Volunteer teaching

The nations particularly the villages are in dying need of teachers. Many elementary schools in the remote villages have at times only one qualified teacher handling the school. Because many rural folks are unable to speak and write the english language, they are unable to assist the few teachers posted to the village. This has called for a great need of volunteers who can speak and write english to assist these communities.

Volunteers shall teach basic english and mathematics, others may include sex education, family planning, introduction to computers, games and physical education. You don't need to be a certified teacher to volunteer. If you can read and write and is 17years and over, you are qualified to volunteer as a teacher. Please seriously give it a thought and apply today to volunteer. The age of the students a volunteer will handle depends on the class but for Basic, ranges from 10-15years and Vocational ranging from 15-21years.
We are looking for more volunteers, the role of the volunteer goes far beyond assisting teaching. Children are attracted to school by the presence of volunteers and your presence also is a proven moral booster for parents and the limited teachers as well as a great inspiration for students. Help us at least to keep the children in classrooms.

Volunteer's responsibilities

• Prepare lesson notes
• Organize learning materials
• Develop a teaching method
• Teach classes through lecturing, discussions and demonstrations
• Discuss output and methods with fellow teachers and supervisor
• Access the performance of the students through work assignments, etc
• Organize recreational games with students

Program objectives

• First to help us keep the children in the classrooms and interested in coming to school each day.
• To compliment the effort of stakeholders to offer proper education to all as a policy of mitigating poverty, violence and crime
• To help the deprived acquire better and competitive education to pursue further studies and jobs aside the farming and hunting persistent in such areas
• To encourage the children and their parents to attend school. Due to the lack of teachers, students' performance has been nothing to help them pursue further studies or some other jobs. After the elementary education, the end up in the same old form of sustenance so the parents and even the youth see school attendance as a waste of time and chose to rather follow their parents to farms and hunting. By offering volunteers into these communities, lack of teachers will be managed whiles quality education shall be offered these children
• To create an enlightenment and evolution of the cultures and traditions practiced by the communities to accommodate norms and policies that will open them up for development. This will be made so through the exchange of culture that will take place between the volunteers and the residents of the communities/villages
• To help Elghana offer scholarships to brilliant but needy students in such communities for further studies through the reports of volunteers
• To enable Elghana receive proper problem assessment of the villages/communities to further enable us direct the right programs into the communities
• To offer volunteers a pure experience of the culture and traditions of the communities. The communities in the cities have seen their cultures transform into a cosmopolitan thus the experience of true culture and traditions of the people is found in these villages only.
• To offer the volunteer an opportunity to make a positive contribution into the live of a disadvantaged to satisfy his/her social conscience.
• To promote twin-city relations between the communities of volunteers and that of the deprived but rich in culture.

Program Duration and Dates Program is opened to volunteers all year round. Volunteers can spend from two weeks to as six months on the program. A night in the capital upon arrival (sometimes due to problems like your luggage being left behind by the airline, staying in Accra or Nairobi may be go beyond a day), orientation by Elghana to offer volunteers education on the culture, traditions and sensitivities of the people in the community of work, basic local language syllabus and how to go about things in the community in terms of food, water, socialization, etc. The pre-departure information will be enough an orientation for participants who intend to spend a month or less on a placement

Who can volunteer?
Anybody can volunteer in this program as long as you are 15 years or more, regardless of your profession, skill or experience. All you need is the will to contribute to the lives of these communities. You can volunteer as a group or an individual. Your service is highly needed.

How will you benefit from volunteering in this program?

• You will discover more about yourself which will definitely help you in making many vital decisions
• You will experience a true and pure culture of a different kind in this same world
• You will enhance on your knowledge on life, society, politics and problem solving skills and approach.
• You will be proud of yourself for doing something very positive in your own means to change the life of someone.
• It shall be such a great adventure and break
• It will definitely be something new for you which you shall keep and treasure with passion
• Another opportunity to find a lifetime friend very far away from home and with a different perspective of life which offer us some good at times, especially when we want somebody to speak to about problems and ideas for solutions.