General
    ·         Backpack (better than a suitcase while you are travelling)
    ·         Small rucksack for in busses
    ·         Presents for your host families (Only small items! Preferably something typical to your own country) 

Clothes and accessories
·         Eiderdown protective sheet / sheet sleeping-bag  (bed sheets and pillowcases are not provided in host families)
·         Pair(s) of trousers
·         Shorts
·         Swimming suit
·         Zip-off-legs pair of trousers
·         Shirts (long and short sleeves)
·         Socks
·         Underwear
·         Shoes
·         Slippers and sandals (are also cheaply available in Ghana)
·         Towels

 

 

Toilet articles
·         Toothbrush
·         Toothpaste
·         Deodorant
·         Large handkerchiefs / bandannas (also against the dust and the sun)
·         Tampons (sanitary towels are easier to buy)
·         Sun cream (with high protection-factor)
·         UV-protective lipstick or cream
·         After-sun cream
·         Body lotion especially in the windy Harmattan winter)
·         Mosquito repelling cream / spray / lotion (containing at least 30% DEET)
·         Cream relieving insect bites
·         ORS (Oral Rehydration Salts = salt / fluid supplement)
·         Multivitamins (the food in Ghana often doesn't contain all necessary ingredients for a healthy diet)
·         Paracetamol or another painkiller
·         Wound disinfectant spray / lotion
·         Plasters and first aid kit
·         Sterile set of needles etc. (pharmacy / Health service)
·         Mosquito net (treated with Permetrin)
·         Anti-travel-illness drugs
·         Pair of glasses and / or contact lenses and its containers (when you need them) (NOTE : Tamale is very dusty so that lenses alone will not be enough for most people)
·         Spare pair of glasses
·         (Cleaning/storing) fluids for contact lenses (are NOT available in Ghana and it is spoiled faster because of the heat)
·         Thermometer
·         Mirror and comb / brush

Relaxation
·         Pen, paper
·         Diary
·         Dictionary (English to your mother tongue and vice versa)
·         Reading books
·         (Card-) games

 

 

Important documents (take along copies with you, too) en money matters
    ·        Traveller cheques
    ·        Money belt 
    ·        Travel documents (also copies)
    ·        Visa (also copies)
    ·        Passport (also copies)
    ·        Insurance documents (also copies)
    ·        (International) driver's licence (also copies)
    ·        ISTC / ISIC Youth card (necessary for SATA tickets)
    ·        Vaccination documents + blood-group data
    ·        List of (e-mail/home) addresses of family and friends
    ·        Address of your country's embassy in Accra