International Volunteer, Business Consultant, Ghana, Accra - Anonymous employee Challenges Worldwide Employee Review

3 months living in a new country - Living with local families and working with an equal number of in country volunteers makes this program stand out from other similar offerings. Good for the CV - you get a lot of opportunity to talk about this, and is more interesting than your standard internship. Especially for people with little previous experience If their aim is to provide an experience for volunteers, both in country and for UK, then it probably does this.

Poor training - run by people who have very little credibility in what they're talking about. Anyone who can Google and search wiki could provide the 'business' training we received. If their aim is to provide advice to local businesses, 3 months from start to finish is too short for many of the projects .The fact that this is pre-set, with a pre-determined structure for 'analysis of the business', with no concern for the project in question is telling.

I loved the other volunteers

- Severely disorganised management. They were never able to do anything to schedule, and we all had to suffer because of it. - Unqualified management. It is essentially the blind following the blind. The ranks of challenges are filled with clueless former volunteers who were trained by other clueless former volunteers - repetitive useless training - All the work was online, but we were in a country that didn't really use wifi regularly, yet we were not given enough provision to buy mobile data -Misleading information given about the work we would be doing There really isn't enough space to list all of my problems with the organisation.