Volunteer

Where Volunteers Make a Difference

Help Behind the Scenes (UK-based)

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 love to hear from you. We often post specific roles on Reach Volunteering, but many of our needs are ongoing and informal.

Volunteering in Ghana

We don’t run a general volunteering scheme in Ghana, but we have plenty of work for people with different skills.

For example, some overseas placements happen through our partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, whose graduates undertake work experience at Mampong Asante Government Hospital.   There they contribute to patient care – training staff in CPR, rolling out patient monitoring tools, supporting public health screenings and helping with clinical care in the wards.

We welcome teachers if they are prepared to stay for several months. 

It can take pupils some time to adjust to new faces and unfamiliar accents, so we don’t think it is worth teachers coming just for short periods, so we don’t think it worth teachers coming just for short periods.

Some volunteers like to do physical work – build a school for example, or fix up mosquito nets.  Some like to work with our local staff, teaching health and hygiene or distributing weanimix. 

Nurses often run little clinics for children, accountants work with our Microcredit Manager – and so on. 

Many 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.   

In the past, we’ve also partnered 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, we’re open to a conversation.