General Teaching Posting (Accra)

  Ghana

• Accra: 
Accra

Durations of Program: 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months and 1-2 years
Typical Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks

Description: JAC is looking for volunteers with knowledge and skills in the following fields for ongoing projects:

- Art & painting
- Art therapy
- Book publishing
- Creative writing
- English Language
- General Subjects
- Graphic Design & Information Communication Technology (ICT)
- Mathematics
- Modelling
- Photography (using darkroom facility)
- Science
- Theatre-dance, drama & music
- Video & TV production

Volunteers will be teaching and assisting in coordinating workshops for children and youth ages (12-17) in groups of 10-25 in any area of the arts for which they are specialized. The volunteers would be involved in workshops, productions and exhibitions with the children and youth of Junior Art Club. Specifically, the volunteer would be involved in all ongoing workshops organized in their areas of interest listed above. All JAC projects are carried out with specific goals defined to achieve within a time frame.
JAC also helps volunteers learn other art and craft forms from very skilled artists of JAC who are always ready to collaborate with counter parts from different cultures as interns.

Qualifications: All our teachers and volunteers only need to be people with an arts background. You don't need to have gone to college. The core skills required are motivation, enthusiasm, creativity and commitment. Projects are carried out in English. Basic certificate in 'A' level or higher is always welcome. What we need are people who care and can work with children and youth.

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: Contact us for more information.

Experience Required: no

Age Range: From 17 years

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Ghana Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Resume
• Written Application

Abusua Foundation's Mission Statement: Abusua Foundation exists to create opportunities for young people to learn, share and develop skills necessary for personal and communal wealth. Abusua Foundation is a youth led non-government organization that focuses on youth development as a means of securing equal rights across society. The foundation's mission is to work with and mold the individual who takes care of others without discrimination; and to learn through all good means available to us towards impacting, sharing and shedding knowledge in the empowerment enterprise.

Year Founded: 2003