Group Volunteer-Tourism Program
Opportunities for tourism abound in Ghana. Our Tours in Ghana program is in special interest tourism settings designed for groups of people who wish to do volunteer work or volunteer-internship as part of their visit and also want to do group leisure travels and tours as another part of their visit to Ghana. We call it volunteer-tourism. The program is ideal for groups of students on a limited budget and also for any group of special interest tourists. If you are part of a university, alumni, religious, fraternal, family, friends or a community service group, this program will be ideal for you. It will offer you a socially responsible travels and an affordable alternative to mass tourism.
Major tourist attractions in the Central, Eastern, Ashanti, Volta, Western and the Greater Accra Region of Ghana will be visited including the slave dungeons and the colonial castles at Cape Coast and Elmina, canopy walkway over the tropical rain forest of Kakum National Park, historic military museum at Kumasi, Kente craft village of Bonyere, West Africa's biggest tree at Akim-Oda, Tafi-Atome monkey Sanctuary, Vli Waterfall, Boti Waterfalls, Aburi Gardens, the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa farm, white sand beaches etc. Deer and Baboon Sanctuary, historic hilly ancestral homes of the Ga Adangbe tribe etc.
As a part of our special interest group tourism pertaining to the volunteer work programs, we include to it eco-tourism that focuses on local cultures, wilderness adventures, personal growth and learning new ways to live in our vulnerable planet. We focus on traveling to destinations where the floral, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions. Our responsible eco-tourism includes programs that minimize the adverse effects of traditional tourism on the natural environment, and enhanced the cultural integrity of local people. Therefore, in addition to evaluation environmental and cultural factors, our initiatives promote recycling, energy efficiency, water reuse, and the creation of economic opportunities for local communities. This is an integral part of eco-tourism. Areas of eco-tourism which we cover includes small group hiking, villages and beaches, culture and photo tours, traditional stories, historic sites, traditional drumming and dances, traditional houses, trekking, animal sanctuaries, nature tourism, exotic natural habitats, scenes of spectacular natural beauty.
We offer to volunteer-tourists 4 days tours if their period in our program is 7 to 14 days, 6 days tours if their period in our program is 21 days, 8 days tour if their period in our program is 28 or more days. The tours occur on the day of the arrival or a day after the arrival of the volunteer-tourists, Saturdays and Sundays and a day before the departure of the volunteer-tourists. We will be happy to welcome a group from 3 to 120 people. If you are part of a university, alumni, religious, fraternal, family, friends or a community service group, this program will be ideal for you.
Group Volunteer-Tourism Program Fee
The fee includes 3 meals a day, purified bottled water and accommodation of the participants during their volunteering period and the tours period. The fee also includes administrative expenses, airport pick ups and drop offs, volunteer placement, in-country orientation upon arrival, 24 hour x 7 days a week staff support, transportation during the tours, tour site fees, professional tour guide fee and other general support of the program. Participants make payment of their fees within 24 hours after their arrival in Ghana. It is payable in US Dollars, Ghana Cedi, Euros or British Pounds equivalent. The participation fee for each person in the volunteer-tourism program is as follows:-
(a) $1000 US Dollars for 1 to 2 weeks
(b) $1300 US Dollars for 3 weeks
(c) $1600 US Dollars for 4 weeks
(d) $1700 US Dollars for 5 weeks
(e) $1800 US Dollars for 6 weeks
(f) $1900 US Dollars for 7 weeks
(g) $2000 US Dollars for 8 weeks
(h) $2100 US Dollars for 9 weeks
(i) $2200 US Dollars for 10 weeks
(j) $2300 US Dollars for 11 weeks
(k) $2400 US Dollars for 12 weeks
Contact Us
Volunteer in Africa
P.O. Box 602, Osu Accra, GHANA, West Africa
Phone: +233-20-8731745
E-mail: ebensten73@yahoo.com
E-mail: voluinafrica@yahoo.com
E-mail: ghanaprograms@yahoo.com
E-mail: ghana@volunteeringinafrica.org
Website: www.volunteeringinafrica.org
