Teach and connect with Busua community

After school program:

The students come to the building after school. You are present to receive and support the students with their homework. If necessary, you will provide lessons. This program is very important for the students. The children are eager to learn. They have the facilities in our building that are needed to get the most out of their educational career.

The After-School Program is one of the first programs we started running at the facility.  We have enrolled over 500 kids in the community for free. This program is focused on English, Math, Science and homework completion. We have tables red, yellow, orange and green where we assign students based on their class levels. We have added a reading comprehension class where students read and demonstrate their understanding of a variety of texts. Teachers and volunteers will also assist the students with their homework. We have worked with over 1000 volunteers both short and long stays to help educate the children in the community to allow them to perform better academically. The student results are amazing to see as their achievement is clearly reflected in their end of term exams.

Working Hours: Mon-Friday, 2:30-4:30pm

Activities: Organize, plan, assist, teach lessons, take attendance, tutor students and mentor.

Newshour program:

In the evening you watch the news with the children. We believe that it is important to learn from your own environment but also from the rest of the world. This makes you a world citizen. For that reason we watch the news and debate about it. In this way we want to teach the children to be critical of news and to form their own opinion.

The News Hour Program, otherwise called Neighborhood News Hour is a platform for students to watch nightly news with our volunteers. We discuss issues related to politics, economy, war, conflict, terrorism, climate change and things that are happening in the Busua community. We have managed to work with over 100 kids in the community providing them with the necessary support to understand what is happening around them and also the world at large. Volunteers help with difficult words and concepts to help the children understand and communicate what is happening in their own country and how it is different or similar to Ghana. 

Working Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:00pm-8:30pm

Activities: Organize, plan, mentor, explain big words, take attendance, select one student a week to present on a news story.

Photome (optional):

This program will start in the near future. We want to ask our future volunteer to think along to start this. There are several reasons why photography will have a place in our program. For example, a photo can tell more than 1000 words. You also see more by looking closely and observing. These are skills that we believe can teach the students a lot.

We are all familiar with the current trends in the world and the impact of photography in the social, economic and political spheres. Teach on the Beach has realized the need to teach kids basic skills away from the classroom. There is a need to have space for kids to be able to learn something new and be creative in the process. We have realized photography is fun and an art that can make a difference in the lives of people. Our focus is to provide photographs that is well organized in frames to families in the rural area as much as possible and in so doing their own kids will be in charge of taking the photographs. However, they will be coordinated by experts and volunteers.

N/B: This is a new project “PhotoMe” that is opened for volunteers and any photography lover around the world that wants to contribute to making an impact in society. 

Activities: Create a photo studio, teach, mentor, take attendance, prepare monthly reports, organize exhibition and raise funds. 

We always like our volunteers to use their own skills and interests. For that we can arrange something according to your wishes. However during daytime the kids go to school. We can arrange you to volunteer at the school as well. If you decide to come and support us, you do not need to bring any material with you. Of course all donations that can support the program are very welcome.  If you do want to give something to the children, we please advice you to buy something local. That way we also contribute the community.  You can expact us to be your partner, when you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate!