http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
Join Unite For Sight’s Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive
global health experience. A transformative volunteer abroad experience
for students and 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
volunteers, coupled with the highest quality healthcare delivery programs with
our partners.
Locations of Year-Round Health Care Delivery: Ghana, Honduras, and
India
(volunteer for 7 days, 15 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10
weeks, or more)
Complete details online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
What do Unite For Sight volunteers do? Our Global Impact
Corps volunteers come from very diverse backgrounds, including those interested
in public health, medicine, international development, social entrepreneurship,
and the social sciences. They work with local doctors to eliminate patient
barriers to 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, volunteers may participate in the Global
Impact Lab, an optional program for those interested in pursuing global health
research. For example, we currently have volunteers pursuing research studies
about medication management, the use of visual resources for patient education,
traditional medicine practices, and patient barriers to care.
What do volunteers 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.” Pallavi Basu, Global Impact Fellow. See
more volunteer accounts at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad/volunteer-accounts