Volunteer Information

Who Can Volunteer?

We are looking for people with good hearts, with or without previous experience or qualifications... including teachers, students, social workers, nurses, doctors, medical students, childcare workers and caring people like you! This could be the start of the most amazing life-long adventure you could ever imagine!

According to your abilities and desires we can place you as a volunteer working with orphans, street children, women's empowerment groups and also assisting local midwives. We also have a program for sports volunteering with the local football team!

We try to be flexible and place you where your interest lies, so even if you don't see it mentioned here, just ask!

When:

Our Programs start on the 1st and 15th of every month.

Where:

You choose! We have urban and rural placements available all over Ghana but most of our work is in the Tamale region, Northern Ghana

The Program:

SEDARVP-Ghana will pick up participants from the airport in Accra. The organizer will meet them at the airport and further assist them to get a hotel and check in.

When arriving in Accra participants will have a one-day orientation.

At this time participants will be assigned a work location and a host family. Living with host families enables volunteers to learn much of the culture from their host mothers.

When arriving in the town/village of work placement, SEDARVP-Ghana will provide another three days of orientation to get used to the culture and learn basic things.

Volunteers can also stretch out their hands to other departments where their services will be needed. Volunteers will serve in their areas for the period of 1-3 months or 4-6 months depending on the program they selected.

When visa extension is needed SEDARVP-Ghana takes the responsibility of extending it when they find it appropriate. This additional cost will be at participant's own expense.

Nearing the end of the program, volunteers are expected to write a report of activities to the organization to enable us to better tackle the problems these deprive people need.

Volunteers will receive a certificate of appreciation at the end of the program. Participants can use this certificate to verify that they have undergone training and experience within this organization, which not only provides professional in-service training but also some preliminary language training and cultural participation (drumming and dancing).

The cost is less than many other volunteer training organizations for the simple reason that this work is so urgent and vital.

Some African doctors will not treat the poorest women and children and many people die on their way to hospital, including pregnant women and street children.

Many small children live and sleep on the streets, or work there making their small trades (eg selling water) to pay for their schooling. There they are subject to the dangers of traffic as well as human cruelty, like rapes and beatings.

SEDARVP-Ghana tries to help all of these voiceless ones.

Why not find out now how you can use your compassion and your professional skills to benefit humanity and help put an end to extreme poverty?

--Click here to volunteer

Internships

SEDARVP-Ghana Internship Programs cover issues like research topics, languages, occupation, origin, culture and indigenous African healing methods and practices.

SEDARVP-Ghana organizes internships in northern Ghana. The internships are formed for international students of various fields to get work experience in Ghana.

After receiving a request from a student, SEDARVP-Ghana contacts old and new associates to form an appropriate program. 

Internships primarily include the following:

• Ecotourism
• Development Studies
• Health
• Teaching
• Handcraft
• Culture Studies

During the SEDARVP-Ghana Internship Program the student will be engaged in daily project activities. The manager of the project, together with the staff of SEDARVP Ghana, serves as the supervisors of the intern.

SEDARVP-Ghana recommends at least one week of local language and cross culture studies regardless of what field the internship is in.

--Click here for an internship

Testimonials

Australia

"I have personally known Mr Shaibu Niendow Abukari and the SEDARVP Ghana Organization for almost 3 years.

Shaibu is a very honourable and compassionate person who works hard every day to relieve the suffering and inequality he sees around him. I know that it affects him deeply.

The whole Team at SEDARVP are truly dedicated to finding solutions for some of the poorest rural families in Ghana and for helping the little children living in the streets or in the orphanages there.

They are also working hard helping the local women to develop small businesses and to uplift the quality of both education and health care in the region.

I urge people to support their wonderful initiatives through personal volunteering, financial donations or spreading the word internationally. If you visit them in person you will be warmly welcomed and I cannot think of a better or more worthwhile contribution towards ending extreme poverty and uplifting the lives of those who so desperately need a helping hand."

~ Ms Arielle Kelly, arielleskydancer_36@yahoo.com.au

Italy

This incredible project was created and is being sustained all along by the inspiring vision and hard work of its founder and President, Mr. Shaibu Abukari Niendow.

I do hope and believe that everyone who will be involved in this venture will become aware that the importance of these projects goes well beyond the benefits to local communities but will have a remarkable and positive impact on the very future of our planet at large and much greater so in the end, than any high-profile, endless talks in the palaces of power…

~ Mr. Giovanni Tovt, altrevaltres@email.it

Germany

I had heard so much good about Sedarvp Ghana that I start as soon as possible my journey to Ghana.

First, I met Mr. Shaibu Niendow the founder and president of Sedarvp Ghana. He is a very friendly and open-minded man. He has such a big heart and he wants to help everywhere in Ghana where he can.

Shaibu showed me his projects there in the northern region. In a small town with the typical round-houses I met the female members of his Women Empowerment project. They showed me how they are making from shea-nuts the best shea-butter and also how they made their typical handmade ceramic pots for saving water and foods inside.

With Shaibu I also visited the school with a lot of young girls and boys. In a simple house they have two classrooms there and the children we laughing and having a good time to meet me.

Football/Soccer – most Ghanaian boys and men play it full with passion. Sedarvp Ghana project also gives a chance to young boys for playing football in club there. We visited them and it was a pleasure for me to see that every young player on the field is full with biggest enthusiasm. Some of the boys have soccer-shoes, but the most of them played without shoes because they have no money to buy. But all are playing respectful together.

For a few days I was a little bit silent, because I was so impressed with the projects and all the effects of what I have seen here.

~ Olaf Eggers, olafeggers@aol.com