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. Women and children in rural areas have limited access to basic education and almost no access to higher education. Literacy holds steady at an alarming 75%. Preventable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS are taking a toll on the population and economic growth has also increased the exploitation of Ghana’s natural resources.
Projects
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Intern Abroad
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Description and Impact
As woman, it is especially hard in Ghana’s society to make a living and sustain oneself and family. This difficulty is significantly...
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Description and Impact
HIV/AIDS infection takes a huge toll on a developing community. A multi-faceted approach is usually the most successful in terms of...
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Make Healthcare Accessible to Rural Areas
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Twenty-five thousand people die every day in developing countries for lack of basic medicines that cost less than one dollar, and rural Ghanaian...
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Live and Breathe the Social System in Ghana
If you are interested in understanding how the social welfare system works in Africa, this is your opportunity to shadow the Cape Coast Director of Social Welfare and become...
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Description and Impact
This organization was founded in 2008 by a doctor with the intention of educating, sensitizing and creating a heightened awareness on the role...
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Help Reduce Pollution in Cape Coast
Description and Impact
This organization understands that for true change to occur there needs to be a self-help mentality throughout the community. There are so...
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Help Reduce Toxic Exposure through Analysis and Education
Description and Impact
With all of the humanitarian needs of Cape Coast it is common to forget about the environmental issues at hand. Environmental stability...
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This ProWorld project supports rescued victims of human trafficking and provides educational and vocational training. The transition of re-integration can be painful...
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This ProWorld project supports rescued victims of human trafficking and provides educational and vocational training. The transition of re-integration can be painful...
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Description and Impact
As woman, it is especially hard in Ghana’s society to make a living and sustain oneself and family. This difficulty is significantly...
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Live and Breathe the Social System in Ghana
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The Cape Coast Social Welfare Department is the principal advocate, coordinator and assessor of primarily all the community programs and...
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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 widows who lack financial support from...
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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,...
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Description and Impact
This organization understands that for true change to occur there needs to be a self-help...
Volunteer Abroad
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Help Reduce Pollution in Cape Coast
Description and Impact
This organization understands that for true change to occur there needs to be a self-help mentality throughout the community. There...
Description and Impact
Unfortunately, Ghanaian society still has strong prejudices against those who have special needs or suffer from some type of learning...Description and Impact
This organization was founded in 2008 by a doctor with the intention of educating, sensitizing and creating a heightened awareness on the...
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...
Give Kids in Ghana a Healthy StartDescription and Impact
With 83% of its children in school, Ghana has one of the highest school enrollment rates in Africa. This is directly possible through the...
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...
Description and Impact
Recently Ghana’s literacy rate has been on the decline; although it still hovers at around 50%. This international youth-oriented...
Help Local Farmers Plant and Harvest Their CropsDescription and Impact
Rural poverty and the lack of access to opportunity are huge issues throughout Ghana, particularly for widows who lack financial support from a...
Description and Impact
So much of West Africa’s cultural roots and identification can be found in the traditional drumming and dancing. It is more than...
Description and Impact
Meet local health care professionals. Experience clinics and see how a holistic healthcare...
Description and Impact
Economic problems, political instability and drug related violence prevent thousands of Ghanaian youth from reaching their full potential. The...
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...
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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...
Available Programs
Country Snapshot
- 29,000
Trees Planted
- 10
Countries
- 5,100
ProWorld Volunteers
- 22
Schools Constructed
- 6,100
Stoves Installed
- 18,450
Patients Treated
- 4
Centers Built
- $7,100,000
Capital Injected
- 860,000
Service Hours