Interesting Volunteering In Ghana

Online, June 7, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Ikando is recruiting volunteers and Interns for Integrated Development in Focus. They are looking for people with an interest in international development and social work to join their team.

Integrated Development in Focus' (DIF) mission is to mobilize resource and stakeholders to empower vulnerable women, youth and children, to realize their own development. Integrated Development in Focus (DIF) was formed and inaugurated as a capacity building, social development agency involved primarily in poverty reduction, preventive health education, reproductive health, rural/urban development and the development of networks.

Currently, Integrated Development in Focus seeks social workers, students with an interest in international development, child rights educators, community sanitation officers and development fundraising officers to work towards empowering persons in lesser developed countries such as Ghana to realize sustainable growth and development.

For more information and how to apply please see: http://www.ikando.org

Ikando provides skilled volunteers and interns to organisations in Ghana, West Africa. Their objective is to help more people gain the life changing, life affirming experiences that volunteering can give. They are committed to enabling skill transfer, enabling organisations in the developing world to access different skill sets and to helping volunteers realize the value they can add using the skills they hold.

Ikando hopes their volunteers will become responsible global citizens as a result of their experience with Ikando, promoting the need for social change and raising awareness in their home communities on the issues they encountered. Africa has a lot of offer but also needs support, the support it rightfully deserves.