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Preparing for a Mission Trip to Ghana
Arrive as a guest of a church that sends its own missionaries out — and learn the courtesies that carry you.
Reviewed monthly · last reviewed October 2026
Este curso se tradujo al español con asistencia automática. La versión en inglés es la original.
Lo que aprenderá
- Explain who you are visiting — Ghana’s regions, its roughly eighty languages, and the Christian south and Muslim north
- Greet, thank and apologise in Twi, and know why you are learning it when almost everyone speaks English
- Use the right hand correctly, greet a group from the right, and address an elder or a chief without causing offence
- Prepare your team for Cape Coast and Elmina as sites of atrocity, and debrief afterwards
- Recognise the short-term practices that do harm in Ghana — orphanage visits above all — and choose the ones that help
- Plan for malaria, the yellow fever certificate, water, heat, harmattan and road travel before you go
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- 1
Arriving as a guest
Why a Ghana trip starts from "we are joining" rather than "we are bringing", and what preparation actually buys you.
6 min Cuestionario - 2
Who you are visiting
Ghana’s regions, roughly eighty languages, a Christian south and a Muslim north, and chieftaincy as real authority.
7 min Cuestionario - 3
English, Twi, and what language learning is for here
Why high English fluency changes the point of learning Twi, which language to actually learn, and the phrases worth memorising.
7 min Cuestionario Escrito + interactivo - 4
The right hand, the greeting, and the day you were born
The right-hand rule, greeting a group from the right, titles and chiefs, Akan day names, and the photography rules that protect everyone.
9 min Cuestionario Interactivo - 5
Cape Coast, Elmina and the weight your team is carrying
The slave forts as sites of atrocity rather than sightseeing, the Year of Return, and why one team can have two completely different days.
7 min Cuestionario Escrito + interactivo - 6
Do no harm
Orphanage voluntourism and Ghana’s care-reform policy, direct giving, displaced labour, and what actually helps.
8 min Cuestionario Interactivo - 7
Staying well, getting around, and before you fly
Malaria and the yellow fever certificate, water, heat and harmattan, road safety, and the team checklist most groups miss a step on.
8 min Cuestionario Escrito + interactivo
Fuentes y lecturas adicionales
- U.S. Department of State — Ghana International Travel Information
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — CDC Travelers’ Health: Ghana — yellow fever requirement and year-round malaria
- Ghana Statistical Service — 2021 Population and Housing Census, General Report Volume 3 — religion and background characteristics
- Peace Corps Ghana — Introduction to the Akan Twi Language — greetings, the right hand and greeting a group
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions (inscribed 1979)
- UNICEF Ghana / Department of Social Welfare — Guidelines for Deinstitutionalisation of Residential Homes for Children
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