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When you volunteer with IDEAS Ghana, your volunteer fees directly contribute to IDEAS Ghana’s programs that support women, men and their families to earn sustainable, healthy livings, and to participate in inclusive education. It is still very common for families in this region to eat only one meal a day, and make it last until the next day. We run programs that do many things, but one major aim is to enable female and male smallholder farmers to acquire land through traditional land ownership negotiation practices so they can grow more healthy food and provide basic food and nutritional needs for their families, beyond one meal a day. You will see the tangible evidence of the programs in action when you are here.
You also facilitate peacebuilding and conflict resolution across communities and you help empower and train Advocacy Agents to advocate for women’s access to productive lands, as women are traditionally excluded from land ownership in this part of Ghana, and this is a priority area for UN Women. Providing negotiated land access gives women land on which they can grow food for their families, generate an income, have peace of mind about paying school fees and health costs, and hope for their futures. You also support climate change resilience programs, tree planting, and inclusive outreach to schools across the Upper East Region.
Volunteer fees are based on the number of weeks you spend volunteering. When you apply with your start and end dates, we calculate the weeks from the day after you arrive and this forms the basis for your fees. We round the weeks down for 3 days or fewer into a new week, and we do a precise calculation for 3 or more days to the next week.
Weeks + Fees $US
1 week – $929
2 weeks – $959
3 weeks – $1,049
4 weeks – $1,169
Weeks + Fees $US
5 weeks – $1,289
6 weeks – $1,429
7 weeks – $1,549
8 weeks – $1,659
Weeks + Fees $US
9 weeks – $1,769
10 weeks – $1,869
11 weeks – $1,959
12 weeks – $1,999
Weeks + Fees $US
13 weeks – $2,039
14 weeks – $2,079
15 weeks – $2,089
16 weeks – $2,099
IDEAS Ghana volunteer fees include:
* All pre-departure support and Volunteer Planning Toolkit
* Airport pick-up and drop-off
* Overnight accommodation in Accra and air-conditioned coach to Bolgatanga
* Accommodation in Bolgatanga volunteer house or host family
* Daily transport allowance to/from the office: 20 GHC/day, which is the average return trip cost to/from the office.
* 24/7 support in-person or via phone, Monday to Sunday
* 24/7 emergency contact
* Help planning travel and itineraries around Ghana
* Visas
* Flights
* Insurance
* Meals
* Personal Expenses
* Travel around Ghana
We strive to make our volunteer fees affordable and we found that volunteers often prefer to prepare their own meals and/or buy from their favourite takeaway bar. You will find inexpensive food stalls, called chop bars, all along the road with basic meals of rice mixed with nutritious beans, tomato stew and a boiled egg starting at 5 GHC each (US50 cents) which means you can eat 3 meals for GHC 15/day.
Ingredients for cooking are inexpensive and Bolgatanga is one of the least expensive places in Ghana to buy food. You can buy 5 tomatoes (50 cents), 5 small yellow eggplants (50 cents), 5 oranges (50 cents), 1 small cabbage (50 cents), 5 small onions (50 cents), a baguette (50 cents) 5 bananas ($1) 5 eggs ($1) and a small container of cooking oil ($1) for $6 total. A pack of spaghetti is 70 cents. You can buy a cup of rice for $1. You can cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for $7 and still have spaghetti, rice, fruit and eggs leftover for other days. Or, you could buy a takeaway for say 50 cents for lunch and another 50 cents for dinner (10 GHC), and cook breakfast and buy fruit and other goodies you like. It is easy to live on less than $5/day or $35/week.
You can easily live on US$150/4 weeks if you are on a budget. Your out-of-pocket expenses for, say, a 12 week stay can be as low as $450.
You have your own cooking facilities. We help you shop and plan meals in week 1, showing you where everything is located, where the chop bars near the volunteer house are, what they prepare, and what ingredients you probably will want at home.
We have developed a fundraising pack for you to use if you wish to raise funds for your volunteering placement. You can download our fundraising pack here.
Head over to these pages to learn
* About Ideas Ghana volunteer program.
* Typical day in the life of a volunteer.
* How to apply.
* See programs in action.
* Ghana travel clips about travel in Bolgatanga and Ghana.
