ncrc, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Nature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC) is recognized internationally as a leader in developing rural ecotourism and community protected areas as a means of economic development and resource conservation.

NCRC’s initiatives have facilitated sustainable economic development in scores of poor rural areas of Ghana and other nations in West Africa.

Founded in Ghana in 1996, NCRC has grown rapidly to become Ghana’s leading indigenous conservation organisation, as well as a key actor in West African civil society.

Ghana’s National Tourism Policy has adopted NCRC’s model as the preferred approach to the development of rural tourism.

The model is acknowledged globally as one of the most successful rural tourism initiatives being implemented today.

NCRC is a Ghanaian non-profit organisation implementing conservation initiatives to promote a greater awareness of and protection for the natural, historic and cultural diversity of Ghana and, ultimately, the West African sub-region.

Volunteer And Culture Xp, Akatsi, Ghana, West Africa

The mission of Volunteer and Culture Xp is to create and promote volunteer opportunities that improve the lives of others and the environment in which they live.

We do this by supporting the work of local communities in various countriesthrough the placement of international volunteers.

At the same time, we work with all of our partners to ensure that each program meets the high standards of quality that you expect and deserve as a volunteer.

All volunteer programs depend on the skilled coordination of a variety of elements: organized projects, volunteers, meaningful work and supportive staff.

It is our goal at Volunteer and Culture Xp to get all this set up for you. We use our experience and resources to provide volunteer experiences that bring pride and satisfaction to everyone involved.

Ghanathink Foundation, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

We are an Africa-focused think-tank based in Ghana. We aim, among other things, to serve as a source and reservoir of ideas for the advancement of all humanity, beginning from the society and culture that has most influenced our way of thinking about the world—our cultural neighborhood Ghana; to organize the mass of brilliant Ghanaian talent around the world in the service of their cultural neighborhood.

GhanaThink seeks to mobilize and deploy Diasporean volunteer labor for the primary benefit of Ghana, and consequently of Africa and the whole world, for we are each our brother's keeper.