Volunteer at Tamale Orphanage

Tamale Children's Home is located in the Northern Region of Ghana. After about nine hours on the road from Accra (the capital) and a brief stop in Kumasi, you will arrive in Tamale, capital of the Northern Region to make a difference in the lives of the orphans at the Tamale Children's Home. There are about 30 children from one week old living in the Tamale orphanage and two permanent Ghanaian employees. Volunteers are needed to make a difference in the lives of the children. Normally volunteers work during the morning or the afternoon. The work responsibilities of volunteers include picking the children up from bed, feeding, bathing and dressing. Volunteers also help the staff with cleaning, entertaining and taking the sick children to the hospital.

Tamale Children's Home: A Special Home for abandoned babies and children in the Rural area of Ghana. These children are not only orphans but also have no extended families to go to as is the normal situation in Ghana.

The Tamale Children's Home is really a long way from being called a Children's Home. You are bound to have sleepless nights just thinking about its numerous problems. This is an orphanage established in 1969, by the Department of Social Welfare to cater to abandoned children and orphans, but, unlike other orphanages set up in the big cities (e.g. OSU, S.O.S. in Accra and Tema) which more frequently enjoy philanthropic services, the Tamale children's home is rarely heard of and does not enjoy such support. Perhaps because the Tamale community is predominantly poor, and has a disadvantageous location (13hrs drive from Accra) there is a lack of media interest; as such the home which serves the entire Northern region and a significant part of the Brong Ahafo region, has remained largely anonymous since its establishment. Can you picture a foster home with no donor support? Apart from one Catholic Rev. Father by the name of Martin who lends a hand from time to time, the children remain abandoned even in the foster home.

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