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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
- Tampons (sanitary towels are easier to buy)
- Sun cream (with high protection-factor)
- 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
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