Volunteer with Ghana’s leading support centre for Children with Autism

June 25, 2009 - PRLog -- The Autism Centre is a local support and education centre for children with autism that was founded in 1998 by a mother of a child with autism. AACT's mission is to support the families of children with autism. In order to achieve this mission, AACT focuses on two primary areas: 1) promoting awareness and understanding of autism in Ghana; and 2) providing training and educational services to children with autism in order for them to function more effectively in society.

Currently, The Autism Awareness Centre is looking for teachers, teaching assistants, speech therapists, drama and music therapists, clinical psychologists and students to support their work which is aimed at increasing autism awareness and removing the stigma associated with medical disorders in Ghana.

For more information and how to apply please see: http://www.ikando.org/aact.html

Ikando provides skilled volunteers and interns to organisations in Ghana, West Africa. Their objective is to help more people gain the life changing, life affirming experiences that volunteering can give. They are committed to enabling skill transfer, enabling organisations in the developing world to access different skill sets and to helping volunteers realize the value they can add using the skills they hold.

Ikando hopes their volunteers will become responsible global citizens as a result of their experience with Ikando, promoting the need for social change and raising awareness in their home communities on the issues they encountered. Africa has a lot of offer but also needs support, the support it rightfully deserves.

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Ikando provides skilled volunteers and interns to organisations in Ghana, West-Africa. Our objective is to help more people gain the life changing, life affirming experiences that volunteering can give.