Health Prevention Assistant

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a serious disease caused by a virus which destroys the body’s natural protection from infection, and which usually causes death in Africa, killing most people as well as rendering them orphans. It is in this regard that Samba Africa Voluntary Organization has put up a link with local organization in Ghana , which does a lot of work for the HIV AIDS Education and involves with community outreach programs such as educational programs etc.

About the Program

This Samba Africa Voluntary Organization project aims at preventing the transmission of HIV AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis to give better support to those who are affected by the disease. Volunteers in this project are mostly involved in taking care of people affected by the disease notably children and out reach education. What volunteers are expected to do: Orientation and training for the first week by local experts.

Volunteers working in the HIV/AIDS project in Ghana can expect to work daily between 8am-3pm including the following tasks:

• Community education
• Schools education
• Churches education
• Hairdresser's education
• Shoemakers/Cobbler education
• Markets/ Shopping centers education
• Lorry parks demonstration activities to increase the awareness campaign in the Ghanaian communities.
• Sometimes volunteers will engage in house-to-house education
• Volunteers will sometimes spend time with those affected by the disease, by helping them to take their medicines regularly as well as giving them care and comfort.
• Community education through drama.
• Volunteers shall reach out to commercial sex workers / prostitutes at red right areas with the message of abstinence and condom use. 

STARTS DATE: Flexible

Airport pickup info:

On the day (or night) of your arrival, Samba Africa Voluntary (SAVO) Staffs will be at the Accra Kotoka International airport to welcome you And transfer you to a hotel with Fan  or air-conditioned rooms and restaurant only in the night of your arrival, Orientation and transportation to your Assigned placement will be done the next morning following your arrival day but arrival in day time you will be transported to our office in Kumasi.

Weekends, are free days to volunteers. You may choose to travel out of town to see the many interesting sights and sounds in other parts of Ghana or hang out with your fellow volunteer(s) and/or locals in the neighborhood.

Weekend trips available include visits to Mole National Park in the Northern Region of Ghana. This National Park offers a great Safari-like experience and is one of the biggest Elephant Sanctuaries in Africa with the chance to spot Lions, Leopards & Antelopes in their natural habitat.
Volunteers can also take a trip to Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana to relax in the beautiful beaches and see the famous Cape Coast castle, the Kakum Canopy walkway and Elmina castle, where slave trade begun.