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Volunteers participating in this program will work as health assistants helping the local nurses and doctors take care for patients. You’ll do various activities like taking temperature, blood pressure, observing operations, checking patients and many other duties. Exact work will depend on volunteers’ capacity and skills. Although no previous background is required, volunteers who plan to study medicine or who have already have begun their medical or nursing studies are best suited for this project.
What Difference Does This Project Make?
Nepal faces many challenges. The country is one of the most deprived in the world. Many section of the population aren’t able to afford healthcare while for many service is simply too expensive. There are also fewer medical professionals to look after the people and queues in hospitals and clinics are long and medical professionals overworked. Through our volunteers, we hope to ease the burden on doctors and nurses and provide good treatment to patients who approach our projects.
Program Highlights
Working as assistant to the doctors and nurses, volunteers will experience firsthand medical practices in Nepal. Volunteers will also become involved in awareness generating activities on issues of health and sanitation and learn about diseases and medication system. Our volunteers will live with a host family and this will give them wonderful opportunity to experience local culture.
Project Location
Nepal is a country of matchless beauty. On the northern frontiers bordering Tibet, towering Himalayan draws visitors in thousands every year. As you travel south from there, you’ll pass countless snow fed rivers, deep ravines and gorges, green valleys and panorama of hills after hills. Nepal eventually ends on the flat plans that border India. In these lands, countless ethnic groups with their multitude of language and unique culture thrive. The project is located in Kathmandu, the capital and the largest city in Kathmandu, and also in Chitwan, a small rural town on the south of Nepal. You’ll also be served 3 local meals a day wherever you’ll stay. |
