Okwawu City Soccer Academy
Volunteering Activities
What We Need
SPORTS VOLUNTEERS
The Okwawu city soccer academy is an organization focused on leveraging sports to create hope for local talent, developing the Obomeng community and twenty sub communities.
We aim to nurture football talents from the age of 10 to 15 to help them realize their potential. As a nonprofit organization working in Obomeng-kwahu, eastern Ghana, we welcome all volunteers interested in our goals to create community social impact and also give hope to the young football talents.
Academy players are mostly scouted from football matches in selected areas; Kwahu, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and the Central Region. Talented but needy kids are selected and enrolled to our sports program with parental agreement.
We develop academy children through extra-curricular sports activities, field training, fitness coaching, football tactics training and health/Physio training.
TEACHING VOLUNTEERS
The teaching volunteer program is designed to allow volunteers to work with local teachers to learn their teaching methods and assist with improving them to enable a long term impact.
The School stages we currently work with are:
Junior High School
Primary
Opinamang Daycare
Obomeng ICT information center
CONSTRUCTION/PAINTING VOLUNTEERS
In Ghana we lack support for maintaining and building facilities like schools, clinics and water bodies. These buildings sometimes develop cracks, holes in the floor and loose chairs which pose a danger for the children and adults. We seek to fix dilapidated buildings within Obomeng and its villages and ensure there is clean water for adults and children. We also look to build facilities which will help our project and our footballers realize their potential in both sport and life.
When volunteers help to build and renovate these facilities, they are helping to create a conducive environment for the children to learn and grow. They are also helping us to develop our football project which helps kids reach their full potential.
MentorHer Ghana
MentorHer Ghana is an affirmative concern project introduced in Ghana but started from the kwahu-south area Eastern-Region, purpose is to nurture girls between the ages of 10-16years.This has become necessary as the district keep recording high teenage pregnancy rate every day. A research conducted in the kwahu-south area indicated that 600 teenage girls’ 13-17years got pregnant from 2017 to 2019.
Also, there are many teenage girls within the discussed age that cannot make well informed decisions, lack career guidance and ICT skills.
Marginalized groups we currently work with are the:
-Mentorher Ghana
- selected schools in kwahu-south
-Ghanaian girls above required age but interested in the initiative.
Why we need volunteers:
With the support of more volunteers joining this initiative, we are assured of diverse skill and knowledge impact share for the stakeholders of the project. We hope to instill knowledge like critical thinking, soft skills, entrepreneurship, digital literacy, visual stories and good reading skills etc.
Volunteers are key contributors to sustaining this initiative as they are expected to introduce resource and support to add value to the program.
When & Who
What we Provide
For the purpose of reliability and security, our volunteers stay with the host family of a key management staff, Kwame who is the Public Relations Officer for the organization. He will be available always in person or by phone to assist volunteers with all their needs.
The house has running water and a modern toilet. There is a dorm bed and a single bed in a room which volunteers share. Access to a kitchen is also available for volunteers who would like to cook.
Taxis will always be available from the volunteer house to all areas that volunteers want to visit. The next town, Mpraeso is the capital of the Kwahu South area and has the products and services that volunteers need (e.g. groceries, bank/ATM, restaurant, bar, hospital, supermarket). Other interesting attractions are not far from the volunteer house.
we serve breakfast and volunteers can cook their own lunch whiles we also have a trusted food vendor who deliver food based on specifications.
Our Fees
This daily fee is charged to take care of breakfast ,contingencies and usage of utilities at the host family volunteer house. thank you
7 Reviews
At first, when I arrived, I didn't notice how special is this town, but gradually during my volunteer there, I found it out.
The two guys who were responsible for me (Kwami and Nana) become right away, my best friends.
The school experience was very special to me. During the week, I had the opportunity to teach and help the Obomeng children in school. I enjoyed that a lot and felt happy and special to help them. I also donated the children some notebooks and pencils, which are basic needs that every child deserves to have.
obomeng has also a soccer academy that takes place every day after school hours.
I'm glad that I had the opportunity to join this particular soccer team, coach and exercise with them. I even went scouting in different towns, searching for young talented players that could join the academy. The academy boys are very talented and have a lot of passion for success.
During the weekends, school is closed so I had the chance to travel and visit other areas in Ghana. Kwami and Nana traveled with me and took me to some of the most amazing and beautiful areas in Ghana.
I can't describe in words how much this volunteering means to me.
I had the most amazing experience in my life and this adventure and people went into my heart.
I highly recommend everyone to come and volunteer in this amazing place, and I wish that Obemye could get the conditions they deserve!" - on 16/11/2019
we appreciate your efforts bro, bless you"
More Services we Offer
OUR VOLUNTEER PLACEMENT DOESNT CHARGE FOR PRETRIP ASSISTANCE, TOUR ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL EVENTS ARE PAID FOR BY VOLUNTEERS
Contact Person
Other Ways to Help
BOOKS, FOOTBALL BOOTS,JERSEYS,BLAZERS,PEN ,PENCILS
Additional Info about Us
KWAME (PR)
HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SMOOTH OPERATIONS OF VOLUNTEER PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES AND COORDINATION .HES IN-CHARGE OF PICK-UP SERVICE ,TOURS AND COMMUNICATION ABOUT VOLUNTEER ROLE AND REQUEST ETC
VOLUNTEERS WILL BE STAYING WITH KWAME IN THE HOST HOUSE LOCATED ON OBOMENG-KWAHU.
NANA(MANAGER)
AVAILABLE AS A MANAGER OF THE ORGANISATION TO AID IN ACTIVITIES OF VOLUNTEERS .
HE IS MOSTLY PART OF MORE DISCUSSIONS FROM ORIENTATION TO THE END OF VOLUNTEER ROLE
IN OUR DISTRICT (kWAHU SOUTH) ,THERE ARE A LOT OF ACTIVITIES VOLUNTEERS CAN BE PART OF WHICH WILL BE COMMUNICATED DURING ORIENTATION .
COMMUNITY NEARBY (MPRAESO) HAS ALL THAT ONE NEED TO SUSTAIN HIS/HER STAY WITH US. TALK OF VISA ATM, GROCERY SHOPS,HOSPITALS,ENTERTAINMENT CENTRES,COURTHOUSE,POLICE STATION,BANK ETC
TEACHING VOLUNTEER ROLES ARE SEASONAL THUS VOLUNTEERS MIGHT ARRIVE DURING EDUCATIONAL HOLIDAY. IN SPITE OF THIS, VOLUNTEERS ORGANISE VACATION CLASS AND OTHER LESSONS.
THE FOOTBALL ACADEMY ALSO HAVE ROLES AFTER VACATION WHERE VOLUNTEERS CAN BE PART OF FOOTBALL SCOUTING IN OTHER REGIONS.
Okwawu City Soccer Academy is a social nonprofit that seek the welfare of talented but less priviledged kids between the age of 11,13 and 15 respectively.
We are headquartered in Obomeng-kwahu and our social impact is concentrated on 20 sub communities under the obomeng traditional area.
We put the kids together at the academy house and take care of them in their dream to become world international footballers.
Our volunteer placement program is in the areas of teaching, women empowerment,building/painting, sports coaching and social entrepreneurship.
I have many photos and a video of the academy from when I was able to donate our kit to the boys from my club, it is one of my most cherished memories m, how grateful and excited the boys were and are to anyone who takes the time out to spend with them.
Please go and see for yourself and spread the word of Okwawu City Soccer Academy" - on 30/05/2019