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EXCHANGE AND HOST FAMILY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
The Foundation will link you with a family and internship placement after receiving your application. Applicant will then begin a period of introduction and orientation with the family through email and/or telephone correspondence. This is a people-to-people program designed to find homes for Americans planning to visit Africa whether for a tourist visit, business internship, or both. Participants will gain:
- A unique cultural experience.
- An introduction to African culture- family life, customs, languages, and cuisine.
- An experimental education in Africa 's history and current state of development
- A network of life-long friends and contacts .
As Africans are known for their hospitality and warmth, our host families are eager to welcome American visitors into their country and their homes. The Let's Go Africa Foundation arranges all specific living requirements and comforts with each family
Participants are guaranteed access to running water and electricity, as well as sanitary cooking and dwelling conditions.
The Let's Go Africa Foundation has a mission to enhance Africa's ability to market its tourism endowments and develop tourism products in the United States. This includes:
- Informed and special market products
- Research to identify tourism marketing in the United States
- Tour package chain promotion
- Conferences, seminars and workshops with follow-ups
- Study tours
- Aggressive promoting campaigns in the United States.
The Foundation is actively promoting Tourism to Ghana, South Africa and other Countries. The first project which is "Let's Go Ghana, a Visitors Study Guide" written by Kwasi Bosompem provides a comprehensive guide on tourism in Ghana. Hundreds of the books have been distributed to Howard University and other HBCU's. For a free copy of the book, contact the Let's Go Africa Foundation
SOUTH AFRICA http://www.tourism.org.za/
GHANA http://www.africaonline.com.gh/Tourism/
SENEGAL http://www.senegal-tourism.com/
KENYA http://www.magicalkenya.com/
BOTSWANA http://www.gov.bw/tourism/index_f.html
NIGERIA http://www.nigeriatourism.net/ntdcindex.htm
Tourism Cares
Tourism Cares is supporting Let’s Go Africa Foundation to enhance and preserve travel experience to Cape Coast, Elmina Castles and other Slave Forts and Castles in Ghana for future generations. Let’s Go Africa Foundation with the support from Tourism Cares will promote sensitive and sustainable development tourism to the Slave Castles of Cape Coast, Elmina and other Forts and Castles in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana. This will make visitors aware of the historic sites and increase tourism traffic from the United States.
In 1990, Mr.. Kwasi Bosompem, the Executive Director of Let's Go Africa Foundation, published the 1st edition of the book"Let's Go Ghana, A Visitors Guide to Tourism and Business opportunities in Ghana". The second and third editions were published in 1995 and 2007. About 10,000 of the books were donated to schools and institutions in the United States and this has resulted in an increased travel to Ghana from the United States. After two consecutive efforts by Let's Go Africa Foundation to Tourism Cares since 2003, Tourism Cares is now supporting Let's Go Africa Foundation to publish a "Hand book for an increased travel to the heritage sites in Ghana.
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