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Why Choose VPWA?
VPWA offers genuine experiences that positively affect local people. VPWA promotes sustainable and responsible volunteering through all our projects.
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Sustainable Volunteer Projects
When choosing a VPWA project, you are choosing to support responsible development for a range of causes. Find out more about all of our projects.
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Read our guide to living and volunteering in Ghana to understand the culture, people and expectations before you arrive.
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More About VPWA

Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa is a youth-led, volunteer-driven NGO based in Ghana. It aims to improve opportunities for people in underprivileged communities through better education, health, sanitation and sustainable development.

VPWA runs a range of projects which rely on the support of volunteers from around the world. Its varied work supports the principles of the UN Global Compact and aims to fulfil the Millennium Development Goals. Our work has been twice recognised by the United Nations Volunteers Award in 2010 and 2011.

You can support VPWA’s valuable projects in West Africa in three different ways. You can become a volunteer on a VPWA project, partner through sponsorship, or by making a donation.

VPWA projects aim to lift people out of poverty

  • Educating

    Promoting education and reducing illiteracy

  • Promoting

    Promoting good governance, human rights, energy and environmental policies

  • Developing

    Building skills to help individuals and communities fight the threat of poverty, for example, through the provision of micro-finance and business training

  • Fighting

    Fighting the spread of diseases, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis through educating both communities and policy makers

Volunteer News

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VPWA Wins European Union Grant Award

VPWA Wins European Union Grant Award

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Respecting Ghanaian Roots: The Role of the Cultural Sector in Development

Respecting Ghanaian Roots: The Role of the Cultural Sector in Development

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United Nations Volunteers Award Winner – 2010, 2011

Coalition for the International Criminal Court

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United Nations Global Compact

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