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Light for Children Volunteers will be placed in the Ashanti-region in child centered organizations.

1. Working at an Orphanage

Location: Aboase, Mampong & Kumasi

Aboase Orphanage
This is a school and orphanage set up by an Islamic man; hence a majority of the orphans are of muslim faith. The orphanage is brand new and is located just half out of Kumasi.

Mampong Baby Orphanage
This orphanage is situated in Mampong which is about 1 and 1/2 hours out of Kumasi. The volunteers at Mampong will live in Nsuta which is just down the road.

Missionaries of Charity
This orphanage based in Kumasi looks after disabled Babies, Toddlers and Teens.

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)