African Volunteer Trip in Ghana

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Kirsten Rincon

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African Volunteer Trip in Ghana


Earlier this year, I had the privilege to dedicate one month of my life toward volunteering abroad in Africa for the first time. The country I chose to volunteer in was Ghana, which is located in West Africa. I volunteered as an English teacher in a school serving pre-school students all the way til 8th grade.

Throughout this docu-series, I…

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  1. A local would have done a better job. These types of volunteer opportunities are solely for the benefit of the “privileged westerners” and don’t help the actual locals at all.

    The people who are organizing these events are making a fortune of “bored” westerners like us who want an experience and the actual locals in need do not benefit at all. It actually harms the communities.

    I humbly advise you to do more research and not fall into this trap. Hopefully some of the profit from the fees you paid actually go to the development of the communities and not just into the pockets of the ones trying to make money.

    But I know deep down you do want to help so definitely research better ways to help 😅.

  2. So amazing, your joy is beeing trasnfeed to the watchers. Thank you fror sharing this wonderful experience.it's obvious all over your face that this volunteering trip left your heart as glad as to the children you showed true love.

  3. You talked about unpaved roads and how rural those places can be. I think i would have to explain this to you here. Land in Ghana is owned by the chiefs and their sub chiefs. These greedy chiefs (yes i called them them that), sell lands indiscriminately and wantonly. They could, for a buck,sell lands on water courses too. They don't plan out communities, provide basic infrastructure before selling out lands. This means gorvement would always be playing catch up in providing those basic infrastructure like roads, water and electricity. This loophole-i call it-makes communities like abokobi and others perpetually look underveloped.I wish all lands were taken away from these greedy chiefs and given to the state. However that would loose any political party an election, so the cycle would continue.