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Global Volunteers
(http://www.globalvolunteers.org/)
Last Updated: 2/19/2005
375 East Little Canada Rd
St. Paul, MN, 55117
USA
Phone: (800)487-1074
Fax: (651)482-0915
Primary Contact: Volunteer Coordinator (email@globalvolunteers.org)
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Mission:
Global Volunteers enlists health care professionals on one-, two-, and three- week service programs in Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and Europe. Projects in the Cook Islands, Ecuador, Ghana, Romania, Poland and Tanzania particularly offer health-care service opportunities year-around. For instance, in Quito, Ecuador, the organization provides basic health care, rehabilitative services, and medical day care for disabled children, many of whom are poor or abandoned. Special medical teams are also sent to China. Jamaica often seeks dentists. In addition to providing medical assistance, other volunteer work is available such as teaching English, repairing buildings, and nurturing babies.
Specialities of volunteers needed:
Pathology
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Depending on their specialty, dentists, nurses, physicians and medical students are needed to extract teeth, test eyesight and distribute eyeglasses, check blood sugar levels and blood pressures, perform basic physical exams, examine newborns, provide prenatal care and, in some cases, perform outpatient surgeries.
Regions/geographic locale of most projects:
United Kingdom
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Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Ghana, Ecuador, Jamaica, Romania, Tanzania (plus other countries where non-medical personnel can serve).
Religious affiliations:
Christianity
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no
Additional comments:
1-2 week stay is typical
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