To contribute to the effective promotion of a healthy development for vulnerable children in the Ashanti region.

To raise local and global awareness of the lives of vulnerable children in the Ashanti region.

To engage a global community of young people with the lives...
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To contribute to the effective promotion of a healthy development for vulnerable children in the Ashanti region.

To raise local and global awareness of the lives of vulnerable children in the Ashanti region.

To engage a global community of young people with the lives of vulnerable children, empowering a sense of understanding and hope.
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Light for Children – Ghana is a non-governmental, child centered, development organization without religious or political affiliation.

Our concern is the welfare of vulnerable and disadvantaged children, especially those whom are HIV-positive. Many of these children face...
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Light for Children – Ghana is a non-governmental, child centered, development organization without religious or political affiliation.

Our concern is the welfare of vulnerable and disadvantaged children, especially those whom are HIV-positive. Many of these children face abandonment and social stigmatization, and lack the family support systems to take care of their basic needs.

Since our establishment in 2005 we have been working closely with regional HIV/AIDS clinics in identifying vulnerable children, assessing their needs and assisting them.
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Light for Children Volunteers will be placed in the Ashanti-region in child centered organizations. The Ashanti-region is known for migrant teenagers and has one of the highest HIV prevalence rate in Ghana.
1. Working at an Orphanage

Location: Kumasi, Banko or Abetifi...
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Light for Children Volunteers will be placed in the Ashanti-region in child centered organizations. The Ashanti-region is known for migrant teenagers and has one of the highest HIV prevalence rate in Ghana.
1. Working at an Orphanage

Location: Kumasi, Banko or Abetifi (Banko is a 1 hour drive from Kumasi, Abetifi is 2 hours drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

* Feeding the children
* Accompanying the children to school
* Arrange the children's beds
* Organize games and activates for the children

2. Working at school for mentally handicapped children

Location: Kumasi

Typical work:

* Playing games with the children
* Teach the children numerical
* Help the kitchen with preparing food
* Organize excursions with the children

3. Working in the children's ward at a hospital - run by the Seventh day Adventist Church

Location: Asaman (1 hour drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

* Orderly work
* Any work assigned by the hospital authorities

4. Working in the children's ward at St. Joseph Catholic Hospital

Location: Pramso (30 min drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

* Orderly work
* Any work assigned by the hospital authorities

5. Working at a school for the deaf

Location: Jamasi (45 minutes drive from Kumasi)

Typical work:

* Teach the children sign language
* Play games / interact
* Arrange excursions/road trips
* Work as teaching assistant

6. Teaching at a Junior Secondary School (J.S.S.)

Location: Kumasi-area and Mampong (size of village based on volunteer's request)

Typical work:

* Teaching English math and science
* Organizing excursions/road trips
* Playing games/interact
* Teach the children European songs (example: In the jungle, awwwiimbaweee)

7. Working for the Light for Children-Ghana Project

Location: Kumasi
Note: Based on the volunteers experience and request we can arrange a combination of work with the NGO's project and one of the other external projects.

Typical work:

* Weekly visits to the 'HIV positive children/children orphaned by AIDS' that are a part of the program
* Work actively together with local volunteer in the NGO to determine how best each child can get assistance-from the organization
* Write reports on the children's progress to their ‘adopters' in Europe and US
* Spend time in the afternoon to help the children with school studies
* Join the children on their visits to the HIV clinic where they pick up their ART (Anti-retroviral therapy, it stops HIV from spreading in the body)
* Participate in HIV/AIDS prevention meetings at schools and institutions
* Work at one of the HIV clinics in Kumasi (filing, counting drugs, interacting etc)
* Participate in different HIV/AIDS related committee/NGO meetings
* Join local volunteers when they travel and visit different Support group meetings for 'people living with HIV/AIDS' (PLWHAs)
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