http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
Unite For Sight’s Global Impact Corps is a high-impact immersive global
health experience for students and for professionals. Unite For Sight is
renowned as the highest quality global health immersion and volunteer abroad
program worldwide. Unite For Sight prides itself on offering the best global
health experience for our Global Impact Fellows, coupled with the highest
quality of healthcare delivery programs with our local clinic partners.
What do Global Impact Fellows do? Global Impact Fellows
support and learn from the partner clinics’ talented medical professionals who
are social entrepreneurs addressing complex global health issues. Through
hands-on, structured training, Global Impact Fellows gain a comprehensive
understanding about best practices in global health and social
entrepreneurship. Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become
new leaders in global health, and they receive a Certificate in Global Health
& Program Delivery.
Global Impact Fellows come from very diverse backgrounds, including those
interested in public health, medicine, international development, social
entrepreneurship, and the social sciences. Global Impact Fellows participate
daily with local doctors to eliminate patient barriers to care and to facilitate
comprehensive year-round eye care for patients living in extreme poverty. They
assist with patient education, visual acuity screening, patient intake,
distributing the glasses and medication prescribed by the local eye doctors, and
other important support tasks. They also have the opportunity to observe the
surgeries provided by the local doctors. Additionally, Global Impact Fellows may
participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for those interested
in pursuing global health research. For example, current Global Impact Fellows
are pursuing research studies about medication management, the use of visual
resources for patient education, traditional medicine practices, and patient
barriers to care.
What do Global Impact Fellows say? “I gained a vast basin of
knowledge not only about eye health, but also on the healthcare infrastructure,
patient interactions, and management systems of the developing world. Reading
about health issues in the news or in class became stark reality during my
summer in Dhenkanal, and I now aim to reinvigorate my efforts to study and
contribute to the field of international health. Over the course of my career, I
hope that I can one day return to India as a doctor and remedy the health
inequalities that remain ever-present on a global scale,” Pallavi Basu, Global
Impact Fellow.
“The three weeks I spent volunteering with Unite For Sight as a Global Impact
Fellow in Tamale, Ghana were some of the most interesting and rewarding of my
life, combining the opportunity to learn about life in Ghana, a country new to
me, experience the challenges of improving global health and do concrete, useful
work to help others… I had such a positive experience with Unite For Sight
this past summer. I hope to be able to spread the word about the amazing work
Unite For Sight does by telling people about my experience as a Global Impact
Fellow in Tamale.”–Sophie Brigstocke, Global Impact Fellow.
See more volunteer accounts at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad/volunteer-accounts
Locations of Year-Round Health Care Delivery:
(volunteer for 7
days, 15 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)
- Accra and Kumasi Regions, Ghana
- Northern and Ashanti Regions, Ghana
- Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Patna, India
- Dhenkanal, India
Complete details online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad