Ghana is still largely a patriarchal society, with women often expected to become housewives or mothers from a relatively young age, resulting in a lack of financial independence for those women and a lack of gender consideration or contributions across a broad range of social and professional spectrums in general. Participants will therefore work alongside local GVI partner organisations, including the Parent Teacher Associations of local schools, the Ghanaian Girl Guides Association, and others. On this program, participants will work directly with local women and female students of all ages, via various engaging projects in the traditional fishing communities of Ghana’s Gulf of Guinea coastline. GVI’s projects in Ghana help these women to learn practical vocational skills, such as IT literacy, English language, business management, curriculum vitae writing, financial planning and more. Participants will assist in delivering practical workshops and ensuring that GVI helps deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: UN SDG 1, No Poverty; SDG 5, Gender Equality and SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities.
Health & Hygiene:
The work we contribute to across the globe remains important and new measures allow our participants to continue to join our programs and continue impacting positively on their world and the communities we work with. Changes to our existing protocols have been made by our health and hygiene team to strengthen our health and hygiene protocols and ensure that international standard safeguards are in place to protect our participants, staff and host communities. Please inquire for more information on the protocols.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
At our Ghana base participants will live in a guest house that was purpose built to accommodate volunteers. It is a two minute walk from the beach, with a garden full of colourful flowers and tropical plants, and sits within an attractive walled compound located in a quiet part of Kokrobite. Here participants will typically live in shared dormitory-style rooms, with en-suite or shared bathroom facilities. There is also a fully functioning kitchen, office and outdoor dining/meeting area.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided by GVI but you may wish to buy snacks, soft drinks or treats from the local super market. GVI will prepare most meals - a combination of local and international dishes - but you may be asked to help with cooking and dishwashing if required. For sustainability reasons, most GVI base meals do not contain meat or fish, but do typically include: cereals, bread, rice, stews, vegetables, fruit, salads, and some continental dishes.
Please make your GVI Program Expert aware of any dietary requirements you may have, including food allergies.
There are both local and international restaurants in the local area which you are free to enjoy at your own expense.
Due to the current situation you have the flexibility of changing the destination and start dates for this program at no extra cost.
Women's Economic Empowerment & Vocational Training
Assist Ghanaian women to gain freedom of choice, financial independence, and access employment opportunities through computing, vocational and skills-related training.
$896/week
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