Are you or will you be volunteering in Ghana? Check out these top 3 suggestions from volunteers already in Ghana.

-Embrace the fact that Ghana is different; do not try to fight and learn from it; it is part of the process. Anna Slattery, USA- Care

- Adapt to the culture, spend some time with the local people and try to learn a bit of the local language, which will make your time even better. - Henriette Jacobsen, Denmark. Sports in Ghana

- Go out in the weekends and see the entire country, have fun, be open to everything and taste the fufu! Jelle Swaan, Holland-Teaching

The kids at Kumasi Children’s Home saw a different dawn that morning. They had an extra reason to smile. They were playing football that day.

We got into the orphanage and the energized and vibrant kids warmly welcomed us! Football, football, is everything they were talking about!

‘Pass me the ball, I will score today!’ A kid told me as soon as I grabbed the ball to start the warm-up. The day is boiling but the feet of the young players were desperate for some action! There is water but no one sees it, they are focused on the ball.

Locals Vs. Obronis (foreigners). The local team formed by about 30 kids and the foreign team formed by volunteers and friends. The referee’s lungs took a deep breath and started the game!

Not a long time passed when the local team scored the first one! Three seconds later, the same team netted the ball! And so on and on. Endlessly! In about 20 minutes the score was 7-0! We tried our best against the local team but they scored another 5 goals leaving us no real chance to show our best foreign skills, which seemed pretty rusty that day!

After the match the kids enjoyed some fruit juice, fresh water and some cookies. It was great to spend such a great time with all the kids! I will count my days until I go back to Kumasi to play football again with them…and maybe my team will be able to win this time!

When I arrived in Ghana I started wondering where the buses were! I just could see an army of little screaming-vans in the streets. This little vans are adorned with a man in the main door, a man who tries to shout louder than the other screamers from the other van services.

These little talking-vans are called Tro-Tros. At first it is a bit tricky to understand how they work but once you have received an induction and you have learned the main junction names is when the yelling men in the tro-tros start to make sense. They scream out loud the name of route/junction they are going to!

The tro-tro has space for about 12 passengers including the talking man that will not forget that you haven’t paid!

It is always a new world to discover everyday inside one of these little speaking-travel machines.