Volunteering
Mutual learning
One of the unique offers from Jolinaiko Eco Tours is our volunteering arrangement. Our volunteer projects are based on mutual learning and have proven to give an extra-ordinary African experience to students, travellers and anyone who is interested in really getting to know our people and culture.
Since 2004 Jolinaiko Eco Tours has been organising volunteer placements in various settings for people who want to combine travelling with voluntary work.
Our aim is to achieve as much sustainable impact as possible. Therefore we have decided to focus mainly on the villages of Atsiekpoe and Vume in the beautiful Volta Region, where volunteering projects are already embedded into our Eco Village project.
Atsiekpoe and Vume
Atsiekpoe and Vume are small, twin villages on the green banks of the Volta River in the south-eastern part of the Volta Region. The area is very quiet and surrounded by nature, rice fields and pineapple plantations. To get to Atsiekpoe-Vume, you have to cross the Volta River by local ferry canoe from the small town of Aveyime-Bator. Aveyime-Bator is about one and a half hour’s drive from Accra and offers almost everything a traveller could need.
The rural villages of Atsiekpoe and Vume are very basic and small-scale. They consist largely of mud brick houses with thatched roofs, small village squares and a fairly large school. At the moment there is no electricity and the water supply still comes from the river. This makes for a slightly primitive yet highly memorable volunteer or travel experience.
More information
You can read more about the collaboration between Jolinaiko Eco Tours and Atsiekpoe-Vume in the Eco Village section.
Photos of the villages and surrounding areas can be found in our photoalbum of Atsiekpoe-Vume photoalbum and photo album of the Jolinaiko Eco Village (coming soon).
