Volunteer Abroad Application for G-lish Ghana

Please email this application at least 60 days prior to your intended departure date. A note on filling out this application: You can type over the lines, save and send us your application as an attachment. If you need more space, don't worry about creating extra pages. Or, print the document, hand-write your answers, scan and attach your scanned application. If handwriting, please write neatly!

Your Contact Details:

Surname: Legal Address: City/Suburb: State/Region: Phone: Emails: Nationality: Country of Residence (if different from nationality): Current Address (if different from legal address above): City/Suburb: State/Region: Postcode/Zip: Country: Gender (Please Underline): Female / Male Postcode/Zip: Country: Mobile/Cell: First Name(s):

How did you learn about G-lish Foundation? (e.g. Google search, friend):

Volunteer Abroad Travel Planning

Program duration (in weeks). Please indicate how many weeks you wish to volunteer for. Most projects last 3-16 weeks, depending on your interests and time: Preferred start date: Preferred end date: Have you volunteered before? Please provide a short summary of your volunteer experience:

In which countries have you traveled outside your home country? (This helps us anticipate your support needs in Ghana): Have you traveled on the African continent before? If so, where? For how long?:

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Skills Self-Assessment
This self-assessment helps us identify volunteer positions that suit your skills and experience. After receiving your application, we will contact you to discuss your project preferences. This helps us plan our projects and helps you prepare for your volunteer experience. We appreciate your time and commitment on this section.

Instructions
Please write the number that best suits your skill level next to each item in the fields below. Your hobbies and life experience are of as much interest to G-lish as your professional skills. Please be honest about your skill levels so we can best match you with our projects for a productive volunteer experience. If you have no skill/experience, don't worry. We're interested in what you can do and what you prefer to do.

On a scale of 1-5, please rate your skill level in each of the following Skills Fields: 1 = Beginners skill/experience 2 = Beyond beginners, but not fully developed 3 = Competent skill/experience 4 = Regularly practicing professional standard 5 = Expert: more than 5 years experience
Please type the number that reflects your skill level in the box next to each item. If you have no skill/experience, leave it blank and only fill those in which you do.

Business Support Skills Sets

Accounting Developing annual reports Small business basics Teaching small business to others New market research New market access strategies Business consulting Monitoring and evaluation processes World Fair Trade Org principles Fair trade monitoring Fair trade evaluation Import/export planning and process Supply chain analysis Organizational development

Eco-tour and Environmental Skills Sets

Tour planning and guiding Travel market research Horticultural skills Nursery (seedling) operations Forestry planning skills Knowledge of Sahelian soil conditions Environmental impact assessing Cultural travel research Environmental economics Climate change science Climate change impact in West Africa Recycling and waste management Cradle to cradle design philosophy Climate change adaption strategies

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Health, Youth and Education Skills Sets

Nutrition and diet Herbal medicine Yoga/osteo/chiro/physio Communicable disease prevention Hygiene and sanitation Tropical disease knowledge Health workshop training or teaching Working with children (bonus if you have raised your own children!) Teaching children or teens Summer/school camp leader Learning disabilities educator Learning disabilities assessment Educational counseling skills General personal organisational skills

Conflict Resolution Skills Sets

Mediation Group conflict resolution workshop facilitation Teaching anger management techniques Teaching active listening techniques Domestic violence counseling Intra-cultural conflict resolution Cross-cultural conflict resolution Train the trainer workshop delivery Traditional African conflict resolution practices Establishing anti-violence networks Liaising with external support networks Domestic violence prevention Teen violence and abuse counseling Alcohol/addiction counseling

Creative Skills Sets

Visual illustration: digital Visual illustration: non-digital Digital photography Digital film making Digital film editing Weaving and/or fiber arts Any other artistic medium* * Please type which artistic mediums: Art/design teaching Gallery operations Business report writing Blogging and online/SEO writing Creative writing Grant writing Social media strategies

Software Skills Sets

MS Word Ms Excel Apple Mac Applications HTML CSS Wordpress Other software specialisation **** ** Please tell us which other illustration software you can use: Http://g-lishfoundation.org/volunteer-in-africa Volunteer Abroad Application Form Page | 3 Windows systems Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Other illustration software ** Video editing software *** Other photo editing software ****

*** Please tell us which video editing software you use: **** Please tell us which other photo editing software you use: ***** Please tell us of any other software specialisations:

Other Skills and Abilities: General Teaching and Training experience which may support your key skills above
Group workshop facilitation Personal tutoring Workshop planning and development Creating teaching manuals Please list subjects taught, if applicable. Primary (elementary) school teaching High school teaching Technical college teaching University/college teaching

Project Preferences
This is where it all comes together. In this section you tell us which Fields you would most like to work in, and which specific skills you would like to use during your volunteer experience. Please list your preferred Field, eg. Business Support. 1st is your favourite, 4th is your least favourite. Then name a Specific Skill, eg accounting/finance. Feel free to list the same Field, eg. Business, for each preference if you're really keen on volunteering in that Field. Alternatively, feel free to list any Fields according to your interests and abilities, from 1st - 4th preference. This helps us match you with the most suitable volunteer position. And sometimes we receive a number of applications in the same skill area so this helps us better balance project flow as well. The six main Skills Fields, as per the Self-Assesment above, are: Business Support / Eco-tour and Environmental / Health, Youth and Education / Conflict Resolution / Creative / IT Skills Field Business Support Specific Skills You Wish to Use New market research Any comments about this I work in international business and this is my main area of expertise.

Order of Preference Example My 1st preference My 2nd preference My 3rd preference My 4th preference

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Any Other Skills We Have Not Mentioned?

If you have skills that we have not listed here, but you think might fit one of our program areas, please let us know in a few lines and we will consider how we can match this with our core programs and volunteer positions.

Employment
Please attach a separate CV with your application. If you rated yourself a 5 or 6 in any of the skills above, please explain your professional or expert experience here.

Education Please give brief details about your eduction

Level High School Technical College University PostGraduate Name of School Core Subject/s Graduated

Motivation
Please write a short description about your main motivation for traveling to volunteer in Ghana?:

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Volunteer Abroad Fees

G-lish Volunteer Abroad Fees
Why volunteer fees? Volunteer fees help cover G-lish Foundations operating costs so that we can continue to carry out projects and activities in our main program areas. Fees help cover programs such as tree planting and the Tree Bank Project, and programs that dont generate their own income such as conflict resolution and health training, working with schools in Green Clubs projects and with special needs children. Volunteer Fees help cover the cash-flow gap in production, which can last several months. Fees therefore allow us to cover costs, to produce more baskets and to work with more rural families and more weaving communities. Volunteer fees help us better fulfill our mission to create income generation streams for women and youth in impoverished rural communities and to regenerate the degraded environment.

Table of Fees

Your volunteer fees cover:

Airport pick up and drop off in Accra In-country orientation which takes place during your first week in Ghana Transport to your project Accommodation in a dedicated volunteer house with a comfortable bed, mosquito net, cupboard and your own shared bathroom Drinking water at home and in the office A G-lish basket of welcome goodies In-country support with G-lish staff and team leaders throughout your project. Our popular travel guide to Ghana

Please check www.oanda.com for currency conversions. If you are checking Ghanaian currency, use the Ghana New Cedi option.

You will be responsible for your:

Airfare, visa, and travel insurance Vaccinations and medicine Personal travel within Ghana Own meals. This makes for easy budgeting as you can eat quite cheaply in Ghana, and this helps vegans, vegetarians and anyone with special dietary requirements.

Please check if youre interested in staying with a host familyyou can change your mind before you make any commitments, this just helps us plan for the time being. Staying with a host family costs an additional US$150 per month. Im interested in staying with a host family when I come to volunteer with G-lish Foundation.

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Acknowledgment of the need to acquire medical insurance coverage I acknowledge that I must obtain an insurance policy specifically for travel and medical emergencies before I come to Ghana which covers the duration of my volunteer stay. This is compulsory and important in case I should need emergency travel or medical emergency services while in Ghana. This is a standard requirement for international volunteer programs.

Signature:

Date:

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Email your signed application form to volunteers@g-lishfoundation.org, godwin@g-lish.org and cc: young_consultants@bigpond.com (our back-up in Australia). You do not have any obligation to make any payments when you send your application. We will inform you whether your application is successful within the next two weeks. During that time we will contact you to discuss volunteer positions with you or to clarify any part of your application.

G-lish Volunteer in Africa Package

If your application is successful, we will request a deposit of US$150 to keep your volunteer position since places are in demand and limited. This deposit is non-refundable and this amount will be deducted from your total fees balance. Once we receive your deposit, we will email your G-lish Volunteer Package. This includes: Volunteer Project Outline: A 1-2 page document detailing your volunteer position. A budget planner showing 2 typical budgets, item costs and cost breakdowns to help budget for your volunteer experience. A fund-raising guide should you be planning to raise funds to cover your journey with fun and achievable strategies and activities to help you achieve your goals. A medical check sheet to help you plan your medical needs before you depart for Ghana. A check-list for things to do and remember during the 3 months before departure, in the week before departure, and during your flight.

And When We Receive Your Volunteer Fees Payment in Full we will confirm your payment and send: Your Ghana travel guide. We wrote a popular, digital (PDF) travel guide to Ghana (see: Ghana Guide page) which covers culture, history, language, travel preparation, festivals, nightlife, Ghana's major sites and a number of lesser known locations, climate and weather, a lengthy guide to Ghana's unusual public transport system, timetables (no other guide or transport company provides this), and much more. Our travel guide is now exclusively for volunteers. We will ask you to send your flight schedule so we can arrange to pick you up.

Thank you for taking the time to apply to G-lish Foundation. We know its an extensive application and we appreciate your time and effort. We'll be in contact with you shortly. Visit our Volunteer in Africa page for more information on volunteer abroad projects and our volunteer in Africa brochure. Http://g-lishfoundation.org/volunteer-in-africa Volunteer Abroad Application Form Page | 7