Included

• Airport pickup and drop-off at Kotoka International Airport, Accra – both directions, which is not the case on most of our programmes
• Accommodation at the volunteer house for your whole stay
• Breakfast and dinner, cooked in-house
• Welcome meeting and orientation
• Your placement at the school, and coordination of the work
• 24-hour in-country support and a long-standing local team
• Comprehensive pre-departure information
• Certificate of participation, on request

Not included

• Flights
• Travel and medical insurance – mandatory, available through us at extra cost
• Visa and vaccinations. Ghana is not a visa-on-arrival country for most passports, so apply at a Ghanaian embassy well ahead, and yellow fever vaccination is required for entry
• Lunch, and meals outside the volunteer house
• Daily travel to the project, public transport and any extra transfers
• Personal spending and weekend travel

A one-off application fee of USD 249 applies on top of the programme fee. It is valid for a year, so a second programme inside that window carries no further application fee, and returning volunteers get USD 50 off. Programme fees can be split into interest-free instalments, with the balance due 45 days before departure.

Airport pickup from Kotoka International Airport in Accra (ACC) is included, and so is the drop-off at the end of your programme – worth noting, as return transfers are charged extra on most of our other programmes.

A member of the local team will meet you on arrival and take you to the volunteer house in Teshie Nungua, roughly a 25-minute drive. Orientation runs the following day, after which you will be taken to your placement school and introduced to the staff you will be working with.

If you are already in Ghana or arriving overland, pickup can be arranged from an agreed meeting point instead – confirm your plans with the team in advance.

Before you fly: most nationalities need a Ghanaian visa arranged in advance, and proof of yellow fever vaccination is required at the border. Start both early.

You stay at the volunteer house in Teshie Nungua, a lively suburb on the eastern side of Accra. It is a modern six-bedroom residence about 25 minutes from the airport, 20 minutes from the city centre, and a fifteen-minute walk from the nearest beach.

Rooms have two bunk beds each and are air-conditioned, with four toilets and three bathrooms between them, running water backed by three reservoirs, and a fully equipped kitchen. Communal space is the point of the place: a large compound, a shaded chill-out area, a spacious living room, two satellite TVs with internet, table tennis and a PlayStation. Wi-Fi is free throughout.

The house takes up to 30 volunteers and interns at a time, from all over the world, so you will not be short of company or of people to travel with at weekends. Security is taken seriously – a fenced wall, cameras at the gate, on-site security staff, and the nearest police station five minutes away.

Every placement school used on this programme is within walking distance of the house.

Breakfast and dinner are provided at the volunteer house and included in your fee. They are cooked by Makella, the house chef, who handles both Ghanaian and international dishes – so expect jollof rice, red red, groundnut soup and banku alongside more familiar food if you want a break from it.

Lunch is not included. Most volunteers eat near their placement or back at the house; either way it costs very little. Street food in Accra is excellent and cheap, and the kitchen is fully equipped if you would rather cook.

Vegetarians and volunteers with allergies or other dietary requirements are straightforward to accommodate – note it on your application form and tell the house team when you arrive. Drink bottled or sachet water rather than tap water; both are sold everywhere.