Internship in Ghana

Extreme poverty, the growing challenges of HIV/AIDS and other different social problems leave many orphans in Ghana. These lovely children are in urgent need of adult help and support. In Ghana, IFRE partners launched an orphanage and street children program to shelter these orphans.

This internship opportunity in Ghana works to offer orphans room/food, education, encouragement and support. Unfortunately, many Ghana orphanage projects are without strong financial support, under staffed and face additional hurdles with trying to effectively run their programs.

Help is needed with every task: cooking and serving food to the children, assisting with their basic education and physical fitness (sports) and there is an immense need for English lessons, but the most important thing you offer these poor children is love and attention that they so desperately crave.

Resources for orphans are spread thin. Orphanage workers in Ghana do their best, but personnel are low and it is the face to face contact that these children desperately need. Love and support that comes from interns doing social work in Ghana are priceless! Many interns joining orphanage Ghana program as life changing and rewarding. This is the perfect project if you want to serve humanity or share your love, passion and time with children deprived of their parents love and care.

Skills/Qualification Needed

While there are no specific qualifications required to needed to join the orphanage internship in Ghana, you must be loving, caring and compassionate to provide much-needed assistance. Being flexible and patient as well will make you a perfect intern.

An Intern's Responsibilities

Interns working in Ghanaian orphanages generally show support by teaching English to children either in the orphanage or possibly in a local school. Interns are also welcome to teach other subjects like math, science etc. The orphanage requires extra pairs of hands to help with the day-to-day running of the project, so you will be expected to assist with cleaning, cooking and serving food to the children.

As a Ghana intern, you also help with organizing Physical Education/Sports lessons. You may also be required to assist the staff with counseling the children. The job responsibilities of orphanage interns in Ghana depend on the need of the orphanage as well as the skills and interests of the interns.

In the orphanages where the children attend a school, daytime activities for interns may include administrative work and helping with cleaning, cooking, gardening and physical maintenance. Evenings are fun times as you organize games, art activities, singing, dancing and other creative education and extra-curricular activities. You will be there to help with homework and encourage their academic progress.

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The demand of English education in Ghana is growing among teenagers and the younger generations. Unfortunately, opportunities for quality English education are not provided to public school students. IFRE interns help in government (public) schools. Through this project, students and English teachers in Ghana can participate in an exchange of ideas that often leads to a valuable dialogue regarding different cultures and teaching methods.

Our interns in Ghana who work with local teachers provide new and innovative ways to teach the English language from a “native speaker” perspective. This native speaker perspective is highly prized in the realm of Teaching English and can often vastly improve teaching methods. This fact alone creates a long-lasting, positive impact which can eventually benefit the entire community. Teaching English in Ghana is a very demanding but a highly rewarding internship position.

Note: Ghana has 3 academic trimesters a year: January-March, May-July and September-December. During the School holidays, we help to organize holiday classes for the School children. Your sight-seeing itinerary and work schedule may vary a bit during school holiday times.

FIRST SESSION

Start Date: 10th January to 12th April Mid-January to Mid-April

School Holiday: 13th April to 1st May

SECOND SESSION

Start Date: 2nd May to 4th August

School Holiday: 5th August to 12th September

THIRD SESSION

Start Date: 13th September to 15th December

School Holiday: 16th December to January

The school holidays are subject to change.

Skills/Qualifications Needed

In the Ghana English teaching internship, you may teach more subjects than just English. Math, science and sports classes may need assistance. NO specific skills or teaching qualifications are required. However, some kind of teaching certification or education degree is appreciated. A major in science, math or computer oriented classes is also preferred if you have no teaching education/credentials. Interns must have passion and interest to help children and improve their education.

An Intern's Responsibilities

Internship teachers in Ghana focus mainly on teaching English to local children in primary, middle or high schools. If you are skilled, you can teach math, science, or other subjects in Ghana. If you are a qualified teacher or have teaching experience, you can lead a class but mostly interns will be working as an assistant teacher. Most classrooms are crowded and the number of students ranges from 20-60 in each class.

All schools of Ghana follow a set English curriculum, so interns will teach straight from the textbook. The school headmaster provides teaching resources. You may come prepared with storybooks or any other teaching materials you think you might need.

School children in Ghana are very enthusiastic and eager learners of English. Although most of people speak English in Ghana, there are many issues with correct grammar and challenges with pronunciation, so your native speaker background will help many children change for the better.

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This eye-opening medical internship opportunity in Ghana is perfect if you are a medical student. You will assist the local nurses at the District Hospital with all aspects of clinical nursing and act as a primary health worker with the community nurses. Your duties may include working in the consultation rooms, medicine dispensary or operating theatre (operating room).

Other tasks may consist of helping with physical therapy, treatment of minor injuries, maternal assistance and childcare. Other occasional tasks may be assisting midwives on home-visits, verifying or recording patient's personal/medical information.

Skills/Qualifications Needed

Ghana medical interns who are interested in joining our internship health program must possess health care certification, such as a medical student ID, EMT or paramedic certification, or nurse or physician's credentials.

We do not permit interns without medical credentials to work in this program due to the potential risk. The hospitals require a copy of your resume, clearly documenting credentials and education, before your arrival to the project. Projects will also require an official copy of your credentials.

An Intern's Responsibilities

An intern's role can range from observational to basic assistance, dependent on education, skills, experience and qualifications and on the community’s current needs. Interns are not permitted to perform major exams or surgeries. You will work with a doctor or nurse, spending time in various departments of a busy hospital.

Departments you might support include Gynecology, Neurology, Orthopedics, Obstetrics, Pediatrics and Surgery. Interns may change bandages, take blood pressure and contribute to education efforts regarding about basic disease prevention. An important element to these internship placements in Ghana is learning about and being comfortable with a different culture’s healthcare practices.

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HIV/AIDS remains a serious health threat in many African countries including Ghana. Every year hundreds of adults and children are infected with and die of this killer virus. IFRE's partners work to advance adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention. Using the "Steppingstone" approach, they focuses on promoting behavioral change through facilitating discussions of HIV prevention and sexual health with community groups.

Community groups include youth groups in/out-of-school, clients at antenatal clinics and general community meetings. Interns are mainly involved with counseling and education. This project is open to any interns who are willing to share their love, time and compassion with the HIV patients and who are committed to supporting efforts to stop the spread of this disease.

Skills/Qualifications Needed

There are no specific qualifications required for this internship opportunity in Ghana. However, interns must demonstrate love and willingness to share time and compassion with people. A high level of patience and flexibility is mandatory.

An Intern's Responsibilities

As an intern working in Ghana, you may directly provide support and care to HIV/AIDS infected patients, including children, or engage the public with educational training and activities meant to increase awareness and stop the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Ghana. Several local NGOs work on HIV/AIDS programs which are focused on two areas.

First focus area includes: treatment, psychological counseling and support to whose people infected with HIV/AIDS. Interns within the scope of the first focus area generally visit with HIV/AIDS patients (along with a local worker) and distribute food, clothes, medicine and give mental counseling and support. You may provide basic but valuable tips to patients on health, nutrition and sanitation and you may be involved in keeping patient records.

The second focus area includes: HIV/AIDS treatment/awareness programs to increase the community’s understanding of HIV/AIDS, ways to prevent the spread of the disease and how to protect themselves from contracting the disease.

Ghana interns supporting awareness/outreach normally contribute to counseling and education in major hospitals and communities to raise personal risk perception among young men and women. Programs actively involve youth in participatory HIV/AIDS preventive education within the district. Interns may focused on outreach and awareness programs often visit many schools, villages, churches and present information and media, posters, distribute pamphlets and condoms, etc.

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