Whether you are on a gap year, summer placement or career break, if you want to get your hands dirty and see physical results from your placement overseas, our Community Building Project may suit you.

Based in the Akuapem Hills just over an hour north of Accra you would be joining a team of Projects Abroad volunteers and local people constructing simple buildings in the hill-village of Kwamoso and five other nearby communities.

Within the village and surrounding areas many families live in inadequate accommodation. Our housing project allows them to move to new, better-quality homes. Local people and volunteers help with the construction, and then the family repays the loan over time by buying construction materials which can be used to build future houses for other families needing help.

The houses are all made from mud bricks that are produced using a press, some mud and water, then left to set hard in the sun. Volunteers help with this process and also with building the walls, plastering and painting the houses. Each house takes an average of one month to construct.

In addition to the basic project, you may also help with landscaping the surrounding area, painting local schools and renovating classrooms in the village school. Volunteers have also been involved in the building of new classrooms for local schools and have even built a library for the Kwamoso village school.

Supervised by the village priest and working with local people who will ultimately benefit from the buildings, this is a great opportunity to get involved in a rural project and become an integral part of an African community.

Our full-time regional coordinator lives nearby and visits the placement nearly every day so you'll always have full support from Projects Abroad too.

Building work takes place early in the morning and late in the afternoon to avoid the hot midday sun, so you'll have plenty of time to get involved in village life. Many volunteers get involved within the village community by helping in the kindergarten class or playing soccer with some of the school children once the building work has finished for the day.

Ghana is an exciting and popular place to spend some time on a volunteer project or internship. Ghana is an intensely colourful land on the West coast of Africa. Once the British colony known as the 'Gold Coast', it is renowned for the friendliness and warmth of its people.

Ghana has great beaches, wild savannah and dense rainforests. This English-speaking country provides volunteers with a wonderful introduction to Africa; it is politically-stable, safe, affordable and rewarding to visit.

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