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Description

If your interest is in health care, this is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience in your field in a different culture where practices may differ considerably from what you're used to in your home country. There are a number of institutions who would appreciate your help. You could work in a hospital, clinic or teaching hospital, in any one of a number of departments. You can work in a variety of medical departments, where you can assist the staff. The type of work you will be allocated will depend to an extent on your own abilities and capabilities, which is understandable given that you will be dealing with patient health and safety.

You can help out in simple but practical ways, vastly increasing your own knowledge and understanding of medical practice, while on the other hand you will get a good general feel of the Centre by working and/or observing in most departments and you will be exposed to hands-on nursing work.
If you plan on specializing in a particular field of medicine such as; Nursing, Optometry, Dentistry, or any related field which is available, we can arrange to place you in a relevant department, to ensure that you receive maximum experience in your chosen field.

* To do a medical work placement, you will need to be either planning to study medicine or a medical-related subject, currently studying medicine or related subject, or working in a medical field.

Intern Types

• Health Sciences

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

550

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support

Cost Include Description:

Volunteers generously contribute their time and skills and pay a reasonable fee to help cover the costs of ongoing projects.

The Volunteer Program Fee covers the following items:
* Orientation Packet
* Lodging in Ghana
* In-country volunteer support
* Project-related expenses

To keep the overall cost down, volunteers are responsible for obtaining various items before departure. Dream Shelter Ghana will provide assistance as needed to help the volunteer in obtaining the following items:
* Travel medical insurance (including emergency evacuation coverage)
* Visa to Ghana
* Required vaccinations
* Airline ticket

In a cognizant effort to keep the volunteer program flexible enough to cover the needs and wants of all types of participants, volunteers are responsible for covering the cost of in-country ground transportation during their stay. Depending on one's level of required comfort, food and transport can be either pennies a day, or dollars a day. That is up to the volunteer to decide.

Credit Available

yes

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

• Community Health
• Nursing

Age Range

17-65

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Home-stays

Participants Travel to Ghana

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Typically The Application Process Time is

one week

Dream Shelter Ghana's Mission Statement

Dream Shelter Ghana (Ghana) seeks to eradicate poverty and gender inequality, by initiating various community development programs aimed at alleviating poverty levels in selected underprivileged communities irrespective of sex and religion, but more into girl child education. Agricultural production is literally under threat, that is why at Dream Shelter Ghana, we seek improvement in the agricultural sector as one of its main strategy in empowering the rural folk aside from education. Also apart from agric projects dream shelter also provides volunteer opportunities in other areas of interest to the volunteer ranging from teaching to fashion and football coaching. It must however be noted that dream shelter volunteer program is also aimed at students abroad who would want to enrich their resume with overseas work experience.

Year Founded

2007