About Us
Heshbon’s Foundation is a registered local community based nonprofit and non-governmental organization/charity providing education and healthcare to vulnerable children and communiti in Ghana. Heshfound is working towards the betterment of rural poor communities in Ghana through volunteerism. It is established and designed to provide special needs of less privileged and marginalized children in Ghana with services extended nationwide with the aspiration to safeguard the disadvantaged children in Ghana through Education, Healthcare, Sports, Agriculture, Construction & Renovation, and Child Trafficking. Since inception, the organisation has hosted volunteers and interns from around the world participating in our education, healthcare and community development projects in Ghana. The organisation was founded with the goal of helping participants from around the world volunteer, intern and immerse in the culture of Ghana while living with a local host family.
Mission:-
To partner and collaborate with local and international communities to establish and empower underserved communities to develop frok their own based on self determination needs and developmental agendas.
At our school, volunteers help in a wide range of subject teaching including Mathematics, English, Creative Arts, Science, Computing, etc. This teaching program takes place in Nursery, Primary and Junior High Schools where volunteers initially either shadow or teach under supervision of a local teacher or independently especially those with teaching qualifications and experience. Volunteers on this program should be flexible as there are a number of other tasks they can help with. These might include helping children with their homework, arranging games and activities, cleaning the classrooms and assisting with administrative duties.
Volunteer Tasks includes:
-Assisting teachers to deliver lessons
-Work with smaller groups helping them with reading, writing, numeracy skills
-Design proper study modules
Program at a glance
Why choose us?
At Heshfound, provide a safe, supportive, and meaningful volunteer experience for our participants from around the world participating in our volunteer and internship work in Ghana.
- Safe and comfortable accommodation
- An extremely safe and meaningful volunteer experience with direct community impact
- Airport meeting and pickup and orientation
- 24/7 local emergency support from staff
- Transparent and affordable fees
- Town/village tour experience
- Safe and supportive placement for international volunteers.
- Trusted by international volunteers since organization inception
- Locally based organization offering supervised, hands-on experience
Requirements
- At least age 18 (no maximum age limit)
- Good English speaking, basic/intermediate
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong commitment to values and principles of volunteerism
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
- Ability to adjust to difficult living and working conditions
- Strong support and advocate for NGOs
- Should be able to work independently as well as in teams when there is the need
- Ability to respect and abide by the rules of the placement activity
No special skills are required to join this program. Just a compassionate, enthusiasm, caring, able to understand and communicate with children and bring bundles of energy.
Volunteer experience
Weekdays - A typical day would be as follows:
- 7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast at volunteer house.
- 8:30 AM Volunteers travel to their placement.
- 12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch break.
- 1:00 PM Volunteers resume work for the afternoon.
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM Volunteer placement ends for the day.
-6:30 - 7:30 PM Dinner at the volunteer house.
€125 per week
Volunteers live with a local host family and are accommodated in a dorm-style volunteer house in Ghana and you can expect to share a room with 1-4 other volunteers. Rooms are typically separated by gender, though we cannot always guarantee this because of varied occupancy and booking circumstances.
Living is basic, but comfortable and bathrooms are shared, consisting of western showers and toilets. Bedding is provided, but volunteers are asked to bring their own towels. Volunteers need to be prepared for times where there may be no electricity as the supply can sometimes be disrupted in Ghana.
The accommodation can host 10 to 15 volunteers at a time. Program is year-round with flexible start dates and duration.
Volunteers are provided with three meals per day, featuring mostly local dishes. Breakfast typically includes bread, eggs, fruit, oats, peanut butter, jam, and honey, along with coffee and creamer. These items are available in the kitchen each morning, where volunteers can help themselves.
Lunch typically consist of boiled yam with egg sauce, jollof rice with chicken, rice balls and peanut soup, banku and tilapia etc.
Dinner typically consists of plain rice and sauce, cassava, plantains, legumes such as beans, pasta, and french fries with meat or vegetables (typically carrot, sweet potatoes, peas, etc)
The meal plan aims to promote sustainable practices and healthy nutrition by using more plant-based foods. Volunteers can typically expect two meat dishes and three fish dishes per week. Please note, meals can vary depending on seasonality.
Please note that while the local team can cater for vegetarians, they are not able to cater to other special dietary requirement.
Volunteers have free time and are able to make the most of the gorgeous beaches, explore Ghana's historic castles and forts and other towns and villages, shop for souvenirs at the supermarkets,, or enjoy a range of adventure and outdoor activities including diving, swimming, wildlife viewing, and fishing. Volunteers can also hang around with other volunteers at the accommodation, read books, watch television or help your host mother with meal preparations while directly enabling you experience the rich culture of Ghana.
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