Grow Personally and Professionally

Whether you’re pursuing global health, education, or just a new perspective, SSL builds skills and accelerates your growth.

Make a Measurable Impact

Contribute to real projects: transform our library, collect health data, enrich learning for students, empower young girls. Your work supports long-term change.

Experience Ghana Beyond the Guidebook

Experience Ghana the way few ever do: far from the cities in a small village in a rainforest where you will build meaningful relationships.

Sessions

Explore Sessions

Transform a Library: June X - July X

How My Body Works Camp: July x- x

Child Development Evaluation: July X - X

Girls' Leadership Camp: July X - August X

Program Fee: $2,550

Included:

All in country travel costs including transportation, lunch, dinner and accommodation.

Program activities, workshops and field excursions
Visit to Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast
Pre departure guidance and 24X7 onsite support
Contribution to GHEI's year round programming

Not included in the SSL Program Fee: airfare, VISA and passport costs, vaccines and malaria prophylaxis, travel/evacuation insurance, breakfast (volunteers have preferred to get this on their own), and souvenirs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Fit and Application

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Daily Life in Humjibre

Apply

Apply to volunteer with us!

First name

Last name

Phone

Age

Gender

If you are a college student, where do you attend and what is your area of study?

Which session are you interested in? (note that each session is 2 weeks long and has a program fee of $2550)

Transform a Library: June 24 - July 8

Child Development Evaluation: July 10 - July 24

Girls' Leadership Camp: July 26 - Aug 9

How My Body Works Camp: Aug 11 - Aug 25

If you would like to volunteer for more than 1 session, write that here.

Why do you want to volunteer with GHEI? What do you hope to learn or gain from the experience?

What qualities do you think are important for volunteers with GHEI? Tell us about what you will bring to the team and our work in Ghana.

Are you interested in being considered for the Session Leader position? (note the pre-departure time commitment of 2-5 hrs/wk for 2-3 months)

Yes

If you are interested in the Session Leader position, please explain any relevant experience or personality traits that make you a good candidate.

Please upload your resume

A nonrefundable application fee is due at the time of application:

$20

After you submit your application, GHEI will email you with the status of your application within 1 week. Email us at communications@ghei.org with any questions.

Academic Partnerships

Faculty, student groups or students wishing to organize a group may contact Dr. Diana Rickard at rickard@ghei.org to discuss. We have had several partnerships over the last 20 years and currently partner with UCLA's pediatric residency program. Pediatric residents visit annually to do neonatal resuscitation training with providers throughout our district.

The highest priority in a partnership is identifying GHEI needs or community needs that can be met in a short stay while students can authentically contribute to our community.

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