HIV/AIDS Education (Accra)

Project At A Glance

Location: Kasoa Start point: Accra End Point: Accra Duration: 2-12 weeks Hours: 30-40 hours per week Food: Local food (3 times a day) Room: Host family or hostel Date: First and Third Monday of each month

Project Summary

HIV/AIDS remains of the serious health threat in many African countries including Ghana . Every year hundreds of people including children are dying of this killer virus. IFRE's partners work to advance adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention. Using the "Stepping Stones" approach, they focuses on promoting behavioural change through facilitating discussions of HIV prevention and sexual health with community groups, including youth in- and out-of-school, clients at antenatal clinics, and general community meetings. Volunteers mostly involve in Counselling and Education . This project is open to any volunteers who are willing to share their love, time and compassion with the HIV patients.

Skill/Qualification

There is no specific qualification required to volunteer in this project. However, volunteers must possess love and willingness to share time and compassion with the people with great patience and high flexibility.

Volunteers responsibilities

Volunteers take care of HIV/AIDS infected kids and people and get them engaged in educational and training activities meant to increase awareness and stop the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Ghana . Volunteer mostly involve in Counselling and Education in a major Hospitals and Communities also to raise personal risk perception among the youth, men and women by involving them actively in participatory HIV/AIDS preventive education in the District/AIDS.

Room/Food

IFRE arranges room, food, and supervision for volunteer from the start to the end of program. During first, week of language and cultural program, volunteers stay in our hostel or with host family in Accra .  Our host family in Accra is located 6 kilometers from the heart of city also giving easy access to volunteer to all part of city.  Our host family cooks Ghanaian foods which include Fufu, Banku and Yam for you. As a part of language and cultural program, you will also learn how to cook Ghanaian food.

During volunteering period, volunteers stay in host family. However, volunteer joining orphanage project will stay with kids in hostel. We arrange a separate room and share bath for volunteers both in host family and hostel.  You can find the details of arrangement for room/food in placement sheets.  IFRE have in Country Coordinator and Staffs in Ghana to supervise and help volunteers. However, volunteers working far from our local office will be visited or will be on telephone contact regularly.