HOPE AND SERVICE TO MANKIND FOUNDATION (Hope for Rural Dwellers) is a Voluntary, Non-profit,Charitable, Social, Non-political, Non-governmental, Inter-faith and Welfare Organisation Registered in Ghana Under section 27 and 28 of 1963 Companies Code(Act 179) with registration number G-35, 853.

Our vision is to build a healthy and prosperous society based on gender equality and equity in every walk of life by improving the lives of the poor through education,economic and social development programs. We share the vision of a world where all forms of disability can be avoided, healed or integrated and in which the rights of people with disabilities are respected and applied.

Our mission is committed to serving MANKIND by providing the basic amenities of life to the helpless and needy people of all communities and also by encouraging Girl child, People with Disabilities and Youth education. https://www.hopeandservice.org

We bring together literate and non-literate, towns, villages, people in common respect for each other and for manual work to promote and encourage the development of the spirit of voluntarism among the youth and people of all communities by organising workcamps towards physical projects, literacy work,and establishing demonstrational camps and farms, Leadership training, camping activities and International Cultural Exchange Programmes.

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Hope and Service to Mankind Foundation bring Students/Volunteers together for group educational activities that focus on issues related to intercultural communication, development issues in the host communities and larger issues related to international development.

During the program participants have the chance to experience diverse cultural landscape and learn more about the countries remarkable history. Volunteers learn a lot from us, but in a very different way than school.

PROJECTS:
Community development projects / Working with People with Disabilities / Working with Children and Youth / Teaching / Sports / Manual Skills/ Women and Adult Education / ICT and Vocational skills development / HIV/AIDS(people with chronic diseases, neglected tropical diseases, etc.).

As a give back, our participants are introduced to the different drums all made locally, learning the Africa way of lifestyle (family, cooking and dressing), joining our skilled drummers who will teach them many of the African drumming beats, such as Kpacha, Gahu, Bamaya, Kete and Fume beats and learning to move to the beat with traditional dancers, etc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Engaging young people from a range of backgrounds and providing a common language, to bring about change and development in the life of our rural youth for a better life style through an international exchange programme. Using the power of sport to improve the lives of young people while encouraging all young people to take part in sport and PE both in and out of school time

We believe that a motivated international friends could give a big extra input to our activities, by bringing in new experiences, new knowledge, ideas and new energy that could give a new perspective to our activities especially our youth capacity building efforts that will go a long way to help in developing further our current development projects.

Working with young people (youth) including our local volunteers is a manifestation of what we aim to develop in the youth by means of exposure

Music, Movies, and Books

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Loyalty and Disloyalty, Betrayal in the City, Son of Fate, The Return of the King, A Man of the People, The Lord of the Rings, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, Open Wide: An Abecedarium for the Great Digestive System
Di grammatica non si muore, Do Hard Things, Love Is Beautiful, A Bad Reaction, Book Lovers, Cooking with Leo: An Allergen-Free Autism Family Cookbook, Brooklyn Book Festival, The Shack by Wm Paul Young, The Gods Are Not to Blame, Michael Jackson- The Man Behind The Mirror, Defending a King- His Life and Legacy
Embedded Sustainability, The Lovely Bones, Self-development, The Glass Bead Game, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart, Macbeth, Yes We Can Read, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
The Color of Water, Half of a Yellow Sun, Arrow of God, Gone with the Wind, The Firm , Animal Farm George Orwell

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

CULTURE/TRADITION CAMP (Drumming and Dancing, etc.)

HSMF Drumming and Dancing Camp is an amazing period of drumming, dancing, and singing that welcomes everybody who wants to learn and share their rhythm and spirit in a safe and supportive environment while learning the culture and traditions of rural Ghana. Whatever your skill level, there will be something for you! (With a cost).

There’s a lot to do at camp! * Drumming and Dance Workshops – Choose from many different workshops going on all day;
* Hiking – Walk the beautiful trails that weave through the land
* Showcase – Show off what you learned at camp or share your other talents with everybody at the talent showcase.
* Bonfires and Late Night Jams – Join in some of the late night jams for more drumming, singing, and dancing.

Side Attraction:
Participants will visit Tsatsadu Waterfalls, Wli Waterfalls – the highest waterfalls in West Africa and also Mount Afajdato, exciting and historic places, etc.
http://www.servicetomankindfoundation.com/work-camps.html

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach Me Teacher

We have opportunities for potential skills volunteers such as, trained teachers, trained nurses, social workers, nutritionist, arts and craft, vocational trainers etc. We also accept administrators with experience with the following: Strategic planning, Time management, Accountancy, Human resource, Project marketers, and Communication (writing proposals for grant, writing comprehensive report on studies, publishing results to contributors. Join us today...https://www.givingway.com/organization/hope-and-service-to-mankind-foundation

Volunteers role will include the following and many more as to when it is demanded;
•Teaching (basic, general and informal education, vocational skills education and ICT workshops).
•Teaching and coaching ( physical education, girls empowerment and sports development, youth sport)
•Moulding bricks, digging soil, brick laying, supporting the experts and transporting of building materials (Construction of classrooms, libraries, clinics and community centres).
•Re-launch the use of condoms and to create a more positive image of condom use in preventing HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections and in birth control
•Creating awareness and increasing teachers, students and the general public knowledge about major infectious diseases by promoting positive change behaviour both in students and teachers and also at homes.
•Encouraging and building a more positive future for Street and Working Children, Young People and especially girls’ participation in lifelong physical activities by developing different ways of getting them interested and involved to bring about sustainability and change in their life.
•Expanding support to schools to use sport to raise standards, achievement and attainment across all subject areas because we believe PE and sport can make a major contribution to many agendas – educational achievement, public health, community cohesion and, of course, sporting performance at the highest level.
•Helping young people to live healthy and active lives and to be the best they can be. Sport can be used as a great way to help them achieve this.
•Promoting and marketing of the organisations charity activities
•Computer education will help build children confidence and self-esteem to aspire for decent livelihoods, for honest and dignified positions in society through the right use of the information age based on right skills acquired by them in school at the right time. Teach them all about computers and its use.

Welcome to a family of smile builders....Head, Heart and Hand...
Please Teacher, Teach me!!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Group educational activities that focuses on issues related to intercultural communication, development issues in our communities and larger issues related to rural development while learning the Africa way of lifestyle (family, cooking, dressing and lifestyle, traditions and culture, etc), drumming and dancing lesson, etc.

The rich cultural heritage of my people communities is usually manifested during festivals. Ghanaian hospitality can also be seen in this regard. The celebration of festivals in Ghana is an essential part of Ghanaian culture. Several rites and rituals are performed throughout the year in various parts of the country, including child-birth, rites of passage, puberty, marriage and death. Most of the celebrations are attended by entire villages and are strictly observed by the traditional elders of the respective ethnic groups. Join us today...https://www.givingway.com/organization/hope-and-service-to-mankind-foundation

Risk prevention, protection and safety. The general security in Ghana is peaceful and welcoming. Ghana is the number one destination and gateway to Africa today. We choose our locations based on the stability of the government, low crime rates, security and the integrity of the hosting community.

You will not pay for any participation fees but we will provide you with free accommodation, a drum and a lot of friends. • All participants are presented with a certificate upon completion of the programme, confirming their involvement in community development project. Souvenirs are given as a gift in appreciation of participants efforts.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Netherlands, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Togo

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Morocco, Spain, Togo