Teaching and fun in summer schools - Ghana

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Children in Ghana have school holidays during from the beginning of August until the middle of September. Unfortunately many of the children are come from poor families and have little scope to entertain themselves during the Summer holiday.

So if you've got nothing planned, and you have anything from a couple a weeks or longer free in the summer, why not come to Ghana and have fun with the kids!

This is a special Summer project which Travellers is setting up to give the kids some something to do during the holidays that will be fun for them and won't cost them a penny. The idea is to keep them entertained and perhaps teach them some skills at the same time.

What's included...

One of the obvious activities will be sports - as many varied sports as possible - plus various other children's activities, such as:

• Any ball games, like Football, Cricket, Basketball, Rounders or Netball
• Frisbee games
• Dancing - Ghanaians love to dance, so putting together a dance concert or dance competition would be fun
• Drama - Informal Drama productions is another activity that can be initiated - and all kids love play-acting!
• Music - teaching them to sing, to play an instrument and perhaps to put together a concert to be performed at the end of the holidays
• Magic tricks, juggling or circus-type activities
• Simple games like hopscotch, skipping, hula-hoops.
• Arts and Crafts
• Any creative activities, like face painting
• Reading from story books
• Or anything else your imagination can dream up that will amuse the children.

Plus the kids will be learning to use English at the same time, so they'll not only have fun, they'll also benefit from the activity. These activities will also benefit the children by improving their team-work skills, social interaction and building their confidence.

The Summer Fun School will take place in the grounds of one of the local schools in Kwabenya and will be for children from all around the area, including other schools in the community. Kwabenya is a small town/suburb about forty minutes drive outside Accra city centre and a place where many of our teaching volunteers are based.

You may work for only a few hours a day, or you may find that you want to devote more time to the children.

The school will remain open during the holidays because they are also running extra-curricular academic lessons for the children who need them.

You will be left very much to your own devices, therefore being creative is very much a must. You may work with large or small groups of children, so you need to be diverse and organised, but you are encouraged to utilise any skills or passions you have, whether these are playing sport, music, drama or just games. You’ll be rewarded by how much fun the children will have!

Accommodation:

Accommodation will vary, depending on your work location. You may live in comfortable guest house accommodation, but you will most likely live with a host family. This means that you get to eat, sleep, work, socialise and generally live like a Ghanaian. Local family stays enable you to fully experience the local culture from the inside.

Many of our volunteers remain friends with their host families long after they leave Ghana and in some cases they return to the country later especially to visit their family. Sometimes members of their Ghanaian family have even gone to visit them in their home country.

Food:

Food will be local cuisine - again this is to enable you to fully experience living as local Ghanaians do.

Travellers' placements are very flexible & can be combined with any other Travellers placement & tailor made to your own requirements!