​Volunteer in Ghana
​You can be a GMAD volunteer anytime.
Have an adventure. Make a difference.

Volunteering in Ghana is a simple
​4 step process

Step 1: Review the volunteer handbook

VOLUNTEER HANDBOOK

Step 2: Submit your application

APPLY TO BE A VOLUNTEER

Step 3: Complete your background check

BACKGROUND CHECK

Multiple Ghana government agencies that oversee the operations of our children’s home in Ghana require a criminal background check for all GMAD volunteers. We cannot approve you to be a GMAD volunteer without a clean background report. You will need to pay for this background check as a part of your volunteer application. The background check is provided by TruDiligence and includes a social security number trace, a national criminal search, a national sex offender search, and a Homeland Security search. The base cost of the background check is $11.49 and is for US Citizens only. If your background check yields no records, there will be no additional fees. If a record is found with a possible name and date of birth match, regulations require TruDiligence to request the real time record from that particular court. If this situation arises, TruDiligence will reach out to you to obtain permission to charge you the costs associated with the records found. You can decline to accept the additional charges and the background check will be closed as “Unable to Complete”. If you have any questions about the background check, please feel free to start a live chat via the TruDiligence website, send an email to support@trudiligence.com, or call TruDiligence at 1-800-580-0474.

Step 4: Pay your program fees

PAY VOLUNTEER FEES

Once you have completed steps one through three and after your application has been approved, in order to reserve your bed at the volunteer house in Ghana, you will need to pay your volunteer fees 30 days before your departure to Ghana. Your application is NOT FINALIZED and we cannot guarantee a spot for you in Ghana until you have paid ALL of your volunteer fees

What your volunteer fees include

• Lodging at the GMAD home in Ghana
• Food
• Meaningful service opportunities
• GMAD T-shirt 
• Airport pick-up and drop-off

What your volunteer fees do not include

• Passport and visa 
• Immunization and malaria medication
• Flights 
• Snacks
• Travel insurance

TRAVEL ADVICE
Here are some links to up-to-date Ghana travel advisories.
​We encourage you to check these out before traveling to Ghana.
U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Consular Affairs
Embassy of Ghana, Washington DC

Go on a life-changing adventure.
​Be a GMAD Ghana volunteer.

• Make a difference in the life of a needy child and change your own life forever
• Visit, care for, teach, play with, love, and serve vulnerable children
• Help operate, manage, and organize the GMAD children’s home in Ghana
• Help educate at the GMAD Academy of Learning. 
• Use your skills and interests: tell us how you would like to make a difference
• Live onsite with other GMAD volunteers from all over the world
• Travel around the world to equatorial Africa
• Discover a new world, live a new culture
• GMAD volunteers volunteer to work
• Work hard: GMAD volunteers work at least 5 days a week (long days)
• Play hard: 2 days a week are yours to explore the accessible beauties of Africa
• Live onsite: room and board is $720 a month
• No minimum and no maximum stay
• Read our Ghana Volunteer Handbook for details about volunteering in Ghana
• Become a Ghana Make A Difference volunteer – apply now

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