Current volunteers are an office skills instructor at a girls polytechnic, a catering tutor, a youth worker and a entrepreneurial skills teacher working at a vocational training centre. Volunteers include a conservation officer working with the Department of Game and Wildlife, a project manager in an agro-forestry organisation and volunteers providing administration, management and fundraising skills. VSO also supports vocational placements which enhance skills and income-generating opportunities of disabled people. Current placements include a carpentry instructor and a computer trainer, working in schools for deaf people and an electronics teacher working in a centre for physically-disabled people. VSO intends to expand its work in the disability sector and future volunteers will also build the capacities of organisations who are providing services for, or campaigning on behalf, of people with disabilities.
Placements are likely to be in management, fundraising and advocacy training.
In health, VSO aims to improve access to health services, especially for people in rural disadvantaged communities. Volunteers include health professionals, for example, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, midwifes and health educators, as well as support staff such as administrators, computer trainers and water and sanitation engineers. I feel I have been adopted into more than one extended family and hope I will be able to maintain contact with them. I find I am constantly having to question my long-held ideas and beliefs about what is logical and common sense and what is necessary and what is just desirable. I feel very privileged to have lived and worked in Ghana and to have felt so accepted and welcome there.