Dr Tess Maguire teaching MAPs at KRHTSWe're always on the lookout for skilled and motivated people to join us. There are three broad ways that you can volunteer for the Kintampo Project:
Volunteer as a Fundraiser
Are you an experienced fundraiser? We are looking for creative people with big ideas and a passion for charity income generation. Fundraisers work within their local area, organising events and making the most of opportunities to bring in the vital funds our project needs to keep going.
Want to find out more? Visit our fundraising section
Volunteer as a Helper
If you would like to help us on a more casual basis, why not sign up to become a Project Helper? As a helper, we will call on you from time to time, offering different ways for you to get involved which match your skills or interests. These will likely be specific tasks or events - for example: helping with fundraising activities, helping to maintain the website, small or limited administrative tasks. If you want to join us as a Helper, register your interest, and tell us about your skills and areas of interest.
Apply to become a Kintampo Project Member
Project Members are involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the Kintampo Project's various activities. Members are also involved in support or administrative roles. Project Members attend meetings and devote time to helping the Project on an ongoing basis. If you are interested in becoming a Project Member, please take a look at the list of current opportunities below.
If you think you can provide support in one or more of these areas, then please email your CV and a covering letter to mark.roberts@thekintampotrust.org
If you have skills that are not in the list below but would like to be considered for future opportunities to become a Kintampo Project Member, please register your interest and we will be happy to contact you when new opportunities arise. As we are both an education and mental health project we recruit health service volunteers for roles such as educator development, field site development, lecturing, examining, running CPD workshops, running supervision training, conferencing, research, monitoring and evaluation. However, we advertise these opportunities when we need them. Read more about volunteering as a Project Member here...
Current Opportunities for Project Membership
- Accountancy and book keeping for our projects and charity accounts
- Human resource management for the appointment and management of volunteers
- Fundraising - visit our fundraising section
- Communications and media to help promote the project
- Administration. We are interested to hear from you if you could undertake time or subject bound pieces of administrative work, for example managing a database, collating questionnaire responses etc
- Project Management to help with all aspects, particularly monitoring and evaluation.
- Curriculum Support - actively working with other project members on supplying and stocking critical teaching sites in Ghana with books, printers, copiers etc. This also involves supporting the transport needs of students to visit often remote clinical training sites
You can work in the UK only or you may be involved in visits to Ghana. Visits can be through various means for example:
- Secondments (usually 2 - 3 weeks for each visit)
- Sabbaticals (upto 6 months)
- Research placements (3 - 6 months)
What are the benefits?
Our work certainly helps mentally ill people in Ghana but it also has much wider benefits. Volunteering with us will advance your personal development and you can broaden the horizons of your work colleagues (and friends!) too. You provide employment and livelihoods for people in Ghana. You help reduce the ‘brain drain’ that is so badly affecting Ghana and Africa as a whole. In fact given that we employ so many African staff in the UK health service it gives something back to those countries from which we have taken vital staff they themselves need.
