Description

Are you an animal lover, do you love working around animals tending and caring for them or do you just love to save the lives of animals in peril? Then this is the perfect opportunity to show your true worth. Working with veterinarians in private practice or in a clinic, or venturing out with vets who specialize in farm animals may just be the best opportunity and experience of a life time.

Highlights

You will have opportunities to work with the treatment of many diseases associated with the tropics. This may just be an eye opener giving you practical knowledge and experience. Whether you love to work with house animals, domestic farm animals or wildlife, this is just the right placement for you.

Intern Types

• Admin (Health Services)
• Animal Sciences
• Zoology & Wildlife Sciences

Languages

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish

Cost in US$:

550

Cost Includes:

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

Program Fees Include:

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

Credit Available

yes

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

• Animal Welfare
• Anthropology

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

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 2-5

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