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Impact driven by National Volunteer Day (NVDay)  National Volunteer Day (NVDay) is a GhanaThink Foundation initiative, launched on September 21, 2013, to promote volunteerism in Ghana and connect volunteers with opportunities. It falls on Ghana's Founders' Day holiday and aims to encourage citizens to volunteer for community service and skill development. The day is part of GhanaThink's larger Ghana Volunteer Program (GVP), which was established to manage the initiative and match volunteers with various opportunities across the country.  Origins & Growth (2013–2019) Founded on September 21, 2013 by GhanaThink Foundation, aligned with Founders’ Day (which became Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day for some years), and managed by the Ghana Volunteer Program (GVP) TheAfricanDream Wikipedia . Scaling fast : From ~34 activities and 300+ volunteers in 2013 across 7 regions, to 80+ activities and 1,000+ volunteers by 2015 mightyafrican.blogspot.com TheAfricanDream . Stabilized pre...

In 2013, the GhanaThink Foundation decided to institute National Volunteer Day - NVDay . This was to encourage many people in Ghana to volunteer, make an impact in our communities, help solve problems in ways we could, and help people. It wasn't just to help people, but help ourselves as volunteers : in building skills - especially soft skills, gaining experience, networks , etc. Info about the first couple of years are on Wikipedia . GhanaThink chose Founders' Day - September 21 . By volunteering around September 21, we would also be doing something for Ghana. On December 5, 2013, the Ghana Volunteer Program program (GVP) was created by GhanaThink to run National Volunteer Day and match volunteers to volunteer opportunities. Even though September 21 became Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, it is still National Volunteer Day. In 2020, NVDay is encouraging the celebration of volunteers and for people to volunteer safely and creatively due to the corona virus pandemic. GVP team mem...

We at GhanaThink believe strongly in our mission: mobilize and organize talent for the primary benefit of Ghana and our vision: build a critical mass of patriotic, passionate, positive, proactive, progressive and productive young Ghanaians . Our mission is very broad so there are so many things we can do but we would only do what's easiest for us to succeed at given our state and situation  . We started GhanaThink with the spirit of volunteerism . To this day, GhanaThink is run by 100+  volunteer members and labour , including myself.  Volunteeringh opportunities with us exist for all Barcamps we organize. Aside the members, we normally have a group of volunteers per each local team,  and if we need more, we look for some. Currently, we normally get new volunteers through our community - Konnect , etc or people who we have noted who want to volunteer with us. Volunteerism is when people decide to help get something done to help others without being paid for it ....