Apart from the few special VOLU projects which are decided upon by the National Secretariat, all others are organized upon request.  Communities and organizations usually request the assistance of volunteers on their projects.  Such requests should be made well in advance (at least six month) through the local executive to the National Secretariat.  Feasibility studies are carried out by Regional Secretaries to assess the importance of the project, and tools, equipment and accommodation available.  No project is accepted if basic tools and equipment are not to be had.  Volunteers usually accept simple classroom blocks for accommodation.  Sometimes they share residence with the natives under a scheme call Experimental Living.  All projects that are accepted are catalogued and published.  Volunteers are then invited to attend the camps.

Volunteers take along to camps their own bedding, cutlery, crockery, toilet set, and pocket money.  No transport fare is provided for volunteers for traveling to and from the camps.  Food is, however, provided by the Association. On the grounds medicals, volunteers are always encouraged and advised to secure Insurance Covers, more particularly volunteers from overseas countries. 

There are four types of camps at the national level, Local, International, Ecumenical and Leadership.

A Local camp is one which is attended by Ghanaians only.  The main reason for such camps is to avoid exposing foreigners to unnecessary dangers which are consequential to the type of works or tasks to be executed. It might also be because foreigner counterparts would not be of any use in those camps.

An International camp is attended by volunteers from all countries around the world, including Ghana.

An Ecumenical camp is run mainly for religiously incline people. Usually, Christian in outlook, Bible discussions and studies from the major part of the leisure time activities.  Otherwise every aspect of the camp life is just the same as in any of the other types.  Only one of such camps is organized each year.  Ecumenical camps are also international in composition and disposition.

Leadership camps are organized during Easter for selected members for training; participation in this training programme is strictly by selection or invitation.
Ghanaian volunteers also have opportunities to attend foreign camps under the existing exchange programmes between volu and its foreign counterparts.  This scheme is generally referred to as ‘service abroad’.

Administration of Camps 
  
Volunteers can only attend camps to which they have been invited or accepted by the National Secretariat. A camp, there are obliged to conduct themselves properly so that there is peaceful coexistence with the social culture of the society in which they work.  Volunteers are expected to give due respect to their fellow campers and to respect the camp leaders and all other officers of the camp. To encourage free association amongst campers, the use of “camp names” is encouraged.  A camp name is a nickname accepted by the volunteer himself. Thus at a camp, one might hear such names as Black Scorpion, Foreman., Volu Kofi, Pompidou, Osofo, Red Betty Smart, Lucifer, Awosi, Guy Jesus, Stone, Koo Duku, Double English, etc.

The camp leader is responsible for the day to day administration of the camp.  He reports at the project community at least, seven days before the opining of the camp and introduces himself to the local authorities, the police (if there is any), and the local medical officer.  While waiting for the arrival of his colleague campers, he makes all necessary arrangements for accommodation, food, water, places of convenience and fuel.  Campers on arrival register their names and contact addresses.  The camp register is usually secured to a wall or a notice board.  Each camp involves between twenty and forty volunteers of whom there are likely to be foreigners if it is an international camp.  The camp leader allocates rooms or houses, as the case may be, to them after welcoming them.  He informs them of the time and place of their first meal, which usually is supper, and requests every camper to be present at the first meeting of the camp, as soon as after supper that first day.

At this meeting, the leader together with the other campers appoint or elect a welfare committee to see to the general welfare for the volunteers and all other matters that go to make camping interesting and successful.  Various committees are also set up to take charge of work, health, food and entertainment.  Leaders of these committees usually form the welfare committee with the camp leader himself as chairman and the home secretary, his vice.  A daily routine time-table is worked out before the meeting ends.  The first two days are usually spent inspecting the project site, assembly tools and equipment, and planning strategies to tackling the project.  Food is usually prepared by the campers themselves on rotational basis. 

A matron is appointed and s/he is assisted daily by one or two orderly to 15 campers.  The office of the orderly rotates among all campers except the camp leader and members of the welfare committee. The task of keeping daily records of events – called ‘logs’ – also rotates amongst campers with the exception of the members of the camp executive.  A ‘log’ should be written out at the close of each day and displayed the following morning for the benefit of the campers.  An example of a log is reproduced and reports of various camp officials in previous camps unedited.