Our Ghanaian hosts have asked us for help in several areas:

• Education - teaching at elementary, secondary and vocational schools. Volunteers are needed to teach subjects including English, basic sciences and math and to assist at a community vocational school where women ages 18 to 25 learn catering, nutrition and home management. Education is considered to be the most effective strategy to combat poverty - long and short term. Your assistance has a tremendous impact on the individual kids, as well as their community and country.
  
  

• Construction - building, renovating or painting community buildings. Volunteers who can do physical labor - carpentry, landscaping, painting and masonry can be a very useful resource. If you can wield a hammer, swab a paintbrush, mix cement or lay blocks, you will be of tremendous help.
  
  
• Health Care: - providing public health education, child vaccinations and patient care. The United Nations, through the World Health Organization, advises that public health education is one of the most important prerequisites to good health. The small rural clinics in our host communities need professionals to teach basic principles of public health, vaccinate children, check blood pressure, perform basic physical examinations, and diagnose illnesses.