VOLU embarks on several activities including the following:
- MANUAL WORK PROGRAMMES (WORKCAMPS)
These are activities that involves manual labour directed towards rural development such as, building of classrooms, market stalls, health Centres, housing schemes, ventilated improved toilets, community Centres, youth training centres, roads and drainage systems and digging of wells. Also included are Waste and Sanitation Management, and tree planting and agro-forestation projects such as cocoa and coffee plantations, oil palm plantation, clearing of farm lands, transplanting and harvesting of crops.
- SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMMES
VOLU involves work with Institutions that cater for orphans and people with physical and mental disabilities. As well as assisting with the provision of care, volunteers help to maintain the grounds of the event Centres. Another Programme is carried out under the theme of ‘literacy for development’. Workcamps run literacy and ICT classes for those un-able to read and write as well as those who are computer illiterate as a capacity building mechanism in communities where workcamps take place. Literacy creates some kind of awareness among people to make them act upon and transform peoples’ reality. Environmental Climate change, Waste Disposal and Sanitation Management, as well as Public Health, Family Planning and Sexual Transmitted Disease Campaigns and education are organized alongside workcamps.
- LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMMES.
VOLU organizes training courses for potential and project leaders.
- VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES
VOLU has established a Vocational Training Centre at Kordiabe in the Shia Oduko district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, comprising of hostel to house 50 –100 trainees, 2 classroom block, a workshop block, Conference Hall, Offices as well as animals’ farm and mango plantation serving as a demonstration farm. The Centre gives skills and knowledge base practical training to the youth in Agriculture and Agri-business, carpentry, masonry, beads making, hairdressing and dress making.