​Volunteer in Ghana
​You can be a GMAD volunteer anytime.
Have an adventure. Make a difference.
Volunteering in Ghana is as easy as
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* Read up on CDC's travel advice to Ghana regarding COVID-19 and move forward with your volunteer plans at your own discretion after reviewing these risks. 

Step 1: Review the volunteer handbook

Step 2: Submit your application

Step 3: Complete your 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.
PAY YOUR FEES
​Once you have completed these three steps 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.
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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🌐P.O. Box 55 Star, ID 83669
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MISSION

​We shelter children who have been rescued from forced labor trafficking, abandonment, or who have special needs until we are able to reintegrate them with their biological family or to place them in a new family.

We preserve families and provide a path to self reliance through shelter, life skills, education and medical care.
​Ghana Make A Difference is a 501(c)(3) organization; your donation is tax deductible. Our tax I.D. number is 45-5615778.