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Care and Concern for Humanity is a non-profit organization in Ghana that focuses on providing internship placements and volunteer opportunities.
It is registered under the Companies’ code, 1963 (Act 179), with registration Number G. 17,091

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

1.To assist the poor, school dropouts and the disabled in their communities through education and helping raise their social and economic status.

2.To organize voluntary programmes in communities that lack basic needs.

3.To empower youth in their communities to acquire skills to help raise their standard of living.

4.To support orphans and street children with food, clothing, education, health and shelter.

5.To organize public forum to create awareness in the rural and urban centers on health care, sanitation and sex education.


We support:
Grassroots Development: Grassroots approach is taken in all that we do, adopting a standard of living similar to those we are trying to assist.

Volunteerism: We give of ourselves and make sacrifices for the betterment of others, expecting nothing in return.
Community: Our volunteers work as a community, living together and supporting one another during the experience.
Self-reliance: Participants and members of the community work together to attain self-reliance.
Social Justice: Our efforts are directed at achieving social and economic justice for those in the developing world.

Mission Statement:
To be the mother of Orphans and street children, to enhance the sanitation improvement in Ghana, to be the leading training centre of Youth empowerment and inculcating the spirit of volunteerism among the youth and to be the leading volunteer Placement organization in Ghana and Africa as a whole.

Volunteer requirement: Is open to all, irrespective of Gender, Race, political, Nationality and religious affiliation. Age Requirements- 16 years and above

Languages: English, French and anyone who can speak a little English.

There are on-going projects to recruit and accommodate International Volunteers, these projects are Manual work projects and volunteer placement Programs.

Manual Work Projects: These are activities that involve manual labour directed towards community Development such as classrooms, Health Care Centres, Orphanages, community Toilets, community centres, Youth Training cantres, Digging of wells, Sanitation.
Farming Projects. Also included are Tree planting, Agro- forestry Projects such as Cocoa and Coffee Plantations Oil Palm Plantation, clearing of farmland, Food crops farming, transplanting of seedlings and harvesting of crops.

Volunteer Placement: Volunteers are placed in various fields these are schools in the rural areas and Institutions that cater for people with physical and mental disabilities. Hospitals, Clinics, Orphanages, Youth training Centres, tour centers, Cultural Practice Institutions and farms.


Current Projects: construction of classroom block, construction of Orphanage, farm to help the orphans and the poor projects, sanitation improvement projects, Orphans and street children support program.

Program Costs:
Volunteer Participation; One Month stay on a project is US $600 Dollars.

Cost Includes:
* Airport Pickup
* Orientation upon arrival
* Volunteer Placement
* Meals
* 24/7 In-country Support
* Accommodation
and administrative charge. .

Cost does not Include:
*Round-trip Airfare
*Return Trip to Airport
*Visa Fees