Volunteer

Volunteer With Us

Help in the UK

We’re always looking for people to support our UK operations – from admin and communications to event planning, fundraising or social media. If you’re organised, creative or just keen to lend your time and energy, we’d like to hear from you. 

Volunteer in Ghana

Some volunteers like to do physical work – build a school, for example, plant trees, or inspect latrines or farms.  Some like to work with our local staff, teaching health and hygiene or distributing infant food supplements. Nurses sometimes run little clinics for children – and so on. Some volunteers fundraise in advance for their projects and come to Ghana to help set them up or run them. All come at their own risk and provide their own insurance.

If you’ve got specific skills, we’re anxious to use them. People with medical training sometimes work at Dome Polyclinic or Mampong Asante Government Hospital, where they treat patients under the hospital’s supervision.  Some contribute in other ways – training staff in resuscitation techniques, rolling out patient monitoring tools, supporting public health screenings, for example.

Teams of specialists in eye health also visit occasionally. They screen hundreds of patients’ eyes and prescribe second-hand spectacles or recommend the patient for a free cataract operation. Many save up in advance to pay for the operations.

We also partner with companies to support volunteering placements in Ghana tied to project development. If you’re part of an organisation interested in exploring something like this, please get in touch.