The Elim Cluster of Schools is a school located near the University of Ghana in the Madina area. Elim has a school population of about 800 students in the Primary and Junior Secondary School level. Community Service at the Elim Cluster of Schools would entail teaching a class with lower-level students in Math, Science, English and French. The school day starts at 7.30am and goes until 3.30pm. One day a week devoted to the school would be required, or a combined set of hours throughout the week. Students would be aligned with local procedures of instruction and also be responsible for monitoring the growth and development of students in the classroom.

New Horizon Special School, Accra Ghana is a purpose built establishment started by a mother with a handicapped daughter with the support of some parents and friends in January 1972. The school provides day school education for children and vocational training and employment for adults who are intellectually challenged. Persons with other disabilities eg spastics, cerebral palsy, visually impaired hearing etc are also admitted so long as their disability is a learning difficulty. Presently, over 140 students aged four through forty yeas attend the school.
The school is located in Cantoments, about 5minutes drive from the NYU in Ghana Academic centre.

Volunteers may assist in the following areas:

• Teaching music, singing or any form of craft
• Assist a teacher for half a day or a full day in the classroom in specific tasks
• Assist in administrative work or in making educational material under the Director’s supervision
• Assist with fundraising and public relations activities

The Morning Star School was founded in 1965 by the late Mrs. Esme Siribo. It began as a pre-school with seven pupils and jt has blossomed over the past years into one of the best first cycle Christian school in Ghana. The School has 1370 students enrolled ifrom kindergarten to the 9th grade. The school is located about 3 minutes drive from the Academic Centre on Labone Avenue.

Volunteers may assist a teacher to grade assignments, teach a lesson in English, Math and Science, Art etc or help out with any of the clubs in the school such as: School Choir, Gospel Band, Boys Scout, Girl Guides, Creative Writing, Needle work and craft, Pottery and Ceramics, Red Cross, Drama and Debate Flute Ensemble, Fitness Club and AFS.

The Seventh Day Adventist School is a privately owned and minimally resourced school located in Labone, about four minutes walking distance from the NYU in Ghana students’ residence. It is one of the very few basic schools in Labone attended by children from low-income homes.

It started in 1984 with a nursery and now has a population of about 800 pupils. The SDA School has a nursery, primary and a junior secondary school (similar to elementary school). The school has 57 academic and non-academic staff. There are volunteer vacancies at the primary level.

Mr. Yemoh, a Baptist priest started this school in 1965 under a shed for children whose parents were too poor to afford a basic education for their wards in the Labone area. The name “Yahoushua” was derived from the Hebrew word “Yahweh” meaning God is with us. Today, 80% of the student population is made up of pupils who are house helps to the rich local and expatriate families in Labone. The school was later adopted by the state in 1975.

The school is greatly under resourced and lacks common facilities. It is about three minutes in walking distance from the NYU in Ghana students’ residence. The population of the school is about 450 with 25 teachers and receives a lot of assistance from organizations like The Rotary Club. There are vacancies in the primary and junior secondary schools department for volunteers.

State School for the Deaf is a public school within the Ghana Education service set-up. The School was established at Osu in 1965 by Dr. Seth Tetteh-Ocloo who is himself deaf and is now in America. The school was then known as Osu Deaf Mission Center. It was later taken over by the Government in 1969 and was renamed State school for the Deaf. The school is currently located at Ashaiman near Tema.

The school has as its objective the education of the deaf who for their severe hearing impairment, their educational needs, appropriate educational programs and other related services cannot be provided in the regular school. The State school for the deaf‘ program begins at the pre-school level and continues through Primary to the Junior Secondary school (JSS). Essentially, the academic curriculum is the same as that of the regular public school programs. Strong emphasis however is placed upon language and communication. The regular academic program is supplemented and reinforced by a pre-vocational program. Currently, the school is made up of 230 pupils and staff strength of 42.

Volunteers could work in the vocational department, teach sports and offer basic computer training to pupils or even help in the drama and dance department.

Osu Children's Home is a community for orphaned, abandoned and needy children from ages zero to eighteen years. It was started in 1949 by an NGO known as Child Care Society. It was then located in the premises of the present Cripples Home at Kaneshie, a suburb in Accra, the capital of Ghana. In March 1960 the government took over and moved it to its present location. It was put under the management of the Department of Social Welfare and has been as such up to date.

Volunteers are accepted from all over the world. Supervision for volunteers is provided by the home. Volunteers are expected to assist in areas of:
• Teaching
• Taking children out for walks and places of interest
• Helping with home work
• Sports
• Creativity
• Mending of clothes, furniture, etc., painting
• Washing, playing and feeding of babies
• Providing love and attention

Help Age Ghana is an affiliate of Help Age International, which is an international non-governmental organization that addresses the hardships older people face because of society’s negative attitudes towards them.

In Ghana, and throughout Africa, many are abandoned and neglected by their families, and subjected to rape and physical abuse. Older women, especially widows, suffer more rights abuses than older men and are often accused of witchcraft. However, older people rarely report these abuses because of fear, and ignorance of their rights.

A project, supported by Development Cooperation Ireland, aimed to enable older people – particularly older women, to assert their rights and promote change in the attitudes, systems and structures that deny them their rights to property and access to justice. Help Age Ghana focused on raising awareness of older people’s issues and the abuse they often suffer, through activities such as:

• Radio plays on national and community radio stations;
• Advocacy materials, such posters, leaflets and radio plays, and a drawing competition for schools;
• Community meetings;
• Workshops with stakeholders, including parliamentarians, rights-based organizations, the media and older people’s organizations

The organization is looking for volunteers to help in diverse areas including data collection, creating and developing new concepts on aging for publicity, events organization and documentaries on aging issues in Ghana.

The West Africa AIDS foundation is a registered NGO, and a partner of the Ghana AIDS Commission. WAAF believes that in providing education, counseling, care and support for the purpose of inducing behavioral change in sexual norms of the populace that are known to have a high incidence of HIV/AIDS in Ghana.

WAAF provides a wide range of services including:
• Free Consultation/Counseling
• Treatment of Opportunistic Infections
• CD4 Count Monitoring and Assessment
• STD’s Treatment
• Immune Booster Treatment
• Bereavement Counseling
• HIV/AIDS related workshops

HIV/AIDS education Information:
• Condom promotion and distribution
• Workshops and Seminars
• Peer education training

WAAF also specializes in voluntary counseling and testing.

Volunteers and Interns are the West Africa AIDS Foundation's greatest resource. These people usually assist in the following areas:
• One on one visiting and support
• Preparation of brochures/newsletters
• Website design
• Home support and hospice care
• HIV/AIDS Education and Outreach
• Attending to patients in the clinic
• Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) field work
• Data Entry
• Childcare
• Staffing fundraising events
• Reception duties
• Clerical work

RESPECT Ghana is an affiliate of RESPECT International which is committed to raising awareness among international youth about refugees and refugee issues, encouraging activism among youth and further empowering refugee children and communities through letter and cultural exchange, through the donation and transport of education-related material aid. In line with the stated goals of RESPECT International, RESPECT Ghana is also poised to fully serve as the link between the international community and the refugee community in Ghana.

RESPECT Ghana has a team of volunteers currently running the affairs of the organization and has other volunteer experts who are contributing their ideas as to how programs and activities could be initiated to raise general awareness about refugee issues, to bridge the gap between students in developed worlds and refugee students as well as liaise with international affiliates to see how best refugees could be assisted.

RESPECT Ghana has also outlined a number of future programs and plans as well as its readiness to offer its rich human resource to work in partnership with any organization that seeks to be interested in refugee issues and matters relating to human rights and global peace.

OIC International is a non-profit, non-governmental organization headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has been working for 36 years in Ghana. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of low-income, disadvantaged individuals in developing countries through the provision of sustainable human resource development training and services and humanitarian assistance. OICI’s work in Ghana has focused on training the least-educated; most socially and economically underprivileged youth and adults in rural and urban areas and has aimed at increasing their incomes and turning them into productive, employable or self -employed members of their communities. OICI currently works in eight of the ten administrative regions of Ghana and designs and implements programs in the following sectors: vocational and technical skills, food security, agricultural, water and sanitation, maternal child health, HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, entrepreneurship and business development, and micro-finance.

OICI host volunteers from around the world for short and long term assignments. Volunteer opportunities exist in the following areas:

1) Public relations including website, newsletter, brochure, event planning & fundraising.
2) Grant research and proposal writing
3) Care and Support for PLWHA’s and Orphans-i.e. counseling, food distribution, skill training.
4) Education Quality Support for early childhood/nursery/daycare & after-school programs.

Since its founding in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International has built and rehabilitated more than 150,000 houses with families in need, becoming a true world leader in addressing the issues of poverty housing.

In Ghana, local and Global Village volunteers have built as many as 1,000 houses, mostly in neighborhoods on the outskirts of rural villages. The buildings are simple, made of mud-bricks mortared over with zinc or cement-tile roofing.

The houses would be built with no profit added and no interest charged. Building would be financed by a revolving Fund for Humanity. Financing of these projects come from the new homeowners' house payments, donations and no-interest loans provided by supporters and money earned by fund-raising activities.

Informed by the Millennium Development Goals for health, including maternal and child health, the Longevity Project for Africa (Longevity Project Africa) seeks to evolve as an effective umbrella organization for individual countries’ efforts to increase the life expectancy and quality of life of their respective populations. The Longevity Project in Ghana, registered under the laws of Ghana in November 2004, will serve as a pilot for similar initiatives throughout Africa.
The project seeks to solve health-related problems in Ghana including the following;
1.Life Expectancy in Ghana: 56-58 years
2. Quality of Life: fairly low due to relative ill health, low productivity and resulting in poverty.
3. Infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS (emerging epidemic)
4. Malnutrition
5. Maternal and infant morbidity and mortality;
6. Chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension,
heart disease and cancer..
7. Lack of awareness of dangers that bad hygiene, poor diet, lack of physical
exercise and chronic stress pose to our health and quality of life.

The project is looking for volunteers to help with the following;
1: Increase public awareness of link between lifestyle choices and health
2: Support health and fitness efforts
3: Fund continuing research to increase availability of scientific health data specific to Ghanaians or Africans
4: Reduce impediments/barriers to health and fitness
5: Generate and raise funds to sustain and strengthen programs.
All fundraising efforts will have the dual aims of generating funds for set goals and objectives.

The Foundation for Contemporary Art was founded to create an active network of artists and a critical forum for the development of contemporary art in Ghana. It exists to raise awareness of, and develop critical thinking within contemporary art in Ghana by organizing exhibitions, seminars, workshops and publications.

Housed in the WEB Dubois Center for Pan African Culture, the FCA is looking for volunteers with proposal writing and fund raising skills, curators and people to work on newsletters/publications. NYU in Ghana students have in the past volunteered with FCA and found their experiences very rewarding.

Global Media Alliance Limited is an International Communications Company founded in 1998 in South Africa. GMA is a corporate member of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA). The company is specialized in the provision of a broad range of communication services to clients including:
Public Relations, Political Analysis and Positioning, Corporate Affairs Public Affairs, Events Management, Media Relations, TV Productions, Corporate Documentaries, Program Distribution, Media Consultancy Services, Community Relations, Publishing of Marketing and Promotional Materials, CEO Reputation, Management and Crisis Management.

GMA promises exciting vacancies for interns/volunteers in events organization, newsletters/publications, CNN monthly reports on Africa, a new TV production dubbed “The Nation Builders” etc.

Micro-Finance and Community Development Organization (MFCDO) is a non-governmental organization committed to poverty alleviation, community development and small-scale entrepreneurship through micro-finance services. It works in collaboration with its Community Based Organizations (CBOs) involved in various forms of community work. Our principal implementing partner is the Open-Heart Solution Agency (OHSA), which has been practicing micro-finance and community development programs and seeking to promote the culture of savings through what is known in Ghana as “Susu. Susu” a savings mobilization from the informal sector in Ghana.

Other community-based projects include:
• Open Heart Solution Applied Computer Training Institute (OHSACTI)-offering computer training to refugees
• Women of Glory - offering skills training for Refugee women
• SEA de ARC, church based youth group
• Yaalex Investments providing micro loans and savings facilities through Susu
• Refugee Women Development Program- Network of refugee womens’ groups involved in skills training.

The organization provides opportunities for voluntary works, internships, study visits and other cross- cultural learning experiences.
Volunteers are likely to be involved in one or several of the following
• Susu collection among market women
• Administrative work
• Financial Records and Administration
• Working with women and refugee women
• Working among refugees
• Teaching
• Health Promotion: HIV/AIDS Campaign and Education
• Fund rising
• Project creation and management

The Trust Bank Ltd is active in International Trade Finance products, Loans and Financial Guarantees as well as in Retail Banking.

A member of the Eurafrican Belgolaise network, the bank has access to international know-how to develop an efficient partnership with its corporate customers. The Trust Bank has twelve branches across Africa, including Ghana.

The Trust Bank is the official banker for NYU in Ghana. Non-credit internship opportunities exist for students to work in the various departments of the bank to gain an overview of Ghanaian banking system:
Customer Service
International Banking
Treasury
Small Business Banking

KPMG is a global network of professional services firms whose aim is to turn understanding of information, industries and business trends into value. For almost 100 years, KPMG has provided very high caliber professional services to its clients. Today, having successfully grown to be one of the largest professional services organisations in the world, KPMG is acknowledged as a Global Leader in all forms of audit, tax and advisory services.

With significant professional strength and experience, KPMG today delivers engagements in scores of countries on all six continents. With nearly 100,000 people worldwide, KPMG member firms provide audit, tax and advisory services from more than 715 cities in 148 countries. KPMG has some 6,000 partners and 100,000 staff serving over 180,000 clients including 1,400 0f the world’s 6,000 largest corporations.

KPMG-Ghana is the oldest established international accounting and advisory firm in Ghana. Established in 1929, our clients include many multinational companies from all sectors of business. The firm also serves an impressive array of middle market and privately held companies. Our professionals have diversified backgrounds, a number with prior experience in industry, finance and other service sectors.

Our structure allows us to be very responsive to established, emerging and developing businesses. Our approach to engagements is centred on building a team that is multi-disciplinary to assist in quickly identifying the need for specialized input in dealing with issues affecting our clients. In this way our clients, no matter the businesses or activities they are engaged in, have their needs adequately served.
Today, KPMG Ghana is a firm of approximately 112 people including 6 partners and operates all over Ghana. KPMG has gained recognition as a leading provider of audit, tax and advisory services in the West African region.

The National Governance Programme is an independent organization set up by the government of Ghana to consolidating democratic governance in Ghana through institutional development; advocacy and facilitation of dynamic processes; and more effective co-ordination of governance partnership.

The National Governance Programme works in collaboration with the donor community, NGOs involved with governance as well as government institutions eg. The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, The Serious Fraud Office, National Commission on Civic Education, The Parliament of Ghana, Centre and Federation of African Women Lawyers etc.

Volunteers have the opportunity to work with most of these organizations to better understand how their work enhances democracy and governance in Ghana.