PROJECT ABROAD

The Ghana-Africa cultural expedition known as Black Unity Foundation: project abroad is well designed to give you an experience of a life time. The program provides a life experience cultural expedition where participants could learn the beauty of African customs, culture, etiquette, and behaviors and how the African views his world, her ancient practices and how other customs has influence it present practice today. The aim of the project is to promote global peace and unity through the learning and understanding of other cultures. 

INFORMATION

GHANA

 Ghana is the first black nation south of the Sahara to gain her freedom from the British on the 6th of match 1957.It derived her name from the ancient Ghana Empire which means land of gold and salt. The foundering fathers establish her with the purpose of her being a place where all Black [African] culture will meet and where all blacks [Africans] will come to or better still the Mecca of Blacks. She is geographically positioned at the centre of the world with the Greenwich meridian starting from Tema-Ghana and the equator passing through it gulf of Guinea which forms part of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the land of bounty when it comes to natural resources. she houses every mineral man can think of from yellow gold ,black gold[oil],and white gold[salt] just to mention a few. She is also blessed with natures beauty, the sun is with her all year round, water falls, estuaries, natural lakes, vegetations, mountains, wild life etc. Her ancient original customs and traditions are timeless giving true meaning to life on earth .She houses historic monuments that is incomparable on the continent and any where in the world when it comes to black history and heritage. Presently she is regarded as the gate way to West Africa for that matter to Africa. She is peaceful and her people are very warm and hospitable.

The concepts and philosophies of African society, its customs and values is the same across the entire African continent except that there are variations in their ceremonial performance from country to country and tribe to tribe. Learning the culture of any tribe and working in any African community helps one to have an insight into African perception of the world we live in. Volunteering on the Black Unity project Abroad-Ghana will give an opportunity to visit a small village, urban city for a home stay, join in a drumming and dancing performance, learn about herbal medicine and traditional healing with a local practitioner, learn an

* Participants will be given a tour across the length and breath of the country of host through historic and relevant sites in relationship to the choice of that aspect of culture being examined on the project.

* They will be at a workshop where the original ancient cultural ceremonies or practices will be demonstrated by persons who are the real authorities of the custom being examined.

* Participants will be given the opportunity to witness how those ceremonies has been influences by other cultures for the good or bad by attending real  ceremonies taking place in the community.

* Participants will embark on one week voluntary community work .working through the black unity foundation; the foundation will place participants in a community service job of their choice, where they have the best knowledge and expertise. It is to unable participants to have direct relationship with the members of the community through their service, to learn and share ideas at first hand and contributing ones quota to society.

* Participants will be given a get together party to climax the end of the project with the host community members and all persons who got involved in the project a day before their departure to their individual countries.

Participants will be housed in apartments provided by the foundation. There will be availability of computer labs within or nearby the apartments to enhance the project. It will include low cost restaurant and laundry services.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

* 18 years and above

* Must be able to foot once own trip

* Must be share in own vision of the need for peaceful co-existence of all men and uniting the human family

* Must be willing to be of serve to society

• Passports, Visas, and inoculations must be arranged for well in advance of departure. See websites below for details. You must have a passport valid for more than 6 months to be able to get the Ghana visa. It takes about 3 weeks to get the Ghana visa from the Ghanaian embassy, and your valid passport must be mailed to the embassy to get the visa. Current wait times for new U.S. Passports is around 10 weeks. Please plan ahead. A Ghana visa cannot be issued in Ghana. A certificate of Yellow Fever vaccination is required for entry to Ghana.
• U.S. State Department - Ghana
• Ghana Embassy - Visa Application

The following vaccinations should be taken for travel to Ghana:
Yellow Fever (required), Hepatitis A & B, polio, Typhoid (live vaccine tablet), and Malaria prophylaxis:

• Malarone - most effective and expensive.
• Larium - speak to your physician about side effects of this drug
• Doxycycline - less effective, least expensive
• DEET & Permetherine - repellants

For full detail on registration, cost and program information, contact us on blackunityfoundation@gmail.com visit or website: www.blackunityfoundation.faithweb.com