Welcome to the Ghana Volunteering Centre!
Ghana is the first English-speaking country in Africa to have a Volunteering Centre and is an ideal destination for the development and promotion of volunteering.
Find out all the information about the Ghana Volunteering Centre!
In 2019, with interrupted deployment during COVID between 2020 and 2021, France Volontaires Ghana had approximately:
Present in Ghana since 2008, the Volunteering Centre team assists volunteering stakeholders (volunteering candidates, dispatching and host organisations and volunteers) in defining and implementing their projects. This support takes the form of:
On a daily basis, the Volunteering Centre team offers services that include:
The Ghana Volunteering Centre has more than 200 partners working in different sectors. These include:
Before embarking on a volunteering mission or internship in an organisation, we encourage you to contact us to help you obtain information on the host organisation and the context of the country, as well as practical advice on how to prepare your project.
To contact the Ghana Volunteering Centre: [email protected] or +233(0)557360272.
Ghana is a country in West Africa with an area of 238,535 km². Ghana borders Burkina Faso to the north, Ivory Coast to the west, Togo to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. Ghana is rich in cultural diversity which manifests itself significantly between the north, the centre and the south with differences in cultural, economic and environmental terms (forests in the south, savannah grasslands in the north).
(Sources: Ghana Statistical Service)
Ghana’s climate is intertropical. It alternates between two periods:
In the centre, the rainy season is from April to October, while in the north it is from April to September.
Ghana is the second largest producer of cocoa in the world and ranks first in terms of possession of natural and mineral resources such as gold, bauxite, rubber and forest products.
National representative for Togo and Ghana
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Volunteer development support officer
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Administrative and financial manager
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