Impact Travel, 2022

With the coming of covid-19, young girls and women are the most affected especially in rural Ghana. The rate of girls and women abuse increased exponentially according the gender department of Ghana. The women apprenticeship and production programme is aim to  train and employ women who have dropped out of school due to poverty, teenage pregnancy, disease, domestic violence, physical disability and those who wish to learn a vocation. These apprentices are taken through varied vocations but mainly sewing and dressmaking. 10 to 15 women are train for a period of one year of which they shall be given a sewing machines to commence business and or be employed in the Production Programme. The goal is to train and create jobs so these women can live a dignify life and to be able to care for their families and to break the vicious cycle of poverty in the short and long term. Read more about the Apprenticeship and Production Programme. 

Activities of the volunteer on the ground will include, helping in the

· Construction of the Apprenticeship Centre (mixing mortar, laying blocks, fetching sand, fetching water, plumbing work, carpentry work.)

· Training sewing skills and fashion design

· Teaching basic English Language and mathematics

- Women mentorship

Quality health care delivery in rural communities in Ghana has always been a challenge especially since the emergence of coronavirus. This is due to inadequate supply of personnel, inadequate health care delivery materials, and the lack of funds in the implementation government’s public health programmes. Most of these challenges are mainly seen in rural communities which constitute more than 60% of the Ghanaians population. To avert this and under our Health for All Programme, we aim to bring health care to the door step of communities. VARAS in partnership with local clinics, and under the direction and assistance of a physician and nurses, the impact volunteer shall

· Assist local nurses educate community students about covid-19,  personal hygiene, sexually transmitted infections, girls care

· Assist local nurses educate religious group members way to prevent the catching of covid-19 in order to remove misconceptions and also on personal hygiene, sexually transmitted diseases etc.

·  through public engagement, home visit and public address system educate communities on environmental sanitation, cleanliness etc

*Volunteers who wish to intern in a teaching hospital to job shadow physicians should contact us for placement.  

One of the major hard hit sectors affected by covid-19 is the education. With children out of school for more than a year, there is a lot to catch up with academic work.  It has been established that, 3 out every 5 students may not not ready to sit for the basic exam due to the gap year. There is therefore the need to devote more time to catch cover up lost time. This will through provision of resource materials and the teaching of same. Unfortunately, the government is money constraint to provide these facilities due to the impact of the pandemic. 

Under the Impact Travel initiative, the volunteer will among other things

- Mentor students especially young girls who are affected directly or indirectly by the pandemic

-  Teaching of troubling subjects - Creative Arts, Music and Science

- Building of on-site water supplies and sanitation materials to community schools

- Groom students in career development and business development