Ghana
Overview
Ghana is known as Africa for beginners. It’s safe, stable, hot and lively. Homes are small and stuffy, so people are always out and about. A cultural mash-up, you’ll see women in traditional clothes chatting on cell phones and men in suits walking farm animals. You can explore historic slave forts, shop in bustling colorful markets, wander through rainforests, or laze on the hundreds of miles of beaches.
Cape Coast
Cape Coast was the former capital of British colonies in Africa and home to the largest slave-trading center in Africa. Despite its sordid past, today, it is a popular beach town that draws in many young adults for its tourism and volunteer opportunities. Cape Coast is a bustling city and home to over 100,000 people, yet holds a relaxed and personable feel.
Social and Development Issues
While poverty levels have declined in Ghana over the last thirty years, the disparity between rich and poor has increased and significant issues face the country in areas of education, health and natural resources. Women and children in rural areas have limited access to basic education and almost no access to higher education. Illiteracy stands at an alarming 25%. Preventable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS are taking a toll on the population. Further, economic growth has increased the exploitation of Ghana’s natural resources.
Projects
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Volunteer Abroad
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Description and Impact Unfortunately, Ghanaian society still has strong prejudices against those who have special needs or suffer from some type of learning disability. ...
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AIDS is not as widespread in Ghana as it is in other parts of Africa, but it is more prevalent in rural areas. Other STDs as well, go untreated because people don’t...
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Description and Impact It is extremely difficult to provide a decent education for the children of Cape Coast. Once you start venturing out into the rural villages of the...
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Description and Impact Meet local health care professionals. Experience clinics and see how a holistic healthcare system works in the rural areas of a developing country....
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Help Reduce Hunger and Unemployment in Rural GhanaOne in four young people in Ghana is unemployed and 27% of the population is living on less than $1.25 per day. Job creation programs are slowly reducing hunger and...
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Help collaborative health services deliver quality care to underserved populations in Cape CoastThe disparity between rich and poor is starkly obvious in Ghana’s healthcare system. Without access to good nutrition and basic healthcare, poor and under-resourced...
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Ecotourism and endangered species protection can go hand in handThe Kakum National Park is mostly undisturbed rain forest and one of the most visited national parks in Ghana. To insure that a balance is maintained between tourists and...
Intern Abroad
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Live and Breathe the Social System in GhanaThe Cape Coast Social Welfare Department is a government-run institution that oversees many community programs and organizations in Ghana, including: Community care, including...
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Description and Impact Unfortunately, Ghanaian society still has strong prejudices against those who have special needs or suffer from some type of learning disability. ...
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Description and Impact Rural poverty and the lack of access to opportunity are huge issues throughout Ghana, particularly for women. Without economic opportunities, and lacking...
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Growing need for good healthcare strains hospitalsWithout access to basic healthcare, families in rural Ghana face increasing rates of unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and risk contracting deadly, yet preventable diseases...
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Sanitation and Education Promote Stability within Settler CommunitiesProWorld has teamed up with a local community partner to create development programs in Ghana that give fledgling communities a sustainable start. What is the need? ...
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ProWorld partners with a local youth organization to help give local children and adults a better life through education. The organization's mission is “to help develop a...
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Doctors-in-Service is a healthcare company located just outside of Cape Coast, Ghana. It’s one of seven private health clinics in the area of Abura. The healthcare...
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Help support homeopathic and traditional medicine in West AfricaThe Praysbetha E-Homeopathic Clinic is the only official clinic recognized by the World Spagyric Homeopathic Organization in West Africa, following the practices of the Ghana...
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The Light House Children’s Home was established in May 2002 by Mr. and Mrs. Weber, a Canadian couple who once volunteered in an orphanage in Cape Coast, Ghana and decided to...
Study Abroad
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ProWorld Semester Abroad students will study at one of West Africa's premier institutions, the University of Cape Coast, with local and international students. The University...
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ProWorld Semester Abroad students will study at one of West Africa's premier institutions, the University of Cape Coast, with local and international students. The University...
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